Jarrod Patterson made his major league debut as a Tiger in
2001. He was a 27 year old rookie third
baseman. He made it into 13 games and
had 43 plate appearances. He got 11 hits
with a double a triple and two homers.
That gave him a .268 average. His
slugging was a .488 clip. The problem
was he was a worse fielder than starter Jose Macias who also hit .268 and he
was a worse hitter than back up Shane Halter who fielded the same as Jarrod but
hit .020 higher. So Jarrod stayed a
tiger until the end of the 2002 season (which he spent in Toledo) when he was
granted free agency. He then signed with
the Royals. He got in another 13 games
with the Royals where he hit .182. He
never made it back to the bigs after that.
Tom Matchick was a Tiger for three years but one was the
great Tiger year of 1968. He got in 80
games that year as a shortstop mainly, but also as a second baseman and even a
game at first. He hit .203 that year but
that was better than starting shortstop Ray Oyler’s .135. But Tom’s defense was not as good at
Ray’s. Tom did get into the World Series
in 1968 and in three games he made three plate appearances without a hit. By the end of the 1969 season it was clear
that the Tigers could use Tom Tresh or Mickey Stanley or Dick Tracewski or even
Cesar Gutierrez at short and Tom was not needed. So at the end of the 1969 season the Tiges
sent Tom to the Red Sox for Dalton Jones.
Tom played only two more years in the majors with the Royals, Brewers
and Orioles.
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