{"id":325501,"date":"2025-12-02T05:50:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T05:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/325501\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T05:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T05:50:11","slug":"dave-morehead-passes-away-mlb-trade-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/325501\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Morehead Passes Away – MLB Trade Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former big league pitcher\u00a0Dave Morehead<\/a> passed away last week, according to a report from J.P. Hoornstra of Newsweek<\/a>. He was 82.<\/p>\n

Morehead was a San Diego native who signed with the Red Sox as a 17-year-old. He was in the big leagues two years later, winning 10 games and pitching 174 2\/3 innings in his age-19 season. The 6\u20191\u2033 righty threw a complete game shutout with 10 strikeouts to beat the Washington Senators in his MLB debut. Morehead would go on to record 136 punchouts with a 3.81 earned run average in what was arguably the best season of his career.<\/p>\n

He\u2019d hold a rotation spot in Boston for the next two seasons. Morehead\u2019s ERA spiked north of 4.00 in each of the next two years, though he started 30+ games and topped 130 strikeouts in both seasons. The highlight of his career came at the end of the \u201965 season. Morehead fired a no-hitter in a 2-0 win over Cleveland that September. He fanned eight and only allowed one baserunner (a second-inning walk to Rocky Colavito<\/a>) to outduel\u00a0Luis Tiant<\/a>. It was the 14th no-hitter in franchise history.<\/p>\n

Morehead battled injuries and was limited to a combined 33 regular season appearances over the next three seasons. The Sox won 92 games to claim the AL pennant in 1967. Morehead got into two games during the Fall Classic, working around four walks to toss 3 1\/3 scoreless frames. Boston came up just short of a title, as\u00a0Bob Gibson<\/a> won three times to push the Cardinals to a seven-game Series win.<\/p>\n

After the \u201968 season, Morehead went to Kansas City in the expansion draft. He pitched two seasons with the Royals to finish his career. Morehead pitched to a 4.15 ERA with 627 strikeouts over 819 1\/3 innings in parts of eight campaigns. MLBTR sends our condolences to Morehead\u2019s family, friends and loved ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former big league pitcher\u00a0Dave Morehead passed away last week, according to a report from J.P. Hoornstra of Newsweek.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-325501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}