John Goetz

{{Short description|American baseball player (1937–2008)}}

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{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=John Goetz

|position=Pitcher

|image=

|caption=

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{Birth date|1937|10|24}}

|birth_place=Goetzville, Michigan

|death_date={{death date and age|2008|10|27|1937|10|24}}

|death_place=Troy, Michigan

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=April 16

|debutyear=1960

|debutteam=Chicago Cubs

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=April 29

|finalyear=1960

|finalteam=Chicago Cubs

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Win–loss record

|stat1value=0–0

|stat2label=Earned run average

|stat2value=12.79

|stat3label=Innings pitched

|stat3value={{frac|6|1|3}}

|teams=

• Chicago Cubs (1960)}}

John Hardy Goetz (October 24, 1937 – October 27, 2008) was an American professional baseball player. Despite being left handed, he was a right-handed pitcher. He appeared in four games for the {{baseball year|1960}} Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball, but had an 11-year career in minor league baseball. A native of Goetzville, Michigan, he stood {{convert|6|ft}} tall, weighed {{convert|185|lb}} and attended Western Michigan University.

Goetz' Major League trial came at the outset of the 1960 Cubs' season. He made the team's 28-man early-season roster out of spring training and appeared as a relief pitcher in four contests. In his MLB debut, against the San Francisco Giants, he was effective, hurling {{frac|2|2|3}} innings of scoreless relief. But he was treated roughly in outings against the Giants the following week and against the St. Louis Cardinals in his last appearance,{{cite web|url=http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1960/Kgoetj1010011960.htm|title=The 1960 CHI N Regular Season Pitching Log for John Goetz|website=www.retrosheet.org}} and was returned to the minors, where he spent the rest of his career. He retired from professional baseball after the 1965 season and 333 games played in the minors.{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=goetz-002joh|title=John Goetz Minor Leagues Statistics & History - Baseball-Reference.com|website=Baseball-Reference.com}}

In {{frac|6|1|3}} Major League innings, Goetz allowed nine earned runs, ten hits and four bases on balls. He struck out six.