For sure he was a junkballer and a nibbler of the corner strike zone.....but also a highly suspected doctorer of the baseball.... pitch speed impressed nobody but won games 121 of them in all....A rookie for the Reds in 1971, a bright spot in a most disappointing year.... Retooled and healthier the Reds resurge to WS....Grimsley chips 14 wins good for second the squad....part of a commune of starters.....won 3 games in post season 2 in the series in a losing effort....One more year in the Queen city and is traded to Baltimore....delivers an excellent 1974 .....stays 3 more years and tests the newly created free agent market....Took to the North as a Montreal Expo raking in $1.1 million ....Sported a career year with 20 wins in 1978, good for second in the NL to another “creative” hurler Gaylord Perry....Only Expo to reach the 20 game mark....lost effectiveness thereafter....ERA ran up by 2 runs a game resulting in only 10 wins in 1979.....even worse in 1980 splitting the year between the Expos and Indians ERA growing by another run a game....Sat out 1981....made a slight comeback with the Orioles in 1982 but was relegated to mostly insignificant mop up work....Turned to coaching after quitting the mound....sported extremely long curly locks paired with pale blue eyes exuded an exotic quality to or the nickname crazy eyes to detractors....might have a ruse to hide foreign substances....He and Gaylord Perry would make for an interesting conversation....a cross between Jared Leto and Mr. Kotter.
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