Word: torrez
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...barring injuries, nine spots seem fairly certain. Those nine belong to returnees Dennis Eckersley, Mike Torrez, Chuck Rainey, (although his arm is questionable). Bob Stanley, Dick Drago, Tom Burgmeier and the rehabilitated Bill Campbell, plus newcomers Frank Tanana and Mark Clear (both from California). That leaves one spot--and 12 pitchers...
Obviously, a great deal is riding on the young arms. If Tanana's arm isn't better, if Campbell cana't make the comeback, if Rainey isn't the same and if Torrez confinues his inadequacy, the Sox will need plenty of work from the kids to go anywhere...
...Mike Torrez was pitching for the Sox and through six innings had managed an untidy shutout. He had thrown hundreds of pitches, it seemed, and baserunners were much in evidence. None, however, had scored. An epochal Jim Rice home run with no one on in the fourth provided the only score...
Dave McNally is a happy man, but on December 4, 1974, he was not happy. On that day, McNally, Rich Coggins and Ed Kirkpatrick were traded from the Orioles to the Montreal Expos, for Mike Torrez and Ken Singleton. McNally did not want to play in Montreal. He decided to sue major league baseball...
After a miserable start this season, caused mostly by anemic pitching, the Sox are back on track and will probably pose a threat to the streaking Yanks before the campaign concludes. The starting pitching trio of Dennis Eckersley, Bob Stanley and Mike Torrez at one point possessed a combined record of 3-13, but has recently gone 9-3. Rice and Burleson have regained their hitting strokes, temporarily missing in action. Fisk has rebounded from the latest in a series of debilitating injuries, while Lynn, Remy and Perez have provided impressive offensive production. Following the onset of an unsettling cynicism...