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...draft and negotiate a contract with the team that picks him; if he's a resident of a third country, teams are free to bid for his services. That's the route Livan took before signing a $4.5 million contract with the Marlins. Since Orlando reportedly an even better pitcher than his brother, the Series MVP, execs from deep-pocketed teams such as the Yankees will be on the first plane to Nassau the moment a deal is worked...
DIED. STEVE HAMILTON, 62, Yankee relief pitcher who patented baseball's version of the lob, the "Folly Floater"; of colon cancer; in Morehead...
DIED. RUSS MEYER, 74, hot-tempered pitcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers and other teams; of heart failure; in Oglesby, Ill. Over the course of 13 seasons, Meyers pitched in three World Series, but his most memorable performance was a dugout tantrum in 1953 that justified his moniker, "the Mad Monk...
...Meanwhile, a team that's already well down the road the Marlins are on found themselves in the bizarre, but increasingly common, position of celebrating a Cy Young winner at the same time as entertaining trade offers for him. Pedro Martinez was named the National League's top pitcher after dominating the league last season with a 17-8 record and 1.90 ERA. The award can only help the Expos, now little more than a Major League farm team for clubs with deeper pockets, deal Martinez to a team such as the Yankees that can afford to pay Cy Young...
...tableau last Tuesday night at Turner Field in Atlanta had a richness that had nothing to do with Huizenga's money. There was Bobby Bonilla hugging Leyland, his old Pittsburgh manager. There was rookie pitcher Livan Hernandez, the Cuban defector who was the NLCS MVP, climbing into a knot of Marlin fans in the stands and shouting two of the few English words he knows, "World Series! World Series!" And an hour after the game, there was Huizenga taking a victory lap around the bases...