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8/1/2002 -
Arizona went 15-10 for the month to pull with 6 games of San Diego in the NL West, and within 3 1/2 games of Pittsburgh in the Wild Card race.
We explored a couple of deals at the deadline, but couldn't find a way to improve the team that was either cost effective, or too costly in terms of players we would need to give up. We turned our attention to free agent Mike Mussina, who has been out of baseball since last year, and 1B Bobby Bonilla. Last year Mussina was terrible, going 8-15 with a 5.60 ERA, but if I can get him to agree to a deal he could be better than Josh Fogg.
Bonilla is 39, and hopefully he'll have some left in his tank. Neither has agreed to a deal yet, but I expect they will and can suit up in August. We also look forward to the return of Matt Clement in 3 weeks.
Juan Gonzalez reached another milestone this month, collecting the 2000th hit of his career. Gonzalez was Arizona's lone All-Star representative this season.
Quilvio Veras finished the month with a 23 game hitting streak.
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