RIP Don Sutton, 1945-2021

[G-Fafif]

The Hall of Fame righty who won 300+ games dies at 75.

[batmagadanleadoff]

You must be well-connected. Did the Sutton family contact you first? Because I can't find a single news article on this event.

[G-Fafif]

[Benjamin Grimm]

Hall of Famers are dying in droves lately.

[MFS62]

I mostly remember the curly hair flowing from under his cap.

RIP

One LA player I didn't dislike (too much).

Later

[Frayed Knot]

Turned into a reasonably good announcer too after his playing days were up.

Did Braves games for a while then seemed to float around after that. No frills, but solid.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Traded for Tom Seaver once but it turned out to be fake News.



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[batmagadanleadoff]

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Too bad. The Mets would've been better off with Sutton than with Flynn, et. al. Not that it would've made a meaningful difference given how dreadful the post Seaver-to-the-Reds Joel Youngblood Mets were.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

This fake deal was spring 76 and planted as Mets' leverage to get Seaver to agree to a new contract. Word was it Sutton and either Joe Furguson or John Hale, reserve outfielder and .214 career hitter for Sutton. Sutton also required re-signing and as the above article mentions had the right to veto.

[seawolf17]

Sutton is one of those guys like Fergie Jenkins, Yaz, Rusty, and heck, even Koosman and Seaver that I first remember being *really old* when I discovered baseball in the early 80s, and only after some time realized how good they really were.

[Edgy MD]

Yeah I was watching before then and the two periods of his career that I recall are the gray-haired period and the white-haired period.



I know there was a brown time before that, but he sure lasted a while as an old guy. I tend to think that old-guy hair of his helped lead to the foot-dragging on inducting him.