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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...
Considering Baltimore's pitching staff, Weaver's math may be accurate. Last year Steve Stone captured the Cy Young Award with 25 wins and just seven losses, the best record in the big leagues. In the past eight seasons, Baltimore pitchers have won the award five tunes: Mike Flanagan in 1979, Jim Palmer three other years...
...home runs and hitting .304. First Baseman Eddie Murray, who hit .300, has emerged as one of baseball's best switch-hitters, with 111 home runs in merely four seasons. The only question mark is Third Baseman Doug DeCinces, who is recovering from a back injury. Says Weaver: "If Doug can hit his usual 15 to 20 home runs, then you can add another three games. Let's see. . . that gives us 106, doesn...
Darryll Deever (William Hurt), a young Vietnam Veteran, works as a janitor and dreams of meeting Tony Sokolow (Sigouney Weaver), a beautiful television reporter. When a man is murdered, Deever pretends to know more than he does--to attract Tony. He discovers that his innocent lies attract more than the reporter: the killers want him; the victim's cohorts want him; the police want him and Tony Sokolow only wants the story...
...Weaver, on the other hand, seems indifferent to her role as Tony Sokolow. The spunk and verve with which she approached her character in Alien freezes this time. Unfortunately, that seems to be a problem typical of "love interests": she never becomes more than a foil for Deever...