Gaylord Perry pitched at least 280 innings every season from 1967-75, surpassing 300 six times. The grease-baller’s workload had dipped below 251 innings in each of his two full years with the Texas Rangers when a team that had never posted a winning record traded for the Hall-of-Fame-bound 39-year-old.
The move to San Diego suited Perry just fine.
“I didn’t pitch as much as I wanted to last year,” Perry told the San Diego Union leading up to the 1978 season. “I’m used to pitching 300 innings a season.”
Perry didn’t quite get there in San Diego.