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Originally Posted by splat58
Also the disrespect for good glove / no hit shortstops. Larry Bowa always gets waived by Philly in the early 1970's. In 2 straight leagues I started in 1975, St. Louis trades for Winston Llenas & installs him at SS and leaves Dal Maxvill on the bench. Llenas was a helluva MiL hitter but never hit in the Bigs & wasn't much of a glove at short. He ends up with big negative range factors.
Starting in 1969, Detroit plays Mickey Stanley at SS & Jim Northrup in CF. Makes great sense offensively & Stanley was average defensively. But Northrup finished 1969 with a negative 52.6 ZR in CF. He improved to negative 7.7 in 1970. The Tigers would have been better served by playing Stanley in CF & a real SS.
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I've had good luck in terms of SS so far in my game. Bowa is still starting for the Phils, Dent is starting for the Sox. Belanger is still the O's SS. Campi is still starting for the A's and Brinkman is still plugging along for the Tigers. Yount is a strange one, as he's started both 74 and 75 playing 2B with Gorman Thomas manning SS. But, each season the AI finally rights the ship and gets him at SS where he belongs. In 75 it actually looks like Thomas may be ready to permanently move to the OF.
Strange deal about the day Stoneman threw that no hitter pictured above. Dave Rozema threw a 1 hitter against the Baltimore Orioles that very same day. Rozema has been awful for most of his rookie year, but managed to right the ship for at least one game....we will have to see if he's turned the corner leaving suckatude in his rear view mirror.
Clay Carroll was pretty untouchable for the Reds over the first two month of the season. Carroll was nailing down each and every save opportunity handed him and rolling with an ERA in the low 1's. The the final week of June came and Carroll has now blown his last 3 save opportunities and picked up 3 straight losses in doing so. His ERA is now approaching the mid 3's. He has 19 saves on the season which matches his season total for the 73 and 74 seasons.
Meanwhile I'm starting to think no lead is to large for Steve Foucalt to blow. Dude might be the worst closer in baseball history. He was recently brought into a 13-2 game and before you could blink it was 13-9. Recently the Rangers have show signs they may be ready to try someone else in the role of closer, but only time will tell. Tom Murphy of the Angels is another closer that's starting to implode. Rollie Fingers on the other hand is on a torrid pace with in the hood of 27 saves already in 75.