LA Angels all-time roster — Long reliever/spot starter: Mike Witt (1981-1990)
Mike Witt was another pitcher that the Los Angeles Angels were not quite sure of what they had in him for the first few years of his Major League career. In the end, he turned out to be a staff ace for a four-year span in the middle of the 1980s.
From 1984 through 1987, Witt led the Angels in wins, strikeouts, innings pitched and complete games in every season. He made two All-Star Games, and finished third in the 1986 Cy Young balloting. Witt also pitched the eleventh perfect game in MLB history, a 1-0 victory over the Seattle Mariners on the final day of the season.
That would not be the only no-hitter that Witt would be a part of. On April 11, 1990, he pitched the final two innings of a combined no-hitter with Mark Langston as the Angels defeated the Seattle Mariners. That would also be his last hurrah in an Angels uniform, as he was traded exactly a month later to the New York Yankees for Dave Winfield.
A pitcher that appeared to be on the verge of becoming a star until he suddenly lost his stuff during the 1987 season, Mike Witt served in a variety of roles with the Angels, filling each admirably.