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In article <mjones.735583414@fenway>, mjones@fenway.aix.kingston.ibm.com (Mike Jones) writes: > scott@asd.com (Scott Barman) writes: >>In article <1993Apr20.154542.147196@clam.com> sam@steamer.clam.com (Sam Mandelbaum) writes: >>>2.  Wade Boggs. >>>    I live in Boston and like Wade a lot.  But, his career is  >>>    winding down and I would rather see the Yanks start to develop >>>    a long term solution (i.e. Hensley Muelins, Russ Davis, Velarde?). >>>    Besides, Wade just doesn't have any range.  What a shame about >>>    Charlie Hayes, huh? >>Who would you have playing 3B, Wade Boggs or Charlie Hayes?  My choice >>is Boggs.  No contest.  It will give them time to develop younger talent >>in an area the Yankee farm system seems to be deficient. >  > A-hem. Two words: Russell Davis. Playing in the cavern at Albany (AA) last > year (375/410/385 down the alleys and to center), Davis went .285/.355/.483 > with 22 homers. There aren't any small parks on the road in the Eastern > League, either. He's 23(!) and his MLE was .258/.308/.416, 17 HR. I have no > fielding statistics, but from seeing him a number of times last year I'd say > that he's not Brooks Robinson, but neither is he Howard Johnson. Unless they > think they can win the pennant *this year* (which seems possible) and need > Boggs to do it, I think they're making the same sort of mistake with Davis > that Boston made with Boggs, leaving him in the minors for two or three > years after he'd shown that he was a good hitter. >  >>>3.  Spike Owen. >>>    See Wade Boggs.  I'd much rather see them develop Dave Silvestri >>>    or whoever.  Wade and Spike next to each other in the infield is >>>    going to raise the Yankee staff ERA 1/2 point.  And these guys >>>    are on the down sides of their careers. >>Too bad they gave up on Randy Valarde.  Too many trips on the Columbus >>Shuttle! >  > Hrm? They still have him on the roster (16 AB through the first two weeks). > They've just never figured out what to do with him. I suspect that he hits > enough (especially vs. lefties) to be a reasonable shortstop. One rumor > running around during spring training was that they wanted to convert > Silvestri to be a catcher(!) because "his body type was wrong for a > shortstop".  You'd think that somebody in the same *division*, who plays > Baltimore about a dozen times a year, would know better. >  >  Mike Jones | AIX High-End Development | mjones@donald.aix.kingston.ibm.com >  > If one of our guys went down, I just doubled it. No confusion there. It > didn't require a Rhodes Scholar. If two of my teammates went down, four of > yours would. I had to protect my guys. > 	- Don Drysdale
In article <1r8rctINN8dd@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> cmk@athena.mit.edu (Charles M Kozierok) writes: >In article <franjion.735549550@spot.Colorado.EDU> franjion@spot.Colorado.EDU (John Franjione) writes: >  >} >	Griffey, well, most of it are intentional walks.   >}  >} Are you sure about this? > >i'd say pitching around him is more likely. >  	Yeah, maybe that is more likely.  But from the Mariners-Tigers  series, it seems like every time there are base runners, the pitchers  seem to purposely pitch around him or give him a free pass.  The  funny thing was that Griffey was struggling up until the last game of the four game series if I remember correctly.  - Chung Yang
Tuesday's game of Beloved Yakult Swallows  (At Jingu, 36,000) Hanshin Tigers   001 000 100 |2 Beloved Yakult   050 020 00x |7  W - Ito (1-0). L - Nakagomi (0-1). HR - Yakult, Arai 1st. ------------------------------------------------------------ CENTRAL LEAGUE STANDING ========================                         W   L   T   Pct.   GB Hiroshima Carp          7   1   0   .875   -- Chunichi  Dragons       6   3   0   .667   1.5 Hanshin   Tigers        5   4   0   .667   2.5 Hated     Giants        4   4   0   .500   3.0 Beloved   Swallows      3   6   0   .333   4.5 Yokohama  BayStars      1   8   0   .111   6.5 ---------------------------------------------------------------   --
In article <1993Apr17.212119.13901@coe.montana.edu> warped@cs.montana.edu   (Doug Dolven) writes: >  > Has anyone heard anything about Mel Hall this season?  I'd heard he   wasn't > with the Yankees any more.  What happened to him? >   He is in Japan playing baseball.
To all the Braves doubters:  Don't worry.  The bats will come alive, and the Braves will come around. The pitching is solid, and as long the Braves don't have serious injuries to the starting rotation, they'll continue to pitch well.  Heck, with the five starters on the Braves rotation, they could even sustain an injury to one of the five (I hope this doesn't happen, though).  The bats are there... Pendleton will certainly bat over .280, Justice is catching fire, Bream, Nixon, Sanders, Gant... well, there's too much offense there to be kept quiet for much longer.  Right now, the Cleveland Indians have 7 players batting over .300!  But I certainly wouldn't their seven for our respective seven (though wouldn't the Braves be something right now with their pitching and 7 players batting over .300?).  The bullpen... well, it IS suspect.  But when the bats come alive, the guys in the bullpen will be of less concern.  So anyway, I believe the Braves will be tough to beat this season.  I'm not saying the Braves have automatically won the division, but I'm optim- istic about their season (though it's awful painful to watch them at times right now).  Go Braves!!!
In article <1993Apr22.220456.377@bnlux1.bnl.gov>, kyee@bnlux1.bnl.gov (kenton yee) writes: >In article <93111.185620NXM122@psuvm.psu.edu> <NXM122@psuvm.psu.edu> writes: >>The Giants have won 8 of their last 10 games behind some solid pitching >>(excluding that 13-12 win against Atlanta).  If they can stay around first >>place after say the first 50 games, I think they've got a legitimate chance >>at winning the pennant (and maybe even more than that). > >Don't you remember that the Giants were in 1st place as late as >June last year?   Then their pitching collapsed....   Their problem >is they have (optimistically) only 2-3 good starting pitchers >(Swift,Brantly,and the bowler(can't remember his name));  the >other starters are extremely unreliable and often get blasted >before 4 innings... that means the already shallow bullpen gets >over worked.  This means after a few months, the bullpen collapses >and their post-all-star record tends to be much worst than >their pre-all-star record.        THe bowler is John Burkett, who went to 4-0 last night.  He is a bargain pickup on my roto team, I got him at a minimum of $5.  >   Just a thought... does someone have the won/lost pre/post >allstar records for the Giants the last few seasons?   I bet >their records tends to be worst and worst as the season goes on. >      This is not really true.  Excluding last season, the Giants has been a better 2nd half team.  In 1991, they had a hot August to pull to within a few games of the Braves and Dodgers before fading in September.      The Giants may go back to earth, but not as fast as last season for two reasons: (1)   Barry Bonds (2)   Roger Craig is no longer the manager.  Dusty can manage       his pitching staffs much better than Craig.
In article <wilbanks.734921387@spot.Colorado.EDU> wilbanks@spot.Colorado.EDU (Kokopeli) writes: > >My prediction: The Red Sox-Cubs Series and Vikings-Broncos SuperBore will >occur at the end of the world. > So, which one will officially be the end of the world? ;)  I can see the end of the WS now: "Well folks, here it is.  Bottom of the ninth; bases loaded; Full count on Sandberg in this 1-1 game.  Clemens winds, heres the pitch.  Swung on and it is a  line drive to center.  Zupcic moves to his left. He's there and..... *****ZOT******
During the local Rockies broadcast the other day Don Baylor went out to bring in a relief pitcher and a graphic came up on the screen that it was the "so and so sponsored" pitching  change. I saw another game where the pinch hitter was sponsored.  At other times during the game Rockies announcer Duane Kuiper was setting up the strategy that the defense might use with the expectation that Charlie Jones would jump in and discuss the situation. But what does Charlie do, he read's a beer advertisement and leaves Duane hanging. Duane's strategy proved prophetic.  These examples happen over and over on radio and T.V. braodcasts making them sometimes very boring to listen to.  I guess it's just a matter of time before a player sells his name to  Budweiser, Nike, etc.  I don't think it will be long until we hear: "Nike Budweiser drills it deep to left field, Chevrolet goes back, back, it's gone! The Apple Macintoshes (formerly the Boston Red Sox) are the 1998 World Champions!!!"  Back to work,  Anthony M. Jivoin National Center for Atmospheric Research RSF/ATD - FL1 P.O. Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307
In article <13555@news.duke.edu> fierkelab@bchm.biochem.duke.edu (Eric Roush) writes: > >Just a refresher...the baseballs came on the field during Sunday's >slugfest, when a Giant's patron refused to throw an Atlanta HR back.  	The garbage started hitting the field well before the Sunday game.  It started on Thursday or Friday (I can't recall which games I *didn't* watch on TBS).  Deion was getting pelted with trash the whole time, it seemed.  The announcers talked about the change in the seating in the bleachers, and how that made it easier for the events that transpired.  I actually thought at the start of the Sunday slugfest that since it was a Sunday daygame the crowd would be a little different, more refined.  Surprise?
In article <1993Apr21.173432.28160@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>, Mark B. writes...  >Yes, I could look it up but I prefer to post this question  >to the net... >I read somewhere in a long forgotten article that the handsignals  >used by major league umps were originally used to help a  >deaf ball player by the name of "Dummy". Urban myth? True?  >I gots ta know.  	Dummy Hoy, a late 19th-Century baseball player, was deaf.  In order for him to be able to find out whether the pitch was a ball or strike, the umpires developed hand signals.  This also helped to relieve the stress on umpires' vocal cords, so they didn't have to shout "STRIKE!!!" or "BALL!!!!!" 350 times a game... 	Heard about this one from the only worthwhile baseball book John Thorn has ever authored, "A Century of Baseball Lore" :-)  >  >Mark B. >mbrownel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca
In article <1r9hbsINNavr@shelley.u.washington.edu> dudgeon@opus.cheme.washington.edu writes: } pb6755@csc.albany.edu (BROWN PHILIP H) writes: }  } >I watched the final inning of Bosio's no-hitter with several people at } >work. After Vizquel made that barehanded grab of the chopper up the } >middle, someone remarked that if he had fielded it with his glove, he } >wouldn't have had time to throw Riles out. Yet, the throw beat Riles } >by about two steps. I wonder how many others who watched the final out } >think Vizquel had no choice but to make the play with his bare hand. }  } In this morning's paper (or was it on the radio?), Vizquel was quoted as } saying that he could have fielded the ball with his glove and still } easily thrown out Riles, that he barehanded it instead so as to make the } final play more memorable.  Seems a litle cocky to me, but he made it } work so he's entitled.  i guess so. still, that's kind of a stupid move, IMO. he'd be singing a different tune if he had booted it, and the next guy up had hit a bloop single. stranger things have happened (hey, i used to be a big Dave Stieb fan...) and unfortunately, there's no such thing as an "unearned hit". :^)  cheers,
scott@asd.com (Scott Barman) writes:  >In article <1993Apr15.195452.14672@scott.skidmore.edu> jrogoff@scott.skidmore.edu (jay rogoff) writes: >>Can anybody figure out why some box score abbreviations make >>absolutely no sense?  (At least in the local Gannett rag that finds its way >>to my door.)  I must have stared at "Cleman" in the Mets' box for a >>good 30 seconds this morning wondering who the hell it was.  Wouldn't >>it make more sense to use "Colemn"?  >I've seen it as "Colmn" also.  >Blame the Associated Press.  After the official scorer balances the >official score card, they copy it and give it to several diffent people.  >One of those is a person from AP whose job it is to type it up (using a >template on a laptop) and transmit it to the AP offices in New York >(Rockefeller Center) via the telephone.  The box scores are not checked >and just rebroadcasted over AP's news delivery services.  If there are >corrections, those are issued later.  It is the person sitting in front >of a laptop at Shea (or whereever) whose fault that is.  [NOTE: The AP >puts out boxscores in three different formats with the one you see in >most newspapers being the first one]  Not totally true.  For the past year or two, the AP has been getting box scores from STATS, Inc.  The AP representative in the press box is actually a STATS reporter ($25 dollars a game, but free parking.  And anybody can do it.)  The box is downloaded to STATS in Chicago, some quick error  checking is done, and then STATS sends it to the AP.  I'm not sure where the appreveiations come in hear.  I don't think it is at STATS's.  It may just be a space correction by the AP sports editor that day.   While I'm mentioning STATS reporters, they are always looking for new people.  Especially if you live in Cleveland or Pittsburgh, you're road to getting into the press box may be real short.  For more info, call  STATS (708) 676-3322, and ask about the reporter network.  It's a fun way to get paid for watching baseball games.  End of public service announcement.   >Last week they were in Denver.  Maybe the AP person in Denver did this >(remember, they just started with MLB out there).  Check tomorrow's >paper (4/21) and see if the person who is doing it from Shea does the >same thing. >--
"Todd Karlin" writes > I do not read Klapisch's news columns regularly, but I > do know that he has been accused before as being an instigator > that enjoys (hopefully for only professional reasons) to drumb > up a news story, even if there isn't one there.  Now as far as > the confrontation with Bobby Bonilla a few days ago, I almost > totally blame Bonilla.  No matter what a member of the press > does, and no matter how much of a putrid individual he might > be, that does not give a ballplayer the right to threaten a > journalist.    Bonilla wasn't threatening anyone.  He just wanted to give him the dollar  tour.  =^)
In article <1993Apr19.194025.8967@adobe.com>,  snichols@adobe.com (Sherri Nichols) writes:  	[stuff about Ron Gant incident deleted]  > A reasonable umpire would do as he's been instructed to do this season: get > the batters back in the box sooner to try to cut down on the ridiculous > length of games.  I for one am glad to see this happen, (!!!!)  	I agree that Hirschbeck was just doing what he was instructed to do and also that Gant should have listened to him.  However, what is with this policy of trying to speed up the games.  You are the first person  ( non-mediot ) I have seen endorse this policy.  I have no problem with the length of games at all and am tired of the ESPN crowd ( and other announcers ) bitching about it.  I have never been in a ballpark filled with people looking at their watches and shouting "Hurry up!"  If I cough up big bucks for a  ticket, I don't mind a game that last more than 2:10.  I really don't understand it.    	Games are longer now for several reasons:  more pitching changes, more basestealing ( and throws to first ), etc...I think a very small factor is the increased time it takes Jose Canseco/ Deion Sanders/ [insert fancy showboat ballplayer here] to arrange their jewelry prior to stepping in the batter's box.  My impression is that sportcasters and writers have made this an issue because they like shorter games - they get to head back to hotel bar, eat steaks, get drunk, tell stupid jokes with their pals and chase stewardesses around the bar.  Sure they want the game over with.  Print  journalists have a slightly more legitimate reason for wanting faster games: they have deadlines.  The ESPN guys on baseball tonight drive me crazy - they constantly harp on this - primarily because they often have to work late  when the game goes longer than 2:30.  	Maybe I am just a ne'er-do-well with nothing better to do, but I  would like to hear reasons why the longer games upset you.  	As a parenthetical note, it seems the league is in any case fighting a losing battle this year.  The increased offense thus far will certainly  spoil any hopes of getting the games over with more quickly.
In article <1993Apr19.024222.11181@newshub.ariel.yorku.ca> cs902043@ariel.yorku.ca (SHAWN LUDDINGTON) writes: >In article <1993Apr18.032345.5178@cs.cornell.edu> tedward@cs.cornell.edu (Edward [Ted] Fischer) writes: >>In article <1993Apr18.030412.1210@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> gspira@nyx.cs.du.edu (Greg Spira) writes: >>>Howard_Wong@mindlink.bc.ca (Howard Wong) writes: >>> >>>>Has Jack lost a bit of his edge? What is the worst start Jack Morris has had? >>> >>>Uh, Jack lost his edge about 5 years ago, and has had only one above >>>average year in the last 5. >> >>Again goes to prove that it is better to be good than lucky.  You can >>count on good tomorrow.  Lucky seems to be prone to bad starts (and a >>bad finish last year :-). >> >>(Yes, I am enjoying every last run he gives up.  Who was it who said >>Morris was a better signing than Viola?) >> >>Cheers, >>-Valentine > >Hey Valentine, I don't see Boston with any world series rings on their >fingers.  Damn, Morris now has three and probably the Hall of Fame in his  >future.  Therefore, I would have to say Toronto easily made the best  >signing.  And don't tell me Boston will win this year.  They won't  >even be in the top 4 in the division, more like 6th. > >Shawn >  Gee, I never knew Valentine made a comment about how Viola signing with Boston was gonna bring a World Series title to Boston.  I don't think Valentine ever said Boston will win this year.  Boy, talk about sensitive, insecure Toronto fans.  :)  In any case, I think Viola would have made a better signing.  Why? Viola is younger, and is left handed (how many left handed starters does Toronto have?
I Love it how all of these people are "blaming" the Phillies success  on a weak division.  Why don't we look at the record of the teams in  each division (READ: Inter-Divisional Play), we'll see that the East  is really kicking the shit out of the West.  I know it is early, but  that is all we have to go on.  Atlanta is just so strong with their  .188 BA, Cincinnati is 2-7 coming off a sweep at Veteran's Stadium in  Philadelphia, and Houston was swept in it's first three games by the  Phillies in the Astrodome.  That, my Western Division friends, shows  that the three best teams in your division may not be as strong as you  think!!  PHILS ALL THE WAY IN '93 BRAVES HIT LIKE A AAA CLUB REDS NEED MARGE
In article <mssC5w795.7G4@netcom.com>, Mark Singer writes:  > In article <C5vHLH.IDz@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> rstimets@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (robert and stimets) writes: >> >> >>In a game that saw a little of everything--incredible defense, some power, >>clutch pitching, and a little wildness--the Reds managed to overcome their >>trademark lack of timely hitting in crucial situations...  > During spring training I made a similarly innoncent-looking comment  > about clutch hitting on this bb and the flames were flying.  "no such > thing as clutch hitting" they (the SDCN's) all screamed.  I assumed > they also meant there was no such thing as any kind of clutch performance, > given their comments.    This is certainly not the case.  There is no significant *ability* toi perform in the clutch, but clutch performance certainly happens every time there is a game-winning hit.  The "clutch pitching" quoted above is something which happened, not a claim that any particular player should be expected to be a clutch pitcher.  > Over the past four seasons Sabo has had 59 hits in 259 abs defined as > clutch situations (by The Scouting Report) for an average of .228. > Over that same period he had another 1539 abs with 452 hits for an > average of .294.  > According to the rest of the SDCN's, any differential such as this is > completely and totally random and cannot be used for any reasonable > inference, such as perhaps Perez should have used a pinch hitter in > that situation.  Simple statistics tell me that there is a 2% chance an average clutch hitter would have this large a split (the average decrease is 7 points, standard deviation about 30).  There will be such hitters in any league, just as there will be hitters who hit poorly on Tuesdays.  And there is only a very weak correlation (.01 in my best study) between clutch hitting in the last four years and clutch hitting this year, probably because most of the clutch data is determinaed by luck rather than any ability.  *Based only on this data*, I don't see any reason to pinch-hit for Sabo, or any other player who had been a poor clutch hitter in the past.  But there are many other factors involved in a decision to pinch-hit. Does the pinch-hitter give you a platoon advantage?  (Any portion of Sabo's clutch split that results from his platoon split is certainly a real ability, even if it has nothing to do with clutch hitting.)  Do you have a singles hitter at the plate when you need a home run?  Do you have a curveball pitcher facing a batter who has trouble with curves?
In article <C5JC3z.KnD@news.udel.edu>, philly@ravel.udel.edu (Robert C Hite) wrote: > WIP took two of your > best sports jockeys too, Jody MacDonald and Steve Fredericks.   DUDE!  Are you nuts?  WFAN is second to none.  Jody Mac's exit was quite a loss, but if you think Fredericks On The FAN was much of one, you're pretty skewed.
Jiann-ming Su writes > Bobby Bonilla supposedly use the word 'faggot' when he got mad at that author > in the clubhouse.  Should he be banned from baseball for a year like Schott?  It wouldn't bother me...
In article <1993Apr5.165122.19860@cs.cornell.edu> tedward@cs.cornell.edu (Edward [Theodorus RedSox Fannus] Fischer) writes: > >Sorry, this doesn't fly.  The good players have *always* been ready >for the majors early.  How many HOFers were *not* contributing major >leaguers by the time they were 22?    That brings up an interesting point. Anyone else catch ESPN's piece about prospects and the relationship between age, career length, MVPs and Hall of Fame members? It was part of their preseason special. Basically, they looked  at players that had amassed 1000 plate appearances (or ABs) by the time they were 24, and noticed some interesting things.     For starters, they found out such players comprised the majority of MVPs in the history of the game. They also found out such players represented the majority of the players in the hall of fame. The kicker, though, was that they actually did some number-crunching and found that such players' careers lasted much longer than the careers of players not in that group. They also   found that these players produced at both a greater level of performance and produced over twice the raw totals (HRs, etc) of the other players. The first group outhit the second something like .282 to .260 in raw BA, and blew away the second group in such categories as HRs, 2Bs, RBIs, etc.     It was the most impressive thing I've seen on ESPN in recent memory.     I guess Ray Knight makes his rebuttal tonight.
I've never heard of the Bob Dylan Baseball Abstract, but I am curious. Could someone clue me in?  -- -------------------------- Phil Brown                | aka pb6755@csc.albany.edu |
In article <C5Hq3o.G4p@tss.com> hanson@tss.com (Hanson Loo) writes: >Didn't Bob Horner go straight from Arizona State Univ. >to the Atlanta Braves? I remember he had one great >month hitting dingers and then the next I heard >he was in Japan.  A month?  Well, he did have a short career--compared to what one might have expected for such a highly touted prospect--due to being injury prone, overweight, and having no work ethic.  But he certainly did not suffer from being rushed to the bigs.