Nice work DoubleDiamond. I knew Kyle and Jim were linked by more than just their last name- it was their draft position in consecutive years for the same team I had forgotten.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/PHI/PHI199205080.shtml

I see that another of the Phillies disastrous 1991-1992 offseason acquisitions, Dale Sveum, also appeared in this game. Also, Abbott went 1-for-1 with an RBI double and a walk.

But 1992 was the year in which it was realized that Curt Schilling, who had already been rejected by three other organizations, had a much better future than Kyle Abbott, a former first round draft pick (in the second of two consecutive years in which the Angels chose a lefthanded pitcher with the last name of Abbott in the opening round). In 1993, Abbott was in AAA at Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, and Schilling was in the starting rotation of the National League champions.

Incidentally, Ruben Amaro, Jr., has not continuously been a member of the Phillies organization since the trade that brought him there at the same time as Kyle Abbott. He played for the Cleveland Indians in the 1994 and 1995 seasons, although based on the number of games in which he appeared in those years, he was either injured or in Buffalo most of that time, just as he had spent most of 1993 as Kyle Abbott's teammate at SWB. He was not on the Phillies 1993 postseason roster but did make a couple of appearances for the Indians in the 1995 postseason.

The similarly-named Paul Abbott appeared with the Phillies twelve seasons later than Kyle Abbott. Like Kyle, Paul had a lopsided win-loss record with the Phillies with only one win, but it was "only" 1-6. While Kyle Abbott had been gone from the majors for almost 8 years and the Phillies almost 9 by the time Paul Abbott arrived in Philadelphia, Paul is actually 5 months and 3 days older than Kyle. And Paul Abbott is four days older than Jim Abbott, the lefty-throwing, lefty-fielding pitcher drafted by the Angels the year before Kyle Abbott, who had been gone from the majors for 5 years before Paul Abbott pitched for the Phillies in 2004. (But that stint in Philadelphia was the end of the line for Paul Abbott's major league career.)

Two other Abbotts had major league careers that overlapped with Kyle, Jim, or Paul, but both of them were position players - Kurt (1993-2001) and Jeff (1997-2001). Four of these five Abbotts played their last major league game either for (Paul) or against (Jim, Kurt, and Jeff) the Phillies. Kyle's last game is not noted on his Baseball Reference page, but since he ended up in the AL before the interleague era, he would not have ended his career on August 24, 1996, against the team for which he pitched in 1992 and 1995.

"The minimum number of decisions is the number team games that season divided by twelve rounded to the nearest integer."

Just the way I learned it as a six-year-old, IIRC.

Mike Parrott, 94 IP on a 57 ERA+. I take it OPS+ is to be interpreted as the OPS+ of opposing hitters, in which case Parrott made the average opposing batter hit like Hank Aaron.