Rich Dauer wasn’t a typical ‘star’ during his 10-year career with the Baltimore Orioles, but don’t tell pitching legend and former teammate Jim Palmer.

“We all loved him, because he was Richie Dauer,” Hall of Famer Palmer told the Baltimore Banner. “If you don’t have teammates like that, I don’t get to the Hall of Fame. We don’t win a lot of games. We don’t go to the World Series. And that’s what the Orioles were about, so he’ll be missed, because he had such a vibrant personality.”

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Dauer, a second baseman who won a World Series with the ‘Birds’ in 1983, has died. He was 72.

No cause of death was revealed.

The San Bernardino, Calif., native didn’t have eye-popping numbers when he played for the Orioles (his slash line was .257/.310/.343 with only 43 career homers), but he was the 24th overall pick of the 1974 MLB Draft.