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From: mykes@3comvax.UUCP (Mike Schwartz)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: Give Orosco a break
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Date: Tue, 7-Jan-86 14:00:36 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan  7 14:00:36 1986
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Orosco is not bad, just not (in my opinion) the stopper that the Mets
say he is.  He certainly is no Bruce Sutter (who may be washed up, as
he demonstrated last year), or Dave Righetti (an outstanding starter
and consistent - so far - great reliever).  If Orosco has a real good
season next year, people will probably have a higher opinion of him.
But realistically, the only NL teams that I can think of who would
use Orosco as their relief ACE are those without such a guy already.
Orosco would be a setup man for teams like the Cubs (Lee Smith),
LA (Niedenfuer), SD (the Goose), Atlanta (Sutter), etc.

The Mets have done an outstanding job of turning themselves into winners.
I don't think that they were as good in '84 as they were last year, but
after playing way above their heads in '84, they made some dynamite
trades (Carter for nothing, for example) and they are now consistent
contenders.

Some players seem to be winners everywhere they go, like Joe Morgan, and
some seem to be losers, like Carter.  Gary Carter is clearly the best
all-around catcher in Baseball since Johnny Bench, but it seems like
you can put him on a team of All-stars and that team would finish 2nd
somehow.

Good luck to the Mets, but I am a hopeless Cubs fan (I have seen
450 games on WGN over the last 3 years), and you can guess where
my hopes lie.  I do like all baseball teams, though, and I try to
stay objective.

/mykes