Join our linker program. Part of the deal was that Short, knowing Clyde would sell tickets, wanted him to make two big-league starts before going to the minors. Logos were compiled by the amazing SportsLogos.net. They averaged 8,610 spectators at Arlington Stadium in 1972, and even fewer were showing up in 1973. Traded to the Cleveland Indians in 1978, he was 8-11 and then 3-4 before he damaged a rotator cuff. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. In 1978, David set highs for innings pitched (153 1/3), starts (25) and complete games (5). Copyright 1999- David Clyde weighed 180 lbs (81 kg) when playing. David Clyde Trades and Transactions. Former Teacher at Arlington ISD. He did win that big league debut against Minnesota, giving up just one hit, a two-run home run, but also walking seven in five innings of a 4-3 victory. Clyde joined the Rangers on the road and was thrust into action on the teams next homestand. Get scores, news and notes in your inbox every day. It's also available for football, basketball and hockey. His sophomore season included a perfect game against the defending state champions.4 Pitching for the Westchester American Legion squad that summer, he allowed only four runs in 83 innings while racking up 150 strikeouts.5 As a junior in 1972, Clyde amassed a 17-1 record which included three no-hitters and four one-hitters. Id have been happy with a $500 raise, Clyde said, looking back. Copyright 2000-2023 Sports Reference LLC. The solemn reality was that the Dallas-Fort Worth area was gaga over the Cowboys and the lame antics of a last-place baseball team were not inflaming fan response, wrote beat writer Mike Shropshire in his book Seasons in Hell. [13] In a 2003 interview with The New York Times, Herzog criticized Bob Short, stating that "(Short) sure wasn't going to send him down without getting some people in the ballpark to see him. His best performance of the season was a complete game win versus the Royals on July 9. The SPORTS REFERENCE and STATHEAD trademarks are owned exclusively by Sports Reference LLC. Just to show they appreciated what I did.27 He spent the offseason taking journalism courses at Texas A&M University and married his high school sweetheart, Cheryl Crawford. Total Zone Rating and initial framework for Wins above Replacement calculations provided by Sean Smith. After walking the first two batters, Clyde struck out the side, pitched five innings and was credited with the 4-3 victory. Bob Short, the man who moved the Washington Senators to Texas and formed the Rangers, devised a plan to bring left-hander David Clyde from high school ball directly to the major leagues. 7 Bill Hunt, Things Did Get Worse, Corpus Christi Times, June 11, 1972: 39. Now he had a big league contract, a full house and an. In other words, Clyde didn't fit in Martin's vision. Do you have a blog? He made 18 starts, pitched 93 1/3 innings and finished 4-8 with a 5.01 ERA. A Virginia high school girls' basketball coach is under investigation after an altercation with a spectator during a game last week. Journalists criticized the Rangers for promoting Clyde too soon, and after an uneventful 1974 campaign, he developed shoulder trouble and was sent down to the minor leagues in 1975, where he pitched three seasons. [3], Clyde began the 1974 season with a 30 record,[9] then became embroiled in controversy following a dispute between new manager Billy Martin and general manager Bobby Brown. 14 Whitey Herzog and Jonathan Pitts, Youre Missin a Great Game (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999), 169. More David Clyde Pages at Baseball Reference. Forty years ago Thursday, Clyde made the jump from pitching for Westchester High School in Houston to pitching in the big leagues, starting for the Texas Rangers against the Minnesota Twins just 19 days after receiving his high-school diploma. Much of the play-by-play, game results, and transaction information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. Clyde's nephew, Garrett Clyde, was drafted by the Chicago Cubs in 2007. A crowd of 23,102 turned out on July 17 and watched the Brewers batter the southpaw for five runs on 11 hits in seven innings. 33 David Clydes Future Very Much in Question, Naples Daily News, March 14, 1975: 60. Home plate umpire Bill Deegan told reporters that Clydes fastball was better than the heater of one of the games other top young armsVida Blue.20, Despite Clydes handful of competitive starts, the consensus from an informal survey of managers and executives was that he would benefit from time in the minors.21 Some believed he lacked a formidable off-speed arsenal to keep hitters honest and needed work on his pickoff move and infield defense. Art Fowlers job was to get drunk with Billy on the road, recalled Shropshire. Clyde lost 21 pounds while recuperating and reported to camp three weeks late, a delay which sealed his demotion to the minor leagues for the first time in his career.34 By then, he had time to reflect on his whirlwind two seasons in the big leagues. In addition to being in the skippers doghouse, Clyde received no instruction from his pitching coach, Art Fowler, who had replaced Estrada. Several months earlier, Clyde had been busy worrying about prom night or helping Westchester High School win a state championship. Clydes standout ability to throw a baseball was evident early on. It came at a cost, however. The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball, Note, this is done in an automated way, so we apologize for any errors, & please. ''Short sure wasn't going to send him down without getting some people in the ballpark to see him. [2] He played in 28 games (21 starts) and finished with 39 record, and a 4.38 ERA. It's also available for football, basketball and hockey. 24 Mike Shropshire, Birds Soaring High on Doomsday Defense, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, August 28, 1973: 18. 31 Merron, The Riseand Fall of a Phenom.. The Rangers held the lead when Clyde departed, and Bill Gogolewski pitched the final four frames to secure the rookies first win. 46 4 Cleveland Players Hit Homers to Back David Clydes 5-Hitter, Lima (Ohio) News, July 10, 1979: 16. He threw out the first ball to Ken Suarez, his catcher that night 30 years ago, when he was the kid left-hander who couldn't miss. "It was the dumbest thing you could ever do," he said. By then, Martin had been replaced by Frank Lucchesi. When he pitched seven strong innings in a 5-4 triumph over Detroit, Short decreed that Clyde stay with the Rangers. 3137 Clyde Park Ave SW , Wyoming, MI 49509-2982 is a single-family home listed for-sale at $209,900. [7] However, with his performance in the two starts, the Rangers dropped all plans to send him to the minors. Martin wanted to send him to Spokane for two starts to build his confidence, but new team president Dr. Bobby Brown overruled him.29 Instead, Martin kept Clyde on the bench for 10 days. The one hit was a two-run homer by Mike Adams. Three more boys (Michael, Steve, and Henry) followed. By Joe Nick Patoski. He was the same pitcher in 1979 that he was in Texas, not much of a breaking ball, not much of a changeup, recalled Cleveland teammate Toby Harrah years later. Herzog was fired on September 7 and replaced with Billy Martin, who had become available after being canned by Detroit. 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Meanwhile, he had a new manager to impress. Herzog had been hired away the previous offseason from the New York Mets, for whom his job had been overseeing a farm system that was rich in pitching, having produced the likes of Tom Seaver, Nolan Ryan, Jerry Koosman, Tug McGraw and Gary Gentry. Clyde, who was selected No. It was a tragedy.''. 555 N. Central Ave. #416 [11] Prior to Clyde's debut, the highest crowd in Rangers history was 24,000. 15 Galyn Wilkins, Slow Crowd, Fast Arms Clydes Big Night, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, June 29, 1973: 27. We have tools and resources that can help you use sports data. Billed as the next Sandy Koufax, Clyde had a stellar high school career at Westchester High School. vs. MIN 5.0 IP, 1 H, 8 SO, 7 BB, 2 ER, W, Last Game: Looking back, it may have been better if I had gone right into the minors after school, said Clyde at the time. He pitched nine times the next season, 1979, went 3-4 with a 5.91 ERA, and tore his rotator cuff, ending his big league career. High School: Westchester High School (Houston, TX) College: None Attended . [1] After a poor start in which he walked the first two batters he faced, he settled down, pitched five innings, giving up only one hit (a home run to Mike Adams) while striking out eight batters in a 43 victory over the Minnesota Twins. "They were trying to get enthusiasm," said Davey Nelson, the starting second baseman for the Rangers in Clyde's debut. It was about a franchise, not a young man's career. According to my calculations, on the extra gate receipts alone, in two starts Ill make back David Clydes entire goddamn signing bonus, remarked Short.18 Clyde breezed through the first four innings while striking out five and facing the minimum. He enjoyed the relative obscurity of the minors and being able to work on his control and off-speed pitches without the winning pressure of the big leagues.36 In 22 starts, he compiled a 12-8 record, 3.07 ERA, 131 strikeouts, and 94 walks in 161 innings. Plucked from a high school in nearby Houston, he had merely been 18-0 with a 0.18 ERA in 148 innings as a senior with five no-hitters. This biography was reviewed by Rory Costello and David Bilmes and fact-checked by David Kritzler. We have tools and resources that can help you use sports data. Off the field, Clyde spent freely and partied excessively in an attempt to fit in with his older teammates. Clyde felt well enough to return in mid-May, but Cleveland had no room on its roster and kept him sidelined.44 He was finally activated on June 1 after his agent, Dick Moss, threatened to file a complaint with the Major League Players Association.45 Clyde pitched one inning in mop-up duty on June 15 and did not appear again until joining the Indians starting rotation on June 30. Part of the Baseball Almanac Family, Last-Modified: January 1, 2023 8:51 AM EST. But it took him six more starts to win again. He had been billed as the second coming of Sandy Koufax and signed for an $125,000 bonus and a free college education. But it turned out to be a fairy tale without a happy ending. He was roughed up by the Milwaukee Brewers in his next outing but then rebounded to throw six innings of two-run ball against the Red Sox at Fenway Park. "The franchise needed a jolt.''. Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction? Following his nine years in the limelight of professional baseball, Clyde went to work with his father-in-law at McCauley Lumber Company in Tomball, Texas, a small town 40 miles outside of Houston. Through eight starts, he compiled a 3-3 record with a 3.31 ERA and 44 strikeouts in 49 innings. [9], Following the problems Clyde had during the 1974 and 1975 seasons, he became dependent on alcohol, which he later called "the lowest point of my life". High School: Westchester HS (Houston, TX), School: Texas A&M University (College Station, TX), Debut: The Rangers planned to have Clyde pitch his first two professional games in the major leagues before moving him down to the minor leagues,[1] but Rangers owner Bob Short decided to keep him in the roster for monetary purposes, where he had a 5.01 earned run average in 18 starts. [5][8], Clyde started for the Indians that year, playing in 28 games and finished with a record of 811, with a 4.28 ERA and 83 strikeouts. His career was sacrificed for a franchise.". All logos are the trademark & property of their owners and not Sports Reference LLC. Much of the play-by-play, game results, and transaction information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. However, he quite simply ranks as statistically the greatest pitcher in high school history. Theres been some confusion over the years on that, said Clyde in 2003. He won three or four games right away, and every time he pitched at home, wed draw 25,000 extra people. He's the kid pitcher who went directly from Houston's Westchester High School to the show. Twenty days after pitching in the state finals . Clyde pitched well in his only appearance, a start versus California on September 17 in which he took a three-hit shutout into the eighth before his own throwing error contributed to three runs and a Rangers defeat. Clyde High School 2022 Rankings. The Phillies, who had the second pick, sent scout Lou Fitzgerald to evaluate Clyde. One reporter calculated that Clydes 11 home starts in 1973taking into account extra ticket sales, parking, and concessionsnetted Short an estimated $528,000.26 Yet, when it came time to sign a contract for the 1974 season, Clyde was offered the same base salary he received the year before. Find out more. By then, his fastball velocity had dipped to the 87-88 range, but he still found success.52 In 10 appearances (seven starts), he won all six of his decisions and recorded a 0.76 ERA, thereby earning a promotion to Triple-A Tucson, which had become an Astros affiliate. It made me a very outspoken person.''. In addition to a son (Ryan) from his second marriage, Clyde had two children (Reed and Lauren) from his third marriage to the former Robin McCauley, a union which ultimately ended in divorce. Eleven days later, he shone again, allowing two runs (one earned) on seven hits at Memorial Stadium to defeat the Baltimore Orioles. The numbers, however, that caught the attention of Short was tickets sold. Just before the start of the 1974 season, Short sold the Rangers to a team of investors led by plastic pipe manufacturer Brad Corbett at a price tag of $9.6 million plus the assumption of $1 million in debt.28 Meanwhile, Clyde went to spring training without the assurance of a roster spot but impressed Martin enough to make the opening day roster. I was presented with the opportunity to settle for 50 cents on the dollar or roll the dice. 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