From: tseng-neill@CS.YALE.EDU (Neill Tseng)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: The Superlatives of the NL
Date: 4 Oct 92 16:14:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1992Oct4.161456.9323
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158

In article <ahn-041092012617@branford-college-node.net.yale.edu> ahn@pop.cis.yale.edu (Eugene R. Ahn) writes:
>Best starting pitcher: Greg Maddux (superior ratio, KO, wins, consistency)

Either him or Tewksbury.

>Best relief pitcher: Doug Jones (Lee Smith's 41 offset by BS, W-L, ERA)
>Best middle relief pitcher: Mike Perez (9 wins, sub 2.00 era, over 75
>games)
>Best control: Bob Tewksbury (anyone disagree?)
>Best KO artist: David Cone (now in AL)
>Most surprising pitcher: Mike Morgan (who would have thought this...at
>Wrigley)

No way.  How can Tewksbury NOT win this award?  No one in the league could have
predicted the year he had.

>Best second half pitcher: Doug Drabek (again)
>Best acquired pitcher (free agency or trade): Curt Schilling
>Best rookie starting pitcher: Rheal Cormier (what a 2nd half!) 
>Most promising rookie pitcher: Pedro Astacio
>Best rookie relief pitcher: John Wetteland
>Most likely pitcher to get rocked (on the team for a while): Kyle Abbott
>Most disappointing pitcher: Andy Benes

With Trevor Wilson and Pete Harnisch in a close second.

>Best comeback pitcher: Doug Jones

Definitely, but Danny Jackson gets a vote, too.

>Most underrated starting pitcher: Ken Hill
>Most underrated relief pitcher: Mel Rojas
>Most exciting starter to watch: John Smoltz

How about Ramon Martinez?  You never know which Ramon's gonna show up, the
dominating one of years past or the mediocre one of years present.

>Most exciting reliever to watch: Rob Dibble

My vote's for the Wild Thing, Mitch Williams.

>MVP: Terry Pendleton (the core of the Atlanta Braves each day)

I'd have to go with Bonds on this one. 

>Best hitter: Gary Sheffield (great in the clutch, superior power, average,
>RBI)

I'll agree here.  Bonds gets the MVP because of superior defense and carrying
the Pirates to the NL East title.  But I think Sheffield is the best hitter.

>Best power hiter: Fred McGriff
>Best power-speed hitter: Barry Bonds (waaah! they're pitching around me!) 
>Best leadoff man: Bip Roberts
>Fastest hitter: Marquis Grissom
>Best rookie hitter: Eric Karros
>Most promising rookie hitter: Reggie Sanders
>Best new starting hitter: Dave Hollins
>Worst contact hitter: Pete Incaviglia

Or Galarraga.

>Best contact hitter: Tony Gwynn (two worlds apart, these two)
>Best comeback hitter: Darren Daulton
>Best Canadian hitter: Larry Walker (deserves an award of some sort)
>The No-Pain No-Gain Philosopher/Hitter: Andy Van Slyke

Or Rex "Hurricane" Hudler.

>Best comeback for a "failed" rookie: Bernard Gilkey
>Most disappointing hitter: Matt Williams

No.  HoJo gets this one in a landslide.

>The hitter most superior to all others at one position: Darren Daulton
>(Ryne Sandberg usually wins this one)
>Sweetest swing: Always Will Clark though it didn't do as much this year
>Most Awkward swing: Jeff Bagwell's topswing
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>Best catch of the year: Otis Nixon's leap over the fence grab during the
>Braves winning stretch. Put a punctuation on the Braves push to re-win the
>pennant
>Best Manager: Jim Leyland (I still don't understand how he did it)
>Worst Manager: Jeff Torborg is the easy choice, but I say, Greg Riddoch.
>The Mets and Dodgers were bad teams. Riddoch is simply an awful manager.
>Best Farm system: The Atlanta Braves (it's disturbing to follow their AA
>and AAA clubs)
>Most Promising Expansion Team: The Florida Marlins (a better organization)
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>--
>Eugene "Mos Eisley" Ahn     ahn@suncis.cis.yale.edu
>"What did you think of that reply?"
>"No sir. I don't like it."


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