If Your Birthday is February 17th...

...you share it with Stephen Tarpley. The lefty reliever saw his stock rapidly rise and fall with the Yankees. After impressive minor league work in 2018, he joined the big club late that season. His run of luck continued through last spring training, when he was named the James Dawson Award winner as the club's best rookie prospect. But it all fell apart during the season, as he allowed just about two baserunners per inning and more alarmingly, four home runs in just 24 innings. After being dropped from the club's 40-man roster, he was traded to the Marlins this winter.

Other notable names on today's cake and candles list:

Roger Craig, one of the last surviving Brooklyn Dodger players, but best remembered for losing more than 20 games in each of his two seasons (1962 and '63) with the expansion Mets. Over his 12 major league seasons, he appeared in three World Series -- three with the '50s Dodgers and in 1964 with the Cardinals.

Danny Farquar's place in baseball history should be for his courageous 2019 comeback attempt a year after suffering a brain hemhorrage during a game a year earlier with the White Sox. Then, he made his biggest headline this winter, as one of the players who revealed the extent of the Astros sign-stealing scheme.

Dave Roberts -- the utility player who appeared mainly with the Padres during the 1970s -- also makes our list (as opposed to the Red Sox 2004 playoff hero and current Dodger manager or the former Colt .45s and Pirate outfielder, or the well traveled pitcher).

And we can't forget Wally Pipp: the Yankee first baseman who missed a game in 1925. Some college kid named Gehrig filled in -- and didn't take a day off for the next 14 years. While the expression Wally Pipp-ed is all over the sports lexicon, he was a darned good player, a .285 career hitter, who gave the Yanks a decade of good production. he was born February 17th, 1893.

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