Word: bullpens
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...result of Finley's wheeling and dealing is the best team in baseball. Today's A's have speed, brilliant defense, clutch hitting, good starting pitching and an excellent bullpen. Last week the team held a 6½ game lead in the American League West. The players are the first to praise Finley's work. "He's a hell of a general manager," says Tenace. Adds Jackson: "Charlie will do anything to make his team better." That said, they still hate Finley with a passion. Mention his name in the clubhouse, and the quick response is a vehement "Screw that bastard...
...pitching staff ranges from erratic to pathetic: the team tends to win games by scores like 11: 8, 10-9, a match of 7-5 is a veritable duel of greathurlers. An Earned Run Average of 3.50 is unheard of, and the relief pitching is so bad that the bullpen ought to be seized by a people's tribunal and converted into several homes for working-class families. Even the cheerleading Boston press has become exasperated with this bunch: Globe columnist Bob Ryan in a recent evaluation of the team that drew much are from the more reverent fans, wrote...
...ball that night are particularly edifying. In fact, his curve ball can be quite fine--he's second in the rotation and has one of the best pick-off motions in beautiful. A California, a health food fanatic, he may be seen from the bleachers practicing, yoga in the bullpen on afternoons when the planers are right...
...because I could pitch," he recalls in a languorous Texas drawl. "My idea of pitching was to throw as hard as you could." That he did, walking batters by the dozen. His difficulties were not eased by chronic blisters on his pitching fingers or long stints in the bullpen...
...hard to imagine where an organization could find a man who was willing to discuss the only the implementation of the bonus plan--its bureaucratic impossibilities, and government meddling. But the YAF reached into its libertarian bullpen and produced the agreeable Rusher. This slow, just plain boring speaker (one Yale dean lunged for a book which he gleefully read upside down for a couple of pages in mid-argument) never moved beyond the gospel according to William F. Buckley. His laissez-faire attitude even extended to his unpolished debating techniques, apparently not improved by his stint...