Eddie Watt
Eddie Watt was born in Lamoni, Iowa, United States on April 4th, 1941 and is the Baseball Player. At the age of 83, Eddie Watt biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Eddie Dean Watt (born in Lamoni, Iowa) is an American former professional baseball player.
He played in Major Leagues from 1966 to 1975, most notable as a member of the Baltimore Orioles dynasty, winning three consecutive American League pennants from 1969 to 1971 and 1970.
He has also played for the Philadelphia Phillies and the Chicago Cubs.
Watt was inducted into the Baltimore Orioles Hall of Fame in 2000.
Baseball career
Watt played in just 13 games out of a total of 411, all during his rookie season. For the 1966 World Series Champion Orioles, he was 2-5 as a starter and 7-2 with 4 saves. He did not appear in any of the Los Angeles Dodgers' four World Series games. Jim Palmer, Wally Bunker, and Dave McNally all pitched complete games, and the team needed only one relief appearance, which Moe Drabowsky had produced in historic fashion.
The Orioles captured the American League pennant in 1969, but the New York Mets beat them in the World Series. Watt set a career-high 16 saves and a career-low 1.65 earned run average in 71 innings, a Baltimore's 109–53 regular season record.
Watt was a vital part of Baltimore's 1970 Championship season, but it wasn't one of his best seasons statistically speaking. In 53 appearances, he played 7 games and saved 12 with a 3.25 ERA. In Game 4 of the 1970 World Series, he was the losing pitcher in the Orioles' 6–5 loss to the Cincinnati Reds. He entered the contest in honor of Jim Palmer, who had allowed a walk to Tony Pérez and a single to Johnny Bench to open the eighth inning with the Orioles leading 5–3. Lee May's first pitch to left field kept the Orioles from sweeping the Series, which it would win the following day. Watt had not pitched in a game in the previous two weeks.
Watt relieved starter Dave McNally for the last two innings in Game 1 of the 1971 American League Championship Series versus the Oakland Athletics, earning a save. The Orioles will sweep the Athletics, eventually facing the Pittsburgh Pirates in the Fall Classic of that year, where Watt will make relief appearances in Games 3 and 4.
During seven seasons of pitching primarily in relief for Baltimore, he was highly effective. He made 46 appearances, 67 innings, and 10 saves in a span of 2.40 years from 1967 to 1973, with a median of 46 runs, 67 innings, and ten saves.
Watt was purchased by the Philadelphia Phillies on December 7, 1973, for $70,000. In 1974, he appeared in 42 games for the Phillies, going 1–1 with 6 saves and a 3.99 ERA. He was released by Philadelphia about an hour before Opening Day in 1975 and the Chicago Cubs briefly played for a short time in 1976. He spent most of the season with the Wichita Aeros of the American Association.
In 411 games played, 38–36 players were scored, 13 games were launched, 1 complete game was played, 80 saves, and an ERA of 2.91. He took up 37 home runs, an average of around one per 18 innings, and had a mediocre WHIP of 1.188. In 100 at bats, he had a batting average of.190, with three home runs, including Johnny Podres, Frank Kreutzer, and Sam McDowell.