Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!ucbvax!decwrl!schneider@vlnvax.DEC From: schneider@vlnvax.DEC Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball Subject: Re: Winfield for Evans and Gedman Message-ID: <553@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 18:08:22 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.553 Posted: Mon Sep 23 18:08:22 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 25-Sep-85 03:41:53 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 32 > 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 {decvax}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-vlnvax!schneider