Michael Wayne Strahler (March 14, 1947 – July 14, 2016) was an American baseball player who played as a

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in the

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. He pitched from 1970 to 1973 for the

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and

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. He was traded from the

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to the

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for

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at the

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on December 6, 1973. Strahler died on July 14, 2016, aged 69.

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