Mike Wilner: John Olerud almost didn’t sign. Jesse Barfield nearly struck out as a hitter. Now both ex-Jays are Hall of Famers
five years later — was the team’s first home run champion but thought he might never get the call.
A ninth-round draft pick in the Jays’ inaugural season of 1977, Barfield was bird-dogged by franchise legend Bobby Mattick, who had gone to a high school game in Joliet, Ill. to scout pitcher Bill Gullickson. Mattick came back and told Pat Gillick, then assistant general manager, that Gullickson was good but he liked this kid Barfield better.“He was a second away from being possibly a pitcher,” Moseby said on this week’s episode of the Star’s “Deep Left Field” podcast.
Barfield and Moseby were inseparable to the point where veteran first baseman John Mayberry, the first Jay ever to hit 30 home runs in a season, called Barfield “Bake-field.” Moseby was nicknamed Shaker, so Big John called them “Shake and Bake.”
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