Sunday, January 27, 2019

Bert Roberge


Bert Roberge was a major league relief pitcher from 1979 to 1986, for the Astros, White Sox, and Expos. He first played in the minor leagues in 1976 after finishing up at the University of Maine. He was a reliever from the very beginning, and in his eleven years as a professional he only started four games, all in the minors. He made it to the majors with the 1979 Astros and had easily his best major league season, with a 1.69 ERA in 26 games (his next-lowest mark was 3.44 in 1985, and his major league career ERA was 3.98). He was good at not giving up home runs, allowing one every twenty innings for his big league career. Despite pitching mostly in the National League, he only batted ten times in the majors: six strikeouts, one GIDP, one sacrifice hit, and two other outs. But the main thing I remember about Bert is his odd-looking 1980 Topps baseball card, which looks like they took a black and white photo of him and colored it.

https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/R/Probeb001.htm
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/roberbe01.shtml
http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/profile.asp?ID=17199

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