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From: schneider@vlnvax.DEC
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Subject: Re: Winfield for Evans and Gedman
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Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 18:08:22 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 23 18:08:22 1985
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> Last night, Tony Kubek passed on a trade rumor he had heard.
>  
> **** Dave Winfield  for  Dwight Evans & Rich Gedman ****
>  
> Can you imagine Dave Winfield playing in Fenway park for the rest of
> his career? He would be almost a shoo-in for the Hall of Fame.
>  
> And how about adding Evans to the Yankee line-up. They could start
> their batting order with,
>                               Henderson
>                               Evans
>                               Mattingly.
>                            Bruce Gamble  -  abgamble@water.UUCP

Lucky for New York fans, it was just a rumor.  At any rate, my first reaction
was:  They'd better not trade Winfield for anybody.

The next day in the Globe, Peter Gammons squashed the rumor and then went 
overboard by saying that the Sox wouldn't trade Gedman for Winfield even-up.
I'd love to debate Gammons on this in a fair forum, the guy gets away with
so much crap, but the Globe only rarely prints negative sports letters
and then only when the situation gets out of hand (ie. ML Carr's thuggery).

I do give Gedman a lot of credit; he has emerged as one of the top catchers 
in the AL, but Gammons immediately vaults him to number one property catcher
in baseball, quotes an unknown source bestowing Gedman the "Best Arm Award"
and does nothing to discount the effect Fenway Park has on his offensive
totals.  Any comments?

		Daniel Schneider
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