Claim: In the 1973 Philadelphia Phillies season, Mike Schmidt failed to recover from a spring training illness while Jim Lonborg and Ken Brett won 13 games each after being obtained from a trade with the Milwaukee Brewers, an American professional baseball team based in Milwaukee.
Evidence: Steve Carlton, the highest paid pitcher in the game at $165,000, never recovered from a spring training illness and went 13–20. In his rookie season, Mike Schmidt hit just .196 and struck out 136 times in 367 at-bats.