Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site fisher.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!astrovax!fisher!david
From: david@fisher.UUCP (David Rubin)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: The Pitts - (nf)
Message-ID: <194@fisher.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 9-Jul-84 08:18:33 EDT
Article-I.D.: fisher.194
Posted: Mon Jul  9 08:18:33 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 10-Jul-84 01:47:00 EDT
References: <292@ism780.UUCP>
Organization: Princeton Univ. Statistics
Lines: 15

Trading every day players for pitchers is not necessarily bad.
Chicago, for one, has greatly improved their chances by trading some
hitting, of which they had plenty, for some pitching, of which they
were desparately short.

Pittsburgh's problems (here comes the 20-20 hindsight) is their front
office. Last year, the Pirates had the top staff in the league (and
they're still one of the best this year). So what moves do they make
in the off season? Let Parker go via free agency and trade Easler for
Tudor, i.e. get even more pitching and lose gobs of hitting. Is this
sanity? Is it any surprise that their offense has collapsed? Are these
rhetorical questions?

					David Rubin
			{allegra|astrovax|princeton}!fisher!david