From: kirsch@staff.tc.umn.edu (Dave Heart Condition Kirsch)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: 1992's MLB Award Winners
Date: 8 Oct 92 22:00:15 GMT
Organization: Daves R Us (Irkutsk division)

In article <17989@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> zuhars@madrone.eecs.ucdavis.edu (Gary Yutzboy Huckabay) writes:
>Archie Holmes write:
>>>AL MVP: Dennis Eckersley
>>Try Frank Thomas
>
>For an even better fit, try Edgar Martinez.  Nice -n- Comfy.

  Or Robbie Alomar. A .400+ OBP, great D, durable as hell and runs the bases 
better than anyone not named Rickey or Devon. Me, I'm inclined to go with FT 
at this point after seeing what the 'Chicago Effect' apparently did to his
numbers this year.  

>>>NL Rookie:Eric Karros
>>The only true choice.
>
>I like Reggie Sanders, myself.  Did Karros even post a .300 OBP?

  I'll have Sanders first, but I still consider Karros a close second. I'm
probably in the minority here, but I agree with Kurt 'Some Guy' Bose that
Karros is gonna walk more. He probably pressed a little to earn a job this
year, and walked less as a result. I'm giving him some brownie points for
what he's shown he can do in the past. Since Rookie of the Year is as vague
as the other awards, I see it as a combination of (1) The rookie that had the
best year and (2) The rookie with the best long-term potential.  

>Yeah, that A's rotation of Stewart, Darling, Welch, and Moore is
>simply terrifying.  I know that I, as an A's fan was thinking, "Well,
>this game's in the bag for us now" when I saw vaunted hurler Kelly
>Downs throwing in the bullpen.  (Actually, the cry of "Nooooo!" was
>apparently audible at the Nichols household, some 100 miles away.)

  Couldn't have been as loud as the howls coming out of the Twin Cities. My 
aunt in Milwaukee *swears* she heard me howling at several points during the
game, but maybe I just got uplinked into the satellite feed. First, Cito
doesn't run Devo right away in the first inning (37 SB/4 CS) and Alomar hits
into a DP. That first howl wasn't too bad, cuz I half expected Cito to be
bunting White over. I was relatively docile after that until later in the
game, when Jackal and the Jays decided to make it close and tease me. The
Jays tie it up in the bottom of the 8th, and I figure, "OK, bring in Key to 
face Baines and then bring in Ward. No problem." Of course, Cito leaves in
his 'horse' who promptly serves up a hanging fat ball (tm) to Baines. At that
point, AAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAARGGGGHHHH!!!!!!!
echoed far beyond the reaches of the Metromuffin. The 'big game' pitcher was
just that; unfortunately, the Jays weren't the team that benefitted from his
'big game'. 

>>>Next MLB superstar hitter:Dave Hollins
>>There is a guy named Grisson in Montreal that I would take
>>it a heartbeat.
>
>I'd rather have Hollins, I think.  What are their ages?

  I'd rather have Grissom, although Hollins has been overlooked. Grissom's
25, Hollins is 26. Hollins might be a better player to have *right now*, but 
I suspect Grissom's speed will help him age better in the long run. 
 
>Smoltz already qualifies.  How about Roger Salkeld?  Anyone can
>predict these guys.  Anyone care to try to guess the next Juan Guzman?
>Someone that the club doesn't protect, and isn't taken in the Rule V
>draft?

  Bad news about Salkeld; he just had his right shoulder capsule
reconstructed, and will miss the entire 1993 season. As if things weren't bad
enough for Mariner fans .. 

  Roberto Hernandez sure impressed me the second half of this year. The guy
throws mini-micro-aspirin tablets. Mo Sanford's been kinda buried by the
Reds, but he hadn't logged much time above A ball before this year so he's
still kind of a wildcard. 

>How about Reggie Harris?  I watch that guy throw, and I wonder how
>anyone can get a hit off of him.

  Still needs more than just a heater, but otherwise I'd agree. Then again,
there are probably about a zillion guys that can throw hard and still can't
consistently get people out.  

-- 
Dave Hung Like a Jim Acker Slider Kirsch            kirsch@epx.cis.umn.edu 
"Blue Jays - break my heart again in '92"    Roberto Hernandez throws peas  
"I believe virtually everything I read, and I think that is what makes me
   MORE of a selective human" - Joe Average, baseball fan and media puppet