I think not. Dusty Baker thinks the solution is for him to watch Pedro Martinez and Roger Clemens and learn how to throw complete games. We think the solution is to get rid of Dusty Baker. More on that later. Pedro Martinez ranks fifth with an average of 18 PAPs per start, down more than a third from his average of 27.3 last year.
Mere mortals have to come up with some other way.
Well, someone has to sponge up innings in Milwaukee, and it might as well be the guy who puts up more walks than strikeouts. Hey, at least Davey Lopes isn t overworking Jeff D Amico . Brad Radke is actually being used with some restraint, considering he s been the Twins ace for several years and that he might not be their ace much longer. Maybe this is a sign that the Twins intend to keep him after all. His managers have flogged him, tortured him, made him pitch the ninth inning in 12-1 laughers, left him in to work out of a jam after he s walked the bases loaded in the seventh inning.