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It is Ernie Whitt’s 70th birthday today. The Red Sox drafted Whitt in the 15th round of the 1972 amateur draft. He was chosen one pick before Jason Thompson, a terrific first baseman for the Tigers...
It yielded no direct impact for the Jays, but one player worked out and spawned a long chain of future Jays
Top 60 All-Time Greatest Jays: #22 Ernie Whitt Share this story Ernie Whitt was born June 13, 1952, in Detroit, Michigan, not far from Tiger Stadium. The Red Sox picked him in the 15th round of the 1972 amateur draft, one pick before Jason Thompson, a terrific first baseman for the Tigers and Dodgers. Ernie was blocked from making the Red Sox by future Hall of Fame catcher Carlton Fisk and was left unprotected in the 1976 expansion draft, and we grabbed him up. Whitt got 41 at-bats in our first season and got into a couple of games in 1978. In 1979 he spent the whole season in the minor...