Michael Wayne Strahler (March 14, 1947 – July 14, 2016) was an American baseball player who played as a
pitcher
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in the
Major League Baseball
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. He pitched from 1970 to 1973 for the
Los Angeles Dodgers
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and
Detroit Tigers
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. He was traded from the
Tigers
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to the
Milwaukee Brewers
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for
Ray Newman
Raymond Francis Newman (born June 20, 1945) is a former Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher for the Chicago Cubs in 1971 and the Milwaukee Brewers in 1972-1973.
He saw limited action in his brief career, usually as a reliever. He became ...
at the
Winter Meetings
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on December 6, 1973.
Strahler died on July 14, 2016, aged 69.
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1947 births
2016 deaths
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