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The Yankee who went a year without a hit

For a variety of reasons, bench players are a bigger part of baseball today than they were in other eras. Ronald Torreyes still ended up making over 100 plate appearances, even with the amount of time he was off the major league roster.

For his career, Jim Lyttle played 164 games for the Yankees between 1969-71. In that time, he picked up 324 plate appearances — not quite two per game. While his overall numbers aren’t terrible for a backup outfielder, that relatively small number of chances led to one very unfortunate streak.

A first round draft pick (10th overall) by the Yankees in 1966, Lyttle quickly worked his way through the minor leagues.