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While the Yankees dominated the off-season with their ballyhooed signing of free-agent Outfielder Dave Winfield, the Orioles were quietly acquiring less expensive but perhaps equally valuable utility players. Manager Earl Weaver, the man of a million statistics and even more stratagems, gleefully analyzed his new acquisitions: "First we got Jim Dwyer, who can both pinch hit and shore up our late-inning outfield defense. He can play first base too, so that gives us options in the infield as well. Then there's José Morales, who batted .303 as a designated hitter with Minnesota last year...
...question is, can a young Crimson team, playing without superscooper Rick Pearce and scrappy Bobby Kelley anchoring the infield and fast, rangy Charlie Santos-Buch ruling the outfield for the first time in an Olympiad, get mature enough fast enough to repeat as champs? The answer follows...
...Outfield: Another freshman will tell the story here. Bruce Weller takes over for Santos-Buch in center, and according to coach Alex Nahigian, his range is comparable to the departed. If this is true, and Weller is at least an average hitter, Harvard has hit the jackpot again. Although not usually considered a skill position, a swift, dependable center fielder is a rare commodity, and finding two in arow is almost too much...
Allard and Martelli will also see action in the outfield, and both earned their stirrup socks with honor there last season. Allard, who started in left for most of the early going a year ago, made a game-saving, sliding catch on the way to an errorless campaign...
Joining Jakovie in the outfield will be slugger Elaine Holpuch in left and Ippolito in right...