Kipper was obviously not turning into the dominant starting pitcher the Bucs had hoped for, and in 1988, he was moved to the bullpen. In 1987, he had similar but worse numbers, 5-9, 5.94 in 24 games, covering 110 2/3 innings. The 6 wins would be his career high, just like the 114 innings he pitched that year. The Pirates inserted Bob in their starting rotation in 1986 and he went 6-8, 4.03 in 20 games, including 19 starts. His first big league win came on September 22nd, when he gave up 3 runs over 8 1/3 innings in defeating the Mets, 5-3. He was brought up to Pittsburgh when rosters expanded in September and was 1-2, 5.11 in 5 games, including 4 starts. In the immediate, he simply switched teams in the Pacific Coast League, from Edmonton to the Hawaii Islanders, and was a combined 3-0, 1.99 between the two. Clements and Brown turned out to be useful players for a short spell, but it was Kipper who had the longest career of the three in the big leagues. The three players they got back were all quite promising in addition to Kipper, there was reliever Pat Clements and OF Mike Brown. By June of 1985 they knew it was time to start afresh, thus their motivation for dealing three of those veterans, Ps John Candelaria and Al Holland and OF George Hendrick, to the Angels in return for some young talent. They had tried to prop up the few players left from that team with some aging veterans, to no avail. The Pirates at the time had realized that they could no longer try to stretch the remnants of the 1979 World Series-winning team any further. He pitched only one game there before he was traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates on June 7th. Kipper then pitched for the AA Midland Angels, going 3-3, 3.08 in 9 starts, and was moved up to the AAA Edmonton Trappers. He made his debut on April 12th, in a relief appearance against the Oakland Athletics, but he was hit hard the same thing happened in his next outing, on April 23rd, against the same A's, and the Angels sent him down as he had given up 8 runs in 3 1/3 innings. In any case, the Angels thought they had a budding superstar on their hands, and inspired by the success of Dwight Gooden at a very young age with the New York Mets the previous season, rushed Bob to the majors, having him start the 1985 season in the American League. His K/W ratio, however, was relatively modest, at 98/65. He had an outstanding season for the Redwood Pioneers of the California League in 1984, going 18-8, 2.04 in 26 starts. Information gathered using Wikipedia and Baseball Reference.Pitcher Bob Kipper was the 8th player selected in the 1982 amateur draft, by the California Angels. Thanks for visiting : Card Collecting and TTM Autographs. > READ MORE ABOUT MY AUTOGRAPH SCORING SYSTEM <<< That said, the 1988 Topps and the 1992 Topps came out really well. But then the other is that he was a Pirate. That’s find in general, but when you are dealing with cards that might have a busy background or a dark background that can present problems (not his fault). The Score on Bob Kipper – 5.0īob has two things going against him. I found Bob working with the Greenville Drive. He’s spent several years as a coach since the 1999 season either in the minors or as a bullpen or pitching coach in the majors. He was part of some great contending Pirate teams over the last years he was there. He was mostly a starting in the beginning but was moved to middle relief later on. The Angels traded Kipper to the Pirates to get some veterans for a stretch run.īob pitched 247 games for the Pirates over the next seven seasons. He debuted with the Angels on April 12, 1985, but unfortunately returned to the minors after two bad games. During his time in the minors he earned Pitcher of the Year honors in the California League (A) by leading the league in wins and ERA in 1984. He had already signed with Nebraska, but jumped into professional baseball instead. Kipper grew up in Aurora, IL and after high school was drafted by the California Angels in 1982. He pitched from 1985 through 1992 and was part of three teams over that time: California Angels, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Minnesota Twins. ’88 Donruss, ’88 Fleer, ’88 Topps, ’90 Topps, ’92 Toppsīob Kipper worked mostly a relief pitcher in Major League Baseball but did start a few games over his career.MLB, Pittsburgh Pirates, Success, Topps TTM Stats
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