What a card: Sixto Lezcano signed as a free agent with the Pirates on Jan. 22, 1985 after two seasons with the Phillies.
How'd that go: Uh ... Lezcano came to bat just 116 times in 1985 and batted .207. He was released by the Pirates in April 1986 and that was it for his 12-year MLB career.
Backatya: Lezcano's 1980 season is a shame because I think if he did as well that year as he done the previous three seasons, he could have stayed with the Brewers his whole career.
Back-to-back: On his Traded card, Lezcano appears to be displaying the wood-chopping motion that he used prior to the pitcher delivering the pitch.
Also, this is the second straight Pirates card featured, the third in the last nine posts and the sixth in the Traded set. The Pirates were plenty busy in 1985, not that it helped them much.
The flagship card in No. 556 and was originally blogged on July 21, 2016.
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I love that Scott Van Pelt has kept Sixto's name alive by using his Maryland accent while pronouncing it to get Tim K. giggling.
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