data.3news-bydate.test.rec.sport.baseball.102635 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (David K. Lowenthal)
Subject: Re: Giants' GM Quinn *is* a genius!
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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In article [email protected] (Randy Palermo) writes:
>Will Clark
>Matt Williams
>Robbie Thompson
>Rod Beck........All came up through the Giants system.
Geez. Everyone comes up with Clark, Williams, Thompson. These guys
were all up in 1987. That's ancient history. So in the last 6 years,
noone, right? Beck doesn't count. I said 2 solid years.
>BTW, Manwaring lead the ML last season in throwing out baserunners. He is
>an excellent defensive catcher. I agree that his offensive skills are
>limited but he does seem to be improving on them.
Let's see what he does w/o the help of a pitchout every other pitch.
As I remember, even Bob Brenly had a good throwout percentage under
Roger Craig, who loved to sacrifice the count for runners being thrown
out. Of course, he suffered from 3 ball 1 strike homers a lot too.
I am not a big fan of Manwaring.
--dave