Mike Marshall was an MLB pitcher who was the first relief pitcher to win the Cy Young Award.Marshall didn’t make his Major League debut until 1967, when he was 24 years old, pitching for the Detroit Tigers.
He would go on to play for nine teams over 14 seasons, with perhaps his most notable years coming with the Montreal Expos from 1970 to 1973 and the Los Angeles Dodgers from 1974 to 1976.
Marshall was an original member of the Seattle Pilots in 1969. In 1974, he won the National League Cy Young Award, the first relief pitcher ever to receive that honor, and he was named National League Pitcher of the Year by The Sporting News.
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