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From: rlopez@loanstar.tamu.edu (Robert Lopez)
Subject: Re: Jose Canseco to Texas...
Keywords: eat more ranger moose
Organization: The Hosequarium South
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 18:49:31 GMT

In article <1992Sep1.182029.8335@osf.org>, ron@osf.org (Ron Birnbaum) writes:
|> 
|>   Who considers Sierra a disruptive influence?? I've heard the guy's a 
|>   gentleman! Maybe the fact that he's a free agent is a bit disruptive this
|>   year - but the guy sure is no Canseco or Henderson. Rueben is very popular
|>   with his teammates, from what I've heard. But in Boston we're pretty far
|>   from Texas, so perhaps I haven't heard everything about him - please
|>   give some details!
|> 
|> 
|>  Wonder Years,
|> -Ron
|> 

Lately Sierra has been taking alot of booing from the fans.  In Boston that's
probably normal, but around here it means something pretty major ESPECIALLY
since he was a fan favorite during his early years.  A couple of weeks ago
he made some very biting comments towards the fans and the Dallas area.  I
guess enough was enough.  I haven't really heard that he was a disruptive
influence in the clubhouse though.

Personally, I think it was just time for Canseco and Sierra to move on.  Witt
too (Russell I will refrain from commenting on).  I think that they will all
get new starts and play well.  Have you seen the video clips from Jose in 
'85 that ESPN has been showing?  Makes it seem like 1985 was a looooong time
ago, and in a baseball sense, it was.  It's just time to move on.

The Simpsons,
srl
From: genetic+@pitt.edu (Dr. Dave)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: Braves 15 to protect
Date: 2 Sep 92 20:14:24 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Department of Industrial Engineering

Thus spake hutto@smtc.engr.scarolina.edu:

[Stats for Melvin Nieves, Braves' AA outfielder:

AVG   OBA   AB    R    H    2B    3B    HR    RBI   BB   SO    SB    CS    E
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
.283  .381  350   61   99   23    5     18    75    52   98    6     4     5
]

>    Let's see...
>    52 BB in 350 AB, that's probably (I'm guessing) around 1 BB per 7 PA,

1 in 8, roughly.  Better than a 12% walk rate, which is well above the major
league average.  Throw in the fact that people tend to walk more as they get
older, and he looks quite promising in this regard.  Not Frank Thomas, but
promising.

>    98 K in 350 AB, that's well over than 1 K per 4 PA, much be those
>    killer power pitchers down in AA.

Who cares?  With a .381 OBP, I don't care if he strikes out 200 times in a
season.

The big rap about this kid isn't on his stat sheet, it's on his birth
certificate.  24 years old and still in AA, that makes him at least 25 and
probably 26 before he gets any significant major league playing time.  He
may be pretty good for a few years, but I wouldn't call him a major prospect.

>    Let's don't trade Gant or Justice right away, OK?

I agree with the sentiment, if not the justification.


-- 
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 dtate@unix.cis.pitt.edu | And I crouched in the circle while my insides froze
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From: zurawski@cbnewse.cb.att.com (lawrence.w.zurawski)
Subject: Re: CUB'S MADDUX EASY CHOICE FOR CY
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 21:12:14 GMT

In article <Bu0EFz.45x@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, anderson@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (anderson peter john) writes:
> 
> Far too many pitchers have won Cy Young awards with a lot of wins (because
> of high run support) and ugly ERA's.  Rick Sutcliffe, Lamar Hoyt and Steve
> Stone immediately come to mind.  And in hindsight, would anybody actually
> argue that these three guys were among the great pitchers of the 1980's?
> 

I seem to recall Sutcliffe's ERA being around 2.7 or so in '84.  I agree
with your comments as they apply to Hoyt and Stone.

Larry Zurawski
zurawski@ihlpm.att.com
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From: kirsch@epx.cis.umn.edu (Dave Kirsch)
Subject: Re: The Pittsburgh Streak (was: The Amit watch (tm)) 
Keywords: Forbes Avenue, bad luck, naked, r.s.bb convention, streak  
Organization: Paul Spoljaric mean-and-nasty club
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 21:06:32 GMT

In article <1992Aug25.223752.1019@news2.cis.umn.edu> lsmith@deci.cs.umn.edu (Lance "Peitso!" Smith) writes:
>I see that Hojo had surgery today and will miss the rest of the season.
>
>So when does the parade of Forbes Avenue begin? I have to get my airplane 
>tickets...

  For the less-than-well-informed readers of rec.sport.baseball, this is
formally known as the 'Amit watch (tm)'. To refresh everyone's memory: 

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From: al1x+@andrew.cmu.edu (Amit Likhyani)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: NL East( Smiley trade's impact )
Date: 2 Apr 92 03:48:28 GMT
Organization: Junior, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Excerpts from netnews.rec.sport.baseball: 1-Apr-92 Re: NL East( Smiley
trade's.. CAVGEOE@YaleVM.YCC.Yale. (591)

>      OPS Projected for 1992:
>                              HoJo .792

I will streak naked down Forbes avenue if HoJo does not muster more than
a .792 OPS.  Something is wrong with that projection.
------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

  Bzzt. Hojo ended the season with a .666 OPS. Eerie. Scary.  

  Anyone know about fare wars or supersaver fares to Pittsburgh? 

  Of course, I'm getting more than a little nervous about the Brewers' hot 
streak, and not just cuz they're breathing down the Jays' necks. Observe: 

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From: zuhars@madrone.eecs.ucdavis.edu (Gary Not Just For The Dead Huckabay)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: True Blue Brew Crew in '92!
Date: 28 Jul 92 22:14:38 GMT
Organization: Lance Smith Tastee Freezes, Inc.

(Paul R Krueger) writes:
>Fifth, the Brewers finished the last 69 games of last year at 40-19, the
>best in the majors. If they went 36-18 the rest of the way, they'd duplicate
>that feat and end up at 90-72, which would at least keep them in the pennant
>race. 

And if they play .667 ball from here on out, I'll french kiss Dave
Kirsch.  (Think anyone will save this text?   :-)

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  Sweating through September, 

-- 
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From: dwarner@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (David J.)
Subject: Braves Minor Leaguers (was Re: 15 to protect)
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 19:02:27 GMT

In article <67466@hydra.gatech.EDU> mm42@prism.gatech.EDU (Mark Mitchell) writes:
>chandoni@husc8.harvard.edu wrote:
>}
>}Who is M Nieves?
>
>Melvin Nieves is a swith-hitting outfielder.
>
>Here are his numbers at AA Greenville this season:
>
>AVG   OBA   AB    R    H    2B    3B    HR    RBI   BB   SO    SB    CS    E
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>.283  .381  350   61   99   23    5     18    75    52   98    6     4     5
>
>I believe this comes out to a .531 SLG.

     I got a chance to see Nieves play in both A Durham and AA Greenville this
season. Both nights he knocked one deep over the right field wall. He's about
24, and his stats from previous years show a serious upward trend. If he isn't
on the Braves' protected list, he may be the first to go to the expansion
teams.
     Another player from the Braves' system who looks really good is Mike
Hostetler, a 21-year-old RHP from Marietta, Ga. This is only his second season
in pro ball, so he won't be snatched up from the system.  It's a good thing,
too, because he pitched two shutouts for Durham before being called up, then
gave up one earned run on four hits in six innings in his first Greenville
outing.  He told the papers the next day he had a "really bad game."  This kid
will be the fourth man in the rotation by 1994.

>-- 
>Mark Mitchell           Georgia Tech            mm42@prism.gatech.edu
>
>     "I love codfish, I love codfish, I love codfish balls!"


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From: mcgead@operators.its.rpi.edu (Darren McGeary)
Subject: Re: Pitchers who hit (again)
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 01:27:05 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.004822.27869@tandem.com> daryll@daryllf.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Daryll France) writes:
>In article <69TP02Kk1f8M01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>, msw10@nepenthe.as (Michael S. Wong) writes:
>|> I went to the Giants and Mets game last night at Candlestick. Dwight Gooden
>|> was pitching, and when he first came to bat I noticed that he is hitting .280.
>|> It seems everytime I watch Gooden he is hitting .260-.280. Later in the game,
>|> Dr. K pulled a pitch over the left field fence. Yet Gooden was still #9 in the
>|> batting order. My question is, why are pitchers
>|> always batted last? The Mets had SS Dick Schofield, who was hitting .205 hitting
>|> second. It seems to me like it would make a lot more sense to bat a pitcher who
>|> has shown he can *consistently* hit above .250 the same place you would bat
>|> any other player who bats >.250. The only reasons I could think of were that
>|> 1) everyday players are viewed as too neurotic to be moved from their normal
>|> position in the batting order every 5th day (which maybe explains why the Giants
>|> can't hit as Roger Craig rarely sticks with one lineup this year) or 2) it's
>|> just another stupid tradition managers follow without thinking about.
>|> 
>|> Any Comments?
>
>The reason pitchers always bat in the #9 position to start a game is because if you have a pitcher that bats .400 in the cleanup spot and you have to remove him from the game early (injury, ineffectiveness,...) the replacement pitcher has to play in his slot (unless you perform a double switch) and his .083 batting average will be a severe disadvantage in the cleanup spot for the rest of the game.
>
>--
>Daryll D. France
>france_daryll@tandem.com

    The guys on WFAN radio were talking about this during the game also.
They said a big part of the reason is that it would be real embarrassing
for whomever had to bat 9th if they batted a pitcher 8th.  Torborg, being
a light hitting catcher during his days, they said, is sensitive to that
sort of thing.
    I believe Chris Donnels was on first last night with no out. Charlie
O'Brien was batting and Gooden was on deck.  They were wondering if
Torborg would have O'Brien bunt Donnels over for Gooden.  That's when
the subject came up.  The announcers figured Torborg would never do that
since it would be too embarrasing for O'Brien.
 

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From: kwilliam@thomson.seas.ucla.edu (William Kuan)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Juan Gonzalez career stats?
Date: 2 Sep 92 22:09:11 GMT
Organization: SEASnet, University of California, Los Angeles


	Does anybody have Juan Gonzalez' previous statistics in the
big leagues? I know he is only 22 years old, and I believe he has
played only one previous season with the Rangers and I think had
29? home runs his rookie year. Is this right??
From: IOR@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (Thomas Hyer)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Quotes of the week
Date: 3 Sep 92 17:32:44 GMT
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

A Dallas columnist, speaking of The Trade:

  "Bobby Witt was always going to be the next somebody,
   but unfortunately he always turned out to bt the next
   Bobby Witt."

A Royals fan, of the swarm of midges that invaded the stadium:

  "After about three beers, they were kind of lumpy going
   down, but they weren't too bad."


Tom Hyer
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From: yl44729@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Rick Lin )
Subject: Re: CUB'S MADDUX EASY CHOICE FOR CY
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 19:50:52 GMT

jnelson@iastate.edu (Jeremy F Nelson) writes:

>_HOW_ can you possibily say Wrigley field is a hitter's ballpark?  How many times has the wind blown out this season? 6? 7?

> Wrigley field has given up less homers than the Astrodome this year.
  ======					  =========
> Come on!


It had never occurred to me that ball parks can give up home runs.  I thought
only pitchers give up home runs.
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From: hhenderson@vax.clarku.edu
Subject: RE: Boggs Toronto bound?
Organization: Clark University
Date: 27 AUG 92 12:47:45 GMT

>He is a free agent and wants a deal similar to Ripkens.

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA.

Yeah, I don't blame him.  So do I.

The Bogg-man needs to get a grip on reality.

Heather
Jack Clark University (official name change pending)
HHENDERSON@vax.clarku.edu
From: grabiner@math.harvard.edu (David Grabiner)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: CY, MVP, ROY
Date: 2 Sep 92 21:25:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: zariski.GRABINER.92Sep2172625
 orp.sgi.com><1992Aug31.144544.6526@osf.org> <1992Sep2.170029.3127@island.COM>
Organization: Harvard University Dept. of Mathematics
In-reply-to: fester@island.COM's message of Wed, 2 Sep 1992 17:00:29 GMT

In article <1992Sep2.170029.3127@island.COM>, Mike Fester writes:

> In article <1992Aug31.144544.6526@osf.org> ron@osf.org (Ron Birnbaum) writes:

>>  Frank isn't recognized by the writers - who figure anyone who walks that
>>  much must be hurting his team by not hitting HR's instead!!

>> Hey - I didn't say they were smart! 

> Nor do you appear to pay much attention to the voting. Schmidt, Williams,
> Gehrig, Ruth, Foxx, Greenberg, Allen, Killebrew, R Henderson, Murphy, Morgan,
> Mays, etc, are all examples of people who do/did well in the MVP voting and
> had a tendency to get a lot of walks. Doesn't appear to be any such 
> "high BB total - no MVP recognition" connection.

It's not that a high walk total *disqualifies* you from MVP contention,
but that it *hurts* you.  The players listed were all very good at other
things, such as batting average, home runs, stolen bases, and fielding.

To see that a high walk total hurts you in the MVP voting, just look at
the 1987 NL MVP vote.  Murphy drew 82 more walks than Dawson, with
nearly equal batting and slugging averages.  But he didn't "help" his
team with any of those 82 walks, since each one was a missed RBI
opportunity, not a home run, and had no effect on his batting average;
as a result, he had only 105 RBI to Dawson's 139, and five fewer home
runs.

In all other respects, the players were quite comparable; both played
for bad teams in hitters' parks, and both were good right fielders who
had just moved from center.  Dawson won the award; Murphy was 11th.
That's how much 82 walks hurt him in the MVP vote.

And the same will happen to Frank Thomas this year, and did happen last
year.  If you don't see Thomas's walk numbers, you won't be as impressed
by the RBI totals.  And that will hurt him in the MVP voting.  If he is
clearly the best player in the league, he may still win it; Rickey did
in 1990, but not in 1985, when he scored 143 runs and was primarily
responsible for Mattingly's 146 RBI.

> See Bill James' Historical Abstract for a fairly good analysis of MVP voting
> (and why he almost always agrees with the way the vote goes).

He does *not* almost always agree with the modern vote.  The historical
votes give a perspective which he doesn't have; when Johnny Bassler
finished fifth in the 1924 AL MVP vote, that means that, for some
reason, the sporstwriters considered him to be a good player.

But James has criticized several modern MVP votes, because he *does*
have the necessary information and knows the sportswriters' biases.

--
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From: nittmo@camelot.bradley.edu (Christopher Taylor)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Vote for Strat-O MVP
Date: 25 Aug 92 19:54:45 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Bradley University

I would like some help from some unbiased people in selecting a Player of
the Year and a Pitcher of the Year in my Strat-O-Matic Baseball League.
Here were the regular season records of each team:

Division A                         Division B
Detroit       57-33                Toronto           52-38
Chicago       56-34                Atlanta           34-56
Minnesota     43-47                Cincinnati        28-62

Leading performers from each team:

Detroit
Cal Ripken, Jr.    19 HR, 50 RBI, .287 AVG
Barry Bonds        20 HR, 52 RBI, 57 steals, .254
Mark Langston      11-4, 2.57 ERA, 103 K's
Roger Clemens      9-3, 2.73, 115 K's
Teddy Higuera      9-3, 2.91, 89 K's

Chicago
Greg Harris        11-6, 3.23 ERA, 106 K's
Joel Johnston      9-1, 3.27 ERA, 3 saves, 89 K's
Doug Henry         1-1, 26 saves, 2.29 ERA 
Danny Tartabull    29 HR, 69 RBI, .301 AVG
John Kruk          12 HR, 44 RBI, .330 AVG
Julio Franco       11 HR, 42 RBI, .312 AVG, 52 steals

Toronto
Tony Gwynn         .358, 140 Hits, 4 HR, 51 RBI
Rafeal Palmeiro    19 HR, 70 RBI, .351 AVG, .604 SLG
Ken Griffey, Jr.   15 HR, 61 RBI, .297 AVG, 69 runs
Nolan Ryan         16-6, 2.96 ERA, 232 K's, 16 CG
Melido Perez       8-2, 3.44 ERA, 2 saves, 87 K's

Atlanta
No stats available

Minnesota
Frank Thomas       21 HR, 75 RBI, .312 AVG, 94 BB, 70 runs
David Justice      20 HR, 69 RBI, .316 AVG, 72 runs

Cincinnati
Barry Larkin       11 HR, 33 RBI, .320 AVG, 30 steals
Devon White        11 HR, 34 RBI, .304 AVG, 17 steals

More information (league leaders, etc.) available upon request.
Please vote for up to 5 players in player of the year voting and up to 3
pitchers in pitcher of the year voting.
E-mail votes to nittmo@camelot.bradley.edu
Thanks for your help!!
 
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From: sckelm@iastate.edu (Steven C Kelm)
Subject: Sam Militello
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 17:06:24 GMT

I've been hearing bits and pieces information about this rookie with the
Yankees but would like to know more.  Is he a control pitcher or a power 
pitcher?  Any information about him, especially info. on his time spent in the 
minors would be greatly appreciated.

Steve Kelm

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From: oxley@pdn.paradyne.com (Don Oxley)
Subject: Re: J. Gonzales All-time HR King
Organization: AT&T Paradyne, Largo, Florida
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 18:14:15 GMT

In article <EedBLwO00VBCI5aGMl@andrew.cmu.edu> pl16+@andrew.cmu.edu (Peter Stephen Lee) writes:
>>  I made some guesses about how Juan Gonzalez would finish this season and 
>>feed this year and his previous years back into the Brock2 program written by
>>David Grabiner.  According to this, he should pass Babe Ruth as the all-time
>>homerun hitter.  Also, it looks like he has a chance to pass Maris in the 
>>single season homerun record( Of course this happens when he's 27 years old).
>>Anyway, it was interesting to look at.
>
>Huh?
>Babe Ruth isn't the all time home run hitter

IMHO, even though officially Aaron had more balls clear the fence,
Ruth still wears the crown.  Aaron had more seasons, more AB per
season.  Then there is the argument about playing in a different era
and such, but I still give the nod to Ruth.  

Did they ever remove the astericks from the record book next to
Maris' record?  Just wondering.


DonO

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From: rstimets@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (robert and stimets)
Subject: Re: Home Run Rule: Lind's Hit in Dodger-Pirate Game
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 21:23:06 GMT

In article <92242.001656IO20456@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> IO20456@MAINE.MAINE.EDU (Ryan R Robbins) writes:
>hymowitz@whatever.cs.jhu.edu (Hymie!) writes:
>
>     if the ump judges the ball to be intentionally thrown into the
>     field, could this be judged as interference?  in this case, a
>     runner from first, especially a fast one, could be awarded
>     home plate for the interference.
>
>No, interference isn't the call. Interference occurs when the
>offense interferes with, obstructs, impedes, or confuses a fielder
>attempting to make a play. Defensive interference is when the
>defense hinders or prevents a batter from hitting a pitch....
>
>So far nobody has come up with what the correct ruling would be if
>a fielder were to throw a batted ball into the stands. It would not
>be a ground rule double, since it would be a deliberate act. Rule
>9.01c gives umpires the right to rule on points not specifically
>covered in the rules. For this reason, no umpire would ignore such
>a flagrant violation by a fielder. Personally, I would declare the
>ball dead and award the batter-runner and runners the number of
>bases I feel they would have reached had the fielder not have
>thrown the ball away.

Which would have to be at least two bases from the time of the pitch (the
award for an unintentional play).  Also, I would eject the player in question.

RStimets
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From: claudius@leland.Stanford.EDU (Nelson Lu)
Subject: Re: Huge Rangers/Athletics trade
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 23:30:01 GMT

In article <randall.715358913@moose> randall@informix.com (Randall Rhea) writes:
>
>IMHO, this is a great trade for the A's.    They needed another
>starting pitcher.   You can't win a pennant if you have Kelly Downs in
>your rotation.  Also, they needed another reliever, and Russell seems

Funny, I thought that Giants did exactly that in '89.

===============================================================================
GO CALIFORNIA ANGELS!
===============================================================================
Nelson Lu (claudius@leland.stanford.edu)
From: mckinney@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Patrick Mckinney)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Jose Canseco to Texas...
Date: 1 Sep 92 10:15:20 GMT
Reply-To: mckinney@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Patrick Mckinney)
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD


Just heard this on WIYY Baltimore (98 Rock) at 6:00 am, Jose
Jose Canseco was traded just before game time yesterday
(10:30 EDT) to the Texas Rangers for Ruben Sierra, Bobby Witt
and Jeff Russell...

Go Figure...

**************************************************************
Go Birds

Patrick McKinney
**************************************************************
From: snichols@adobe.com (Sherri Nichols)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: Fighting & Baldwin(pens)
Date: 26 Aug 92 20:23:28 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated

In article <farenebt.714857660@craft.camp.clarkson.edu> farenebt@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Bri Farenell) writes:
>I don't think he is 100% off base. Now only if MLB would address bench-clearing
>brawls like the NHL has, you might see less than 10 bench-clearing brawls
>in baseball every week. 

The number of bench-clearing brawls was up early in the season.  MLB
responded by handing out more, and more severe suspensions.  The number of
bench-clearing brawls dropped.

Sherri Nichols
snichols@adobe.com