Jonathan Trumpbour Matlack was born on January 19,1950 and is an American former professional baseball player and coach.
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15 Facts About Jon Matlack
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Jon Matlack played in Major League Baseball as a left-handed pitcher from 1971 through 1983 for the New York Mets and the Texas Rangers.
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Jon Matlack was just 17 years old when the Mets drafted him as the fourth overall pick in the 1967 Major League Baseball draft out of Henderson High School in the West Chester Area School District of Pennsylvania.
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Jon Matlack's rise to stardom began in 1968 with the Raleigh-Durham Mets.
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Jon Matlack was in line for a victory in his second career start against the St Louis Cardinals until the wheels came off in the seventh.
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Jon Matlack ended up winning fourteen games for the National League champion Mets.
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Jon Matlack won game four, giving up just one run in eight innings.
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Jon Matlack was an All-Star for the Mets for the next three seasons, sharing MVP honors in the 1975 game with Bill Madlock.
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Jon Matlack was dealt from the Mets to the Texas Rangers in the first four-team blockbuster deal in Major League Baseball history on December 8,1977, that involved the Atlanta Braves, Pittsburgh Pirates and a total of 11 players changing teams.
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Jon Matlack rebounded to make 34 starts in 1980, one of which was on August 19, when he held George Brett, who was batting over.
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On January 28,2020, the Mets announced that Jon Matlack will be inducted into the New York Mets Hall of Fame on May 17 in a ceremony at Citi Field.
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Jon Matlack coached in the Chicago White Sox organization before he was hired as the Detroit Tigers' major league pitching coach in 1996.
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Jon Matlack was later hired as their minor league pitching coordinator.
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Jon Matlack spent the 2012 season as the minor league pitching coordinator for the Houston Astros.
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Jon Matlack's parents married on July 5,1947, in Saugerties, New York, and he had four younger siblings: Deborah, Gail, Timothy and Andrew.
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