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Roger Moret
Roger Moret (born Rogelio Moret Torres) streaked across the skies of Red Sox Nation during the early 1970s like a comet with a stutter step: often brilliant but sometimes wild. Although he possessed obvious talent, he had some difficulty in harnessing it. Moret’s mound presence was that of a tall, slender – even spindly – left-hander with a whiplike motion and a speedy fastball, mixed in with a decent curve and a good changeup. Once established with the Boston Red Sox in 1973, he alternated two excellent seasons with a mediocre one. Still, he was able to compile an admirable cumulative ERA (3.43) and a 41-18 record with the Red Sox, ranking him among the best pitchers of the decade for the Bostons. He led the American League in winning percentage in 1975 and just missed in 1973. Then he went away, traded first by the Red Sox then, slowly and tragically, leaving baseball and sliding into the dark morass of mental illness. - SABR
A psychiatrist in San Juan who had been treating Moret diagnosed him with chronic undifferentiated schizophrenia, citing that the pressure of playing major-league baseball contributed to his problems. Sadly, his bio is filled with moments when a more capable medical community should have taken issues more seriously and addressed them sooner before things worsened. Instead the papers would sensationalize and ridicule Moret for incidents that should have been flashing red indicators for help.
My recollections of Moret were with the mustache he had most of his career, so that's why I redid it. Nothing wrong per se with the current fg.
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