Randy O’Neal
started his major league pitching career as a member of the 1984 Tigers. He and
Roger Mason were the two hot prospect pitchers brought up when the roster
expanded in September. He made his debut in relief of Roger Mason. Roger had
gotten himself in trouble against the Orioles. He was down 3-0 after four
innings. Randy came in and pitched three innings and only gave up one hit.
However, Roger still got the loss. Randy then got in three more games starting
all three and went 2-1 with a 3.38 ERA. He beat the Brewers twice and lost to
the Yankees on the last day of the season. In 1985 he was in a few more games
going 5-5 with a 3.24 ERA. In 1986 he was our number 6 starter and also made a
few relief appearances. He was 3-7 but his ERA increased to 4.33. Before the
1987 season started he was traded to the Braves with Chuck Cary for Freddy
Tiburcio (who never made it to the bigs) and Terry Harper. Randy was a big
leaguer for parts of 7 seasons. His career totals were 17-19 with a 4.35 ERA.
Steve Baker made his major league debut as a
Tiger pitcher in 1978. In his debut he started against the Orioles and left in
the seventh inning with the game tied 1-1. John Hiller came in in relief and
gave up a homer to Lee May to lose the game 2-1. But Steve got the win against
Baltimore a week later for his first decision and went on to start 8 more games
and beat the Orioles once more and lost once to them. He also lost to the
Yankees twice and the Red Sox. His final totals for the season was a 2-4 record
with a 4.55 ERA. In 1979 he was with the Tigers again and went 1-7 with a 6.64
ERA. The Tiges did not bring him up again after that and he was sold to the
Blue Jays thus ending his career with the Tiger organization. He did pitch in
the majors in 1982 and 1983 for the Athletics and the Cardinals. His final
totals for his major league career were a 7-16 record and a 5.13 ERA.
Steve Partenheimer played his entire major league career in
Detroit. He was the team captain at
Amherst College where he played for 4 years.
He graduated in 1913 and signed with the Tigers. He was brought straight to the Tigers and
made his major league debut at third base in a game against the St. Louis
Browns on June 28, 1913. He started at
third in place of George Moriarty the regular third baseman. Steve made three plate appearances that day
and got on base once after being hit by a pitch. In the field he made three assists and one
error. At the end of the game the 21
year olds major league career was over.
Steve did have two sons that played professional baseball. His son Hal played minor league ball and his
son Stan had a major league career that lasted nine times as long as his dad’s.
Pol Perritt ended his major league career with the Tigers in
1921. He had started his career in 1912
with the Cardinals. He played three
years for the Cardinals with his best season being 1914 when went 16-13 with a
2.36 ERA. He was sent to the Giants of
New York before the 1915 season for Bob Bescher and cash. For the Giants he did well through 1918
winning 12, 18, 17, 18 games each year.
However, in 1919 the wheels came off Pol’s career. He went 1-1 in 1919 and was only in 11 games. In 1920 it was worse as he went 0-0 in 8
games. Finally in 1921 the Giants sold
him to the Tigers in June after Pol pitched in only 5 games. In Detroit he made four appearances and won
one game. He went started and with the
rules of the day won on three innings pitched against the White Sox. He gave up 3 runs on 5 hits but his opponent,
Dickie Kerr gave up 7 runs on 8 hits.
Pol was done with the majors after 1921 having never won another game.
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