Tom Seaver was a professional baseball pitcher who played 20 seasons in Major League Baseball ( #MLB). He played for the New York Mets, Cincinnati Reds, Chicago White Sox, and Boston Red Sox from 1967 to 1986. A longtime Mets, Seaver played a big role within their victory in the 1969 World Series over the Baltimore Orioles. During his 20-year career (1967–86), Seaver, a right-hander, posted a record of 311 wins and 205 losses with a 2.86 run average (ERA). He won quite 20 games during a season f... moreTom Seaver was a professional baseball pitcher who played 20 seasons in Major League Baseball ( #MLB). He played for the New York Mets, Cincinnati Reds, Chicago White Sox, and Boston Red Sox from 1967 to 1986. A longtime Mets, Seaver played a big role within their victory in the 1969 World Series over the Baltimore Orioles. During his 20-year career (1967–86), Seaver, a right-hander, posted a record of 311 wins and 205 losses with a 2.86 run average (ERA). He won quite 20 games during a season five times, led the National League in victories and ERA on three occasions, and won the National League Young Award three times. Seaver also led the National League in strikeouts five times, and his 3,640 career strikeouts rank sixth on the all-time list. His 61 career shutouts during a tie put him for seventh-best (with Nolan Ryan) within the history of big-league baseball. Seaver was the National League Rookie of the Year in 1967 and was selected to the All-Star team 12 times.
Seaver was the catalyst in the transformation of the New York Mets franchise from an expansion team with a losing record in its first seven years of existence to World Series champions in 1969. In that season he won 25 games, lost 7, posted a 2.21 ERA, and won the Young Award. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, in 1992.
Seaver died in his sleep at the age of 75 on August 31, 2020, as a result of complications of Lewy body dementia and COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in California.
