[Amazin69]

Thanks for Mutz! (Sorry I missed your previous note.)

IRL, Len Strelitz was in the middle up his third season of reasonably-steady work in the starting rotation at AA Arkansas. (He would go 9-9, 3.85.) He would progress to AAA Springfield the next year, only to see his career end after two starts in 1981.

Was it an injury? Or did Strelitz's low strikeout rate help the Cardinals to cut him loose at age 25? Don't know. But the St. Louis AI has decided that Len is no worse than some other bullpen options, so he's getting his shot.

Alas, I can not find a single pic of him, so I ask if your yearbook skills can pillage the Temple City (CA) High School archives and dig him up. (Temple City is a neighborhood in LA, right near where the freeways meet.) There's another Strelitz who graduated Temple City High about 30 years later who had 5 seasons as a pro, but he never reached AAA.

Thanks in advance!