{"id":28135,"date":"2014-06-14T21:50:22","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T01:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seamheads.com\/?p=28135"},"modified":"2014-06-14T21:50:22","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T01:50:22","slug":"robin-roberts-im-talking-about-the-pitcher-not-the-newscaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/14\/robin-roberts-im-talking-about-the-pitcher-not-the-newscaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Robin Roberts: I’m Talking About the Pitcher, Not the Newscaster"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey baseball fans!<\/p>\n

The Philadelphia Phillies are in last place in the NL East right now, but they don’t have too much to sob about: they have a couple of great stars like Ryan Howard<\/a><\/strong> and Chase Utley<\/a><\/strong>. This theme of playing badly, but having great players on the roster has been very recurring for the Phillies since their creation. A great example of a guy who played for really bad Phillies teams was Robin Roberts<\/a> <\/strong>(the pitcher, not the Robin Roberts on Good Morning America).<\/p>\n

Robin Evan Roberts played for the Phillies, Orioles, Astros, and Cubs from 1948-1966. He was the ace of the Phillies staff for 14 of those years and was a fan favorite on the mound in the City of Brotherly Love. Roberts won 286 games during his Hall of Fame career, with a lifetime ERA of 3.41. The seven-time All Star led Philadelphia to its first World Series in 35 years in 1950, after going 20-11 during the regular season. He flourished for the next several years, winning 20 or more games from 1950-1955. He even led the league in wins from 1952-1955. From 1950-1956, Robin led the National League in games started in a season six times, complete games in a season five times, innings pitched in a season five times, and strikeouts in a season twice. No wonder he was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1976. But he never won a Cy Young Award, because that award wasn’t given out in the MLB until 1956.<\/p>\n

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Although the Phillies didn’t do too well during the ’50s and early ’60s, at least they had Robin Roberts on their roster. Anyway, thanks for reading this post. I hope you enjoyed it and check back soon for more of “all the buzz on what wuzz.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey baseball fans! The Philadelphia Phillies are in last place in the NL East right now, but they don’t have too much to sob about: they have a couple of great stars like Ryan Howard and Chase Utley. This theme of playing badly, but having great players on the roster has been very recurring for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}