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Originally posted by OldGiants
IHow is Mel Roach doing in your league? Not only was Mel my very first baseball card in 1958, but I later worked with him at the Bank of Virginia. Not a nice man, it saddens me to say. Very bitter about the leg break that ended his career, even 30 years later.
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He wont like his HOB2 career:
Drafted in the fourth round by Pittsburgh in 1953, Mel spent most of the next 5 years in Tulsa of the Class A Western League. He did a call-up to the big club in September of 1954 and got the first of his 4 career major league hits off of the Cubs Johnny Antonelli.
His only other major league time came in September of 1957. The Pirates released him in May of 1958 but the Dodgers signed him a week later and he has split his time between A and AA ball ever since. He is still just 29 so he may get a little more big league playing time. In 1962 he posted some decent numbers for the Class AA El Paso Sun Kings of the newly formed Texas League.
Year Ag Tm Lg G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS XR
+-------------+----+-----+----+----+---+---+----+----+----+---+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+------+
1953 20 A 147 561 68 204 21 4 17 88 3 0 41 99 .364 .407 .506 .913 105.0
1954 21 PIT NL 9 14 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 .143 .200 .143 .343 -0.9
1954 21 A 120 452 64 144 22 1 15 64 0 3 36 79 .319 .369 .471 .840 73.2
1955 22 A 153 607 83 206 28 1 15 88 0 1 36 125 .339 .376 .463 .839 97.2
1956 23 A 154 633 79 226 36 1 13 79 1 0 37 118 .357 .393 .479 .871 107.4
1957 24 PIT NL 16 20 2 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 6 .100 .143 .150 .293 -0.8
1957 24 A 111 463 78 160 27 2 10 66 0 1 39 108 .346 .396 .477 .874 80.3
1958 25 A 155 615 99 223 54 1 18 90 5 0 45 118 .363 .406 .541 .948 119.4
1959 26 AA 63 228 35 69 14 0 6 30 0 1 11 40 .303 .335 .443 .778 31.4
1959 26 A 87 358 47 123 20 0 7 36 3 1 28 74 .344 .391 .458 .849 59.7
1960 27 AA 150 561 62 155 36 0 11 74 3 2 26 92 .276 .308 .399 .708 65.5
1961 28 AA 100 344 40 89 25 0 7 55 0 1 21 57 .259 .301 .392 .694 38.9
1961 28 A 45 185 29 57 13 0 7 32 0 0 7 35 .308 .333 .492 .825 28.0
1962 29 AA 142 568 74 154 31 0 16 73 5 2 34 92 .271 .312 .410 .723 70.9
1962 29 A 19 81 12 26 2 0 5 14 1 0 2 22 .321 .337 .531 .868 13.7
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2 Years Sim 25 34 2 4 1 0 0 2 0 0 2 6 .118 .167 .147 .314 -1.7
4 Years AA 455 1701 211 467 106 0 40 232 8 6 92 281 .275 .309 .407 .717 206.8
9 Years A 991 3955 559 1369 223 10 107 557 13 6 271 778 .346 .386 .489 .875 683.8
Total Minors 1446 5656 770 1836 329 10 147 789 21 12 363 1059 .325 .363 .464 .827 890.6