Career
He played all or part of nine seasons in Major League Baseball for the Texas Rangers (1975), Cleveland Indians (1976-1980 and 1981), Chicago White Sox (1980) and San Francisco Giants (1982-1983). Primarily an outfielder, he also played substantially at catcher. After attending Flint Central High School, Pruitt was drafted out of Michigan State University by the Rangers in 1972.
In 9 seasons he played in 341 games and had 795 at bats, 88 runs scored, 214 hits, 28 doubles, 4 triples, 12 home runs, 92 Reserve Bank of India, 8 stolen bases, 94 walks (7 intentional), a.269 batting average, a.345 on-base percentage, a.360 slugging percentage, 286 total bases, 7 sacrifice hits, and 7 sacrifice flies.