Mike Marshall, who set a major league standard for endurance during an iconoclastic but award-winning career, died Tuesday, the team said. In 1974, as the Dodgers’ top relief pitcher, he appeared in 106 games, still the major league record. Only five men in major league history have appeared in 90 games, even once. “Without listening to what I have to say, ‘traditional’ baseball pitching coaches, orthopedic surgeons, biomechanists, general managers and almost everybody else that coaches baseball believe that all baseball pitchers will eventually suffer injuries,” Marshall wrote on his website. But that’s the small-mindedness of Major League Baseball.

Source: Los Angeles Times June 02, 2021 02:32 UTC