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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, JUNE 14. 1979
‘Bull’ Boston hound, ‘Boomer to KC
United Press International
PHILADELPHIA — Houston
Astros slugger Bob Watson, who has
spent a good part of the season on
the bench, said Wednesday night
he’s going to the Boston Red Sox
with “a tremendously positive at
titude” and said: “I hope I can help
lead them to the American League
pennant.”
Watson, 33, who has spent his
entire 15-year professional baseball
career with Houston, said he was
disappointed in a way to be traded
but said he didn’t have any hard
feelings toward the Astros manage
ment.
“I have mixed emotions,” Watson
said. “I have been in that organiza
tion 15 years and there are a lot of
memories, good and bad. But I am
delighted the Boston Red Sox want
my services. They are a class organi
zation with a lot of all-star players. ”
Watson, who was in street clothes
for the Astros-Phillies game Wed
nesday night, is due to join Boston
in Chicago Friday for the start of a
weekend series against the White
Sox.
He said he is willing to play any
position, including designated hit
ter.
“I am sure they (the Red Sox) will
bring up some of my talents. I am
going there with a tremendously
positive attitude,” he said.
Nevertheless, Watson said: “I am
disappointed in a way. I feel I didn’t
get a chance to get myself back on
the track. But I don’t have any hard
feelings. I am not going to rip the
ballclub or call anybody any dirty
names. ”
Watson, a .299 lifetime hitter who
slumped to .239 in 49 games this
season, said he has no plans to
change his hitting style to take ad
vantage of Boston’s short left field
wall — Fenway Park’s so-called “G-
reen Monster.”
“I have pretty good credentials as
a line-drive hitter to left center and
right center. I am going to do what I
have always done — see the ball and
hit it and not alter my swing. It
would be very foolish for me to
change my swing at this stage of my
career,” he said.
Astros manager Bill Virdon called
Watson as a “fine player,” but said
the club was forced to trade him.
“I think everybody more or less
anticipated this trade. He wasn’t
playing and we had to make a deal
under the circumstances. He is still
a capable player, but through a lack
of production, and production on
the part some of the other players
he lost his job,” Virdon said.
In exchange for Watson, Houston
obtained the rights to Peter Ladd, a
22-year-old relief pitcher who
posted a 3-1 record and a 0.63
earned run average in 18 appear
ances this season with the Bristol
Red Sox of the Eastern League.
Ladd, a resident of Portland,
Maine, was 4-1 and 8-2 in two pre
vious seasons with Winter Haven in
the Florida State League.
After the Red Sox obtained Wat
son from Houston, they turned
around and sent disgruntled first
baseman George “The Boomer”
Scott to the Kansas City Royals an
hour later.
Scott, 35, was traded for outfiel
der Tom Poquette and was in a Roy
als’ uniform for Wednesday night’s
game although he was not in the
Kansas City starting lineup.
Kansas City manager Whitey
Herzog said Scott was acquired to
help strengthen the Royals’ right-
handed power hitting and said Scott
will start at first base in Friday
night’s game in Milwaukee.
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