Did you know? Nicknamed "Mr. April" because of his 26-7 record, 2.71 earned run average and 18 complete games in the season's opening month ... did not log a single inning in April for the Boys in Blue despite appearing in 29 games for the club.
Post Game: Worked as a pitching coach at Pepperdine and was head coach at Michigan, his alma-mater, from 1996-to-2001, winning the Big 10 title in 1999 ... works as a motivational speaker and is the owner and operator a of the Master Pitching Institute ,,, was inducted into State of Maryland Athletic HOF in 2011 and the Albuquerque Professional Baseball Hall of Fame in 2013.
Sources: Baseball-Reference; Retrosheet; Los Angeles Times, 4/30/1982; Albuquerque Journal, 7/9/2013; masterpitcing.com, accessed, 5/24/2022.
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