Game 45: Brewers at Twins

Larry Yount’s brother and a Radio Guy. (Photo by Ron Vesely/MLB Photos via Getty Images) | Getty Images Time: 6:10 Central Weather: Sunny and mellow, 83° Opponent’s SB site: Brew Crew Ball TV: Twins TV. Radio: Bob Uecker’s still one of the best, RIP The Brewers starting pitcher will be Coleman Crow, no relation to Aloha director Cameron Crowe.

I know bubkis about Crow, who will be making his second MLB start (his first was in April). BrewerFanatic (a pretty good indie site) has Crow ranked as the team’s 16th-highest prospect; MLB. com has him as 25th .

Both agree than Crow has a wicked curveball with a really high spin rate; and that the kid’s a gamer, who “‘seems to find ways to get outs even when he doesn’t have his “A” stuff that night’” (from BF). So take that for what it’s worth. Today we’ll go into The Baseball Project’s catalog, for the odd story of Larry Yount, the older brother of Brewers legend Robin Yount.

Larry was drafted in 1968 at age 18 by the Astros, and despite some control issues in the minors, had put up fairly decent numbers when he was called up to the bigs in September of 1971. ( Per Kurt Blumenau of SABR , Larry was one of the Astros’ top five pitching prospects at the time. ) On September 15th, with the Astros trailing Atlanta 4-1 in the ninth, Larry was announced as the next relief pitcher.