SAN FRANCISCO — Randy Moffitt, a longtime Giants reliever and an inaugural member of the team’s Wall of Fame in 2008, has died, the team announced on Friday afternoon. He was 76.
Moffitt, the brother of tennis icon Billie Jean King, spent the first 10 years of his major-league career with the Giants after being selected by the franchise in the first round of the 1970 MLB draft. He would also pitch a season each with the Houston Astros (1982) and Toronto Blue Jays (1983).
He ranks ninth all-time in franchise history in saves (83) and sixth all-time in games pitched (459). In San Francisco history, his 459 games pitched are fourth all-time in franchise history. Moffitt finished his 10 seasons in San Francisco with a 3.68 ERA and 397 strikeouts over 682 1/3 innings.
In addition to the Giants Wall of Fame, Moffitt was inducted into the Long Beach State University Athletics Hall of Fame in 1986.
Moffitt is survived by his two daughters — Miranda and her husband, Rusty, and Alysha and her husband, James — along with grandchildren Evan, Cason, Byron and Derek, as well as his sister Billie Jean Moffitt King and her wife, llana.