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Matt wrote:
> I had given this some thought but was not sure
> how to handle it.... IRL, the Yankees were the
> last team to integrate, and I believe their owner
> was a racist, from what I've heard... I wonder if
> that played a part somehow, since Hung got
> yanked after doing so well in favor of March
> and Ditty? Now, they felt compelled to play
> him with Moonlight aging & Ditty off at war...
> They wanted to keep up their winning ways
> afterall.
That does make "sense" from a storyline standpoint. I don't think anyone can complain about Ditty playing, and lord knows that Mets will hunt me down if I say anything less than flattering about a second Ditty. :P He was the hot young prospect coming down the line after the year after Ping.
March and Moonlight were the killers. They just suddenly pulled March out of their rear in 1937, and he played so well in 1937 and 1938 that the job pretty much was his despite being older than Ping or what Ping had done in the past. Moonlight had excellent years in 37-38 as well, so you could see why they would want him in the line-up. One could see wanting to have the four of them for "depth", but if they were going to keep all of them, they needed to set up a rotation that tried to get all of them 500+ PA. If not, they really should have tried to trade Moonlight while he had value.
John
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