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| 301.1 | MY Picks | WMOIS::CHAPALONIS_M | NEW YORK YANKEES WORLD CHAMPS | Sat Mar 29 1997 10:14 | 67 |
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AL EAST
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1. New York From top to bottom best pitching staff in the majors???
2. Toronto Clemens and Hentgen both win 20
3. Baltimore Myers too inconsistent.
4. Boston Pitching Stinks, Mo hits 45 Dingers
5. Detroit Pitching Stinks, Hunter 45 SB's
AL Central
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1. Cleveland Just edges out Chicago, Shuey turns into a dominate closer
2. Chicago Belle or Thomas breaks Maris's record
3. Milwaukee Young OF keeps them in the hunt
4. Kansas City Not much to be proud of Appier than???????????????
5. Minnesota Radke and Knoblauch only 2 bright spots
AL WEST
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1. Texas Too much Pitching and Defense!!
2. Seattle RJ spends lots of time on the DL
3. Oakland Bash Brothers part DUex!!!
4. Anaheim Still a year away...
NL East
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1 Florida Wow this team is loaded!!!
2 Atlanta Trades hurt them in the short term
3 NY Mets Some of the Young Pitchers actually pitch well
4 Montreal Too young
5 Philly PeeeeeeeeeUUUUUUUUU
NL Central
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1. Houston Bagwell Biggio and Luis Gonzales.....
2. Chicago Rojas All World
3. Cincinatti Lots of Q's?????
4. St Louis Fall back some Benes'sss have a rough year.
5. Pittsburgh Send them to Hartford
NL WEST
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1. Colorado Lots of POP. Galaragga (sp) makes a run at Maris too.
2. LA Pitching Pitching Pitching
3. SD Irabu comes back and.........
4. SF If ever there was a one man show!!!
AL WC Chicago
NL WC Atlanta
AL Champ Da Yanks
NL Champ Da Marlins
WS Champ YANKEES REPEAT!!!!
AL MVP Albert Belle
NL MVP Andres Galarraga
AL ROY Todd Walker
NL ROY Tony Womack
AL CY Roger Clemens
NL CY Ramon Martinez
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| 301.2 | | SALEM::LEVESQUE_T | Oh, yeah! The boy can PLAY! | Sat Mar 29 1997 20:04 | 14 |
| Clemens winning 20 and the CY? Nah. I enough people believed that, he
would still be with Boston. I'll give him credit for pitching the
whole year and not landing on the DL. Could he win 15 or 16? Maybe.
But no way is he in the hunt for the CY award.
Yankees repeat? I think the Blue Jays were the last to repeat, which
actually wasn't so long ago. But I think the odds are too long to
repeat. I'm not sure they'll even get to the series.
I think there is still a trade or two coming that could change the
balance of power. Chicago and Cleveland could be very close this year.
Texas, after a taste of the playoffs could be the dark horse.
Ted
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| 301.3 | | CSC32::MACGREGOR | Colorado: the TRUE mid-west | Sat Mar 29 1997 20:58 | 19 |
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>Clemens winning 20 and the CY? Nah. I enough people believed that,
>he would still be with Boston. I'll give him credit for pitching the
>whole year and not landing on the DL. Could he win 15 or 16? Maybe.
>But no way is he in the hunt for the CY award.
Why not? Clemens had a better ERA than Pettite last year and Fenway is
much more a hitters park than Yankee Stadium. So Pettite wins 21 games
and Clemens only 10. Guess that makes Pettite more than twice as
valuable than Clemens for a given season.
I'll bet that Clemens ends the season something like 18-8 with a 3.80
ERA and 4 complete games (unless the manager decides to pull him in
favor of Timlin in a good game anyways).
Put Clemens in last years Yankee rotation and he wins 20 games easily.
Marc
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| 301.4 | | ROCK::HUBER | From Seneca to Cuyahoga Falls | Mon Mar 31 1997 09:53 | 65 |
| AL EAST
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1. Baltimore
2. Boston
3. Toronto
4. New York
5. Detroit
AL Central
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1. Cleveland
2. Chicago
3. Minnesota
4. Kansas City
5. Milwaukee
AL WEST
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1. Seattle
2. Oakland
3. Texas
4. Anaheim
NL East
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1 Atlanta
2 Montreal
3 Florida
4 NY Mets
5 Philly
NL Central
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1. Cincinatti
2. St Louis
3. Chicago
4. Pittsburgh
5. Houston
NL WEST
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1. SD
2. Colorado
3. LA
4. SF
AL WC Oakland
NL WC St Louis
AL Champ Indians
NL Champ Braves
WS Champ Indians
AL MVP Alex Rodriguez
NL MVP Barry Bonds
AL ROY Todd Walker
NL ROY Scott Rolen
AL CY Charles Nagy
NL CY Greg Maddux
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| 301.5 | Anaheim, Cinci, Sandiego | MKOTS3::BREEN | From Thurs to Sunday | Mon Mar 31 1997 10:01 | 22 |
| East
Baltimore has an edge. Yankees are going backwards.
Boston,Toronto have potential but questions.
Central
Chicago, Cleveland. Of other three one may surprise.
West.
Anaheim in a surprise. Oakland has potential. Seattle SOS.
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East
Atlanta saved pennant. Florida way overrated as is Sheffield.
Central.
Cincinatti back to its old ways.
West.
I liked SanDiego until they axed Reed. Why mess around with a good
team. SanFran ultimate darkhorse.
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| 301.6 | Greenwell will flop in Japan. | CAM::WAY | and keep me steadfast | Mon Mar 31 1997 10:11 | 9 |
| If it weren't for Detriot, Dan Duquette's Fanstay Baseball Team (run by the
stats geek from Noo Yawk) would finish dead last.
Leyland's Marlins look hot.
Yanks won't repeat......
'Saw
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| 301.7 | | ROCK::GRONOWSKI | The *PACK* is back | Mon Mar 31 1997 10:22 | 4 |
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Cleveland will smoke Chicago, bank on it. Chicago's pitching is poor
and Ventura's loss is going to kill them.
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| 301.8 | | MKOTS3::BREEN | From Thurs to Sunday | Mon Mar 31 1997 10:56 | 15 |
| . <<< Note 301.6 by CAM::WAY "and keep me steadfast" >>>
. -< Greenwell will flop in Japan. >-
Chainsaw,
You're a little late. The Greenwell Japan experiment died with
some uniquely Greenwellian injury and he's out for the season if not
forever.
billte
You're right about the Yanks though. They were built by Bucky and
Torre is a good bench manager but The Idiot will ruin them and they
won't be repeating anything this year except the 80s misery for their
fans.
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| 301.9 | | CLUSTA::MAIEWSKI | Braves, 1914 1957 1995 WS Champs | Mon Mar 31 1997 11:04 | 69 |
| AL EAST
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1. New York They've got the horses
2. Toronto They've got the pitchers
3. Baltimore Roberto Alomar sets record: Most times mugged by fans
4. Boston Rebuilding
5. Detroit Retooling
AL Central
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1. Chicago Big Hurt hits #62 then talks Belle down from tower
2. Cleveland McDowell crumbles. "Nagy and Ogea, hope for a rain day"
3. Minnesota Todd Walker, best up and coming player at 3rd
4. Milwaukee Jeff Cirillo, another best up and coming player at 3rd
5. Kansas City New wave of Dey in the wool fans
AL WEST
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1. Seattle Mr. Snappy is enough in a weak division
2. Texas Close second, far from the wild card
3. Oakland Young players, fun to watch
4. Anaheim M-I-C, K-E-Y, M-O-U-S-E
NL East
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1 Atlanta GO BRAVES!!!!
2 Florida Jim Leyland with talent. In Braves tail pipes all year
3 Montreal Yet more young players, fun to watch
4 NY Mets Pitchers top ER and Chicago Hope for hospital ratings
5 Philly What a mess!
NL Central
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1. St Louis Tony La Russa wins weak division
2. Cincinatti Marge returns (somehow), finds new way to snap defeat ...
3. Chicago Gott'ah love'em.
4. Pittsburgh Still more young players much fun to watch
5. Houston "And this time if you don't show up we move to Alaska"
NL WEST
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1. San Diego Rebuilding pays off
2. Los Angles Always overachieving
3. Colorado Runs, runs, runs
4. San Francisco "At least we're not the Phillies"
The Playoffs
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AL WC Toronto Some of those pitchers have to win
NL WC Florida Second best record in the league
AL Champ White Sox Best hitting & enough pitching, get it done
NL Champ Braves GO BRAVES!!!!!
WS Champ Braves GO BRAVES!!!!!!!!!!
The Awards
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AL MVP Frank Thomas Big hurt has career year hitting ahead of Belle
NL MVP Gary Sheffield Bonds can't get enough votes from cellar
AL ROY Todd Walker A new star is born
NL ROY Andruw Jones World Series MVP, "What do I do when I turn 20?"
AL CY Randy Johnson Hit batters wins'em "Friends of Orthopedics" award
NL CY Kevin Brown Writers tired of voting for Braves
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| 301.10 | Chicago's pitching not THAT bad... | SALEM::LEVESQUE_T | Oh, yeah! The boy can PLAY! | Mon Mar 31 1997 15:36 | 45 |
| Strengths: Power offense, starting pitching, closer.
Weaknesses: Middle relief, outfield defense.
Starting pitching: The rotation loses RHs Alex Fernandez
and Kevin
Tapani, who combined for 4831/3 innings in '96, and
replaces them with
RHs Jaime Navarro and Doug Drabek. Navarro, signed as a
free agent, had
29 wins for the Chicago Cubs the last two seasons, one
more than
Fernandez. Navarro's contract was $20 million, $16
million cheaper than
Fernandez got from Florida. Drabek has started 30 games
in eight of the last
nine seasons and allowed three runs or fewer in 18 of his
30 starts. The
White Sox's best pitcher this spring is LH Wilson
Alvarez, who has built
enough confidence in his changeup to throw it for strikes
any time. Alvarez's
challenge is to keep from tiring at the end as he did
last season when his
ERA jumped to 5.05 for August and 7.43 for September. The
fifth starter
will be either RH Danny Darwin or LH Mike Bertotti.
Bullpen: An inexperienced middle-relief staff cost the
White Sox a playoff
spot in '96, but they have one of the best closers in the
AL. RH Roberto
Hernandez, who throws close to 100 mph, had 38 saves and
a 1.91 ERA
last season. Having LH Tony Castillo is a big help,
though, because he's
durable and difficult for right-handed batters to hit
(.241 average vs. Castillo
last season). The Sox were hoping RH Roger McDowell
(shoulder surgery)
would be a setup pitcher, but he will not be ready,
leaving the job to others
such as RHs Bill Simas, Matt Karchner, Jeff Darwin and
Alan Levine all
good pitchers but lacking setup experience.
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| 301.11 | Some questions on Cleveland's staff... | SALEM::LEVESQUE_T | Oh, yeah! The boy can PLAY! | Mon Mar 31 1997 15:43 | 39 |
| Strengths: Offense, defense, bullpen.
Weaknesses: Rotation could get too young and too old at
the same time.
Starting pitching: The biggest key is for RH Jack
McDowell to return after
an injury-filled 1996 season that he says was the worst
of his career. Still,
McDowell pitched into the seventh inning in 20 of 30
starts and turned in a
good showing this spring. The Indians were 56-30 in games
started by RHs
Charles Nagy, Orel Hershiser and Chad Ogea. Nagy, the '96
American
League All-Star starter, is the most consistent (29-7
since July 1995) with a
split-finger pitch and curveball. Nagy's among the elite,
but he doesn't get a
lot of recognition. AL batters pounded Hershiser at a
.341 clip until June; he
put together a 3.09 ERA in his last 21 starts. Ogea shows
promise. The fifth
starter is RH Albie Lopez, but the rotation also could
see LH Brian
Anderson or RH Bartolo Colon, the Indians' best pitching
prospect.
Bullpen: The Indians should have the AL's best bullpen if
RH Jose Mesa
(85 saves last two seasons) gets his legal problems
resolved. He'll spend the
first two weeks in court on sex and weapons charges. Mesa
has an
incredible sinker and slider. He'll be set up by
hard-throwing RHs Eric
Plunk, Mike Jackson and Paul Shuey. There's also LH Paul
Assenmacher,
who leads relievers in this decade with 445 appearances.
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| 301.12 | Some questions on rebels staff too | ROCK::GRONOWSKI | The *PACK* is back | Mon Mar 31 1997 17:27 | 4 |
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Navvarro was never successful in the AL. Drabek is over the hill.
Alvarez is not a #1 starter. Believe what you want, the starting
pitching is not a strength.
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| 301.13 | Red Sox will get swept in playoffs | TNPUBS::NAZZARO | UMass in 1998 - Final Four! | Tue Apr 01 1997 16:33 | 51 |
| AL East:
1. Boston - Just when you think they suck, they surprise you.
2. New Tork - Wetteland loss prevents repeat.
3. Baltimore - Key helps, but they're still one good starter short.
4. Toronto - Clemens ain't that good anymore.
5. Detroit - Should be relegated to AAA.
AL Central:
1. Cleveland - Will win a lot of 12-9 games.
2. Kansas City - The surprise team of baseball.
3. Minnesota - They'll have a nice season.
4. Chicago - Lost too much pitching, and Ventura.
5. Milwaukee - Another anonymous season.
AL West:
1. Texas - In a dogfight.
2. Seattle - COuld win if Randy Johnson is all the way back.
3. Oakland - A fun team to watch, and dangerous.
4. The best last place team in AL, by far.
NL East:
1. Atlanta - It won't be close.
2. Florida - All the money in the world can only buy 2nd place.
3. Montreal - Wish this team was in a town that would appreciate them.
4. New York - Still two years away.
5. Philadelphia - Still light years away.
NL Central:
1. Houston - Best of a weak division.
2. Cincinnati - Deion Sanders will help.
3. St. Louis - Dennis Eckersley finally runs out of gas.
4. Chicago - Loss of Navarro decimates already weak pitching staff.
5. Pittsburgh - Will not be a disgrace.
NL West:
1. San Diego - Best of a mediocre lot.
2. Los Angeles - Lots of good pieces, but a bad fit.
3. Colorado - The name of the game is pitching, guys.
4. San Francisco - Better than last year, but not good enough.
NAZZ
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