Jim Palmer

Pitcher

Born: October 15, 1945 (age 71)
New York City, New York

Batted: Right

Threw: Right

MLB debut

April 17, 1965, for the Baltimore Orioles

Last MLB appearance

May 12, 1984, for the Baltimore Orioles

MLB statistics

Win–loss record

268–152

Earned run average

2.86

Strikeouts

2,212

Teams

Baltimore Orioles (1965–1984)

Career highlights and awards

6× All-Star (1970–1972, 1975, 1977, 1978)
3× World Series champion (1966, 1970, 1983)
3× AL Cy Young Award (1973, 1975, 1976)
4× Gold Glove Award (1976–1979)
3× AL wins leader (1975–1977)
2× AL ERA leader (1973, 1975)
Pitched no-hitter on August 13, 1969
Baltimore Orioles #22 retired
Baltimore Orioles Hall of Fame

Member of the National

Baseball Hall of Fame

Inducted

1990

Vote

92.6% (first ballot)

James Alvin "Jim" Palmer (born October 15, 1945) is a retired American right-handed pitcher who played all of his 19 years in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the Baltimore Orioles (1965–67, 1969–84) and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1990. Palmer was the winning pitcher in 186 games in the 1970s, the most wins in that decade by any MLB pitcher. He also won at least twenty games in each of eight seasons and received three Cy Young Awards and four Gold Gloves during the decade. His 268 career victories are currently an Orioles record. A six-time American League (AL) All-Star, he was also one of the rare pitchers who never allowed a grand slam in any major league contest.

Palmer appeared in the postseason eight times and was a vital member of three World Series Champions, six AL pennant winners and seven Eastern Division titleholders. He is the only pitcher in the history of the Fall Classic with a win in each of three decades. He is also the youngest to pitch a complete-game shutout in a World Series just nine days short of his 21st birthday in 1966. He was one of the starters on the last rotation to feature four 20-game winners in a single season in 1971.

Since his retirement as an active player in 1984, Palmer has worked as a color commentator on telecasts of MLB games for ABC and ESPN and for the Orioles on Home Team Sports (HTS), Comcast SportsNet (CSN) Mid-Atlantic and the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network (MASN). He has also been a popular spokesman, most famously for Jockey International for almost twenty years. He was nicknamed Cakes in the 1960s because of his habit of eating pancakes for breakfast on the days he pitched.

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