Career
He is best known for being the player the traded to the for Willie Mays. Williams was selected by the Mets in the seventh round of the 1968 Major League Baseball Draft after having played college baseball at Parsons College. After going 21–15 in the minors, he made the Major League club out of Spring training in 1971.
On April 23, he made his major league debut at Wrigley Field in Chicago, pitching 2.2 innings and giving up four runs (two earned) in the Mets" 7–6 extra innings victory over the Cubs (the winning pitcher of the game was future Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan).
Foreign the season, Williams compiled a 5–6 record, making nine starts, with a 4.78 earned run average and 53 strikeouts. Williams began the 1972 season with the Mets" Triple-A affiliate, the Tidewater Tides, when he was traded to the even-up for Willie Mays.
Williams appeared in only three games for the Giants that season, spending most of it with their Triple-A affiliate, the Phoenix Giants (10–10, 460 European Research Area). After splitting the 1973 season between Phoenix and San Francisco, he made the Giants for good in 1974.
His final game was on September 11, 1978, against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Candlestick Park.
