Paul Siebert
Paul Edward Siebert is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. Paul's father was former major league first baseman Dick Siebert.
The Houston Astros drafted Siebert in the third round of the 1971 Major League Baseball Draft out of Edina High School in Edina, Minnesota. He went 36-24 with a 2.86 earned run average over three seasons in Houston's farm system when he received a September call-up in. He started in his major league debut on September 7 against the San Diego Padres, and exited after seven strong innings with a 4-2 lead the bullpen was unable to hold. In his next start, he shutout the San Francisco Giants on four hits. Siebert would not, however, win another game with the Astros. He would not make it out of the second inning in either of his next two starts, and went 0-2 each of the two following seasons. Just as pitchers and catchers were set to report for Spring training, Siebert was dealt to the Padres for a minor league pitcher.
Siebert began the 1977 season with the triple A Hawaii Islanders, and was up in the majors for less than two weeks when he was part of the infamous "Saturday Night Massacre" in New York. On June 15, 1977, the Mets traded Dave Kingman to the San Diego Padres for Siebert and Bobby Valentine, sent Tom Seaver to the Cincinnati Reds for Pat Zachry, Doug Flynn, Steve Henderson and Dan Norman, and Mike Phillips to the St. Louis Cardinals for Joel Youngblood.
Siebert split the rest of that year between the Mets and the minor league Tidewater Tides. He was the winning pitcher and scored the winning run in the Mets' seventeen inning extra innings marathon against the Montreal Expos on July 9. Coincidentally, his only other win and final career win also came in extra innings against the Los Angeles Dodgers. He would also split the season between the Mets and Tidewater, going 0-2 with a 5.14 ERA at the major league level.
Siebert was traded to the St. Louis Cardinals for outfielder Bob Coluccio after the 1978 season, but neither would see any major league experience with his new club. Siebert was released at the end of Spring training. Shortly afterwards, he signed with the Montreal Expos, going 1-3 with a 5.25 ERA for the Denver Bears of the American Association before retiring.
