It is John Mayberry’s 74th birthday. Mayberry was drafted in the 1st round (6th pick overall) in the 1967 amateur draft. The number 1 pick that year was by the Yankees, Ron Blomberg, so the Astros...
Mayberry was drafted in the 1st round in the 1967 amateur draft. The number 1 pick that year was by the Yankees, Ron Blomberg, so the Astros could have done much worse. Ted Simmons and Bobby Grich were the only players picked in the first round who were clearly better than John.
To understand what happened, you have to understand a little about baseball and the world in general in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s. In the 1990s and 2000s, baseball’s biggest problem/scandal was performance-enhancing drugs. In the 70s and 80s, it was non-performance-enhancing drugs. “ Mayberry dragged in real late, but I put him on first base anyway, which was my big mistake”. Mayberry had a bad game, dropping pop-ups and striking out. Herzog asked him what was wrong. “The man couldn’t even talk, and I knew what was wrong....It must have been a hell of a party”.A few years later Whitey would make the same sort of trade as manager of the St. Louis Cardinals. Keith Hernandez was a terrific first baseman, but Whitey publicly stated that he didn’t like Keith’s work ethic.
In 1979 John played in 137 games, hit .274/.372/.461 with 21 homers and 74 RBI. And in 1980, he hit .248/.349/.473 with 30 home runs, 6th most in the AL and 82 RBI. So he was a very productive player for the Jays, if not quite a superstar. I was pretty young when he played for the Jays but my memory of him was a smiling, happy, big man. He was great in interviews and seemed to take to the role of trying to sell baseball to the people of Toronto and Canada. I’m sure it wouldn’t have been easy to be happy. When he was traded the Royals were one of the best teams in the AL and the Jays were one of the worst teams in the league.Mayberry was ranked as the 49th best first baseman in Bill James’ Historical Baseball Abstract.
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