Saturday, March 16, 2013

Goose Gossage MLB Hall of Fame 2008

Richard (Goose) Gossage was inducted into the MLB Hall of Fame Class of 2008 along with Barney Dreyfuss, Bowie Kuhn, Walter O'Malley. Billy Southworth and Dick Williams. Gossage was a RHP with 22 seasons MLB experience playing with the Chicago White Sox (1972-1976), Pittsburgh Pirates (1977), New York Yankees (1978-1983, 1989), San Diego Padres (1984-1987), Chicago Cubs (1988), San Francisco Giants (1989), Texas Rangers (1991), Oakland Athletics (1992-1993) and Seattle Mariners (1994). For his MLB career he was 124-107 with a 3.01 ERA, 152 K, 1.23 WHIP, 310 SV, 16 complete games in 1809.1 IP over 1002 games. 

I believe  his three best seasons were 1981 when he was 3-2 with a  0.77 ERA, 48 K, 0.77 WHIP, 20 SV in 46.2 IP over 32 games, 1977 when he was 11-9 with a 1.62 ERA, 151 K, 0.95 WHIP, 26 SV in 133.0 IP over 72 games and 1985 when he was 5-3 with a 1.82 ERA, 52 K, 1.02 WHIP, 26 SV in 79.0 IP over 50 games.

Gossage led the American League in saves in 1975 (26), 1978 (27) and 1980 (33).

He was an All Star nine times (1975-1979, 1980-1982, 1984-1985).  Gossage won the World Series Championship with the Yankees in 1978.

Hall of Fame page

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