Page 14/The Battalion/Friday, April 22, 1983
Rene Lachemann’s ‘operations’
have Seattle pitchers overjoyed
by Milton Richman
UPI Sports Editor
I like the way Rene Lachemann
operates.
He’s an original thinker, one
of those self-starters, and he
knows how to handle players.
He reminds me of Jim Val-
vano.
I don’t care that the Seattle
Mariners are down at the bot
tom in the American League
West; Lachemann is probably
the first one I’d think of if I were
an owner looking for a good,
smart young manager.
One of his virtues is that he’s v
up front with everyone. Particu
larly his players. He let’s them
know what he’s doing.
Four weeks ago, a few days
before the Mariners were about
to wind up spring training in
Tempe, Ariz., he went over to
one of his players and said the
Golden Words.
“You’ve made the team,”
Lachemann said. “You’re gonna
be one of our starting pitchers.
Go ahead and tell your mother,
your wife and your 4-month-old
baby.”
If the Mariners’ manager had
named Matt Young lord over all
he surveyed or tax-free winner
of a multimillion-dollar lottery,
Young couldn’t have been hap
pier. He was so elated, he
couldn’t even speak.
Young, 24, a left-hander
from Azusa, Calif., has taken
Floyd Bannister’s spot in the
Mariners’ pitching rotation, and
while nobody actually is looking
for him to be as effective or lead
the league in strikeouts the way
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Bannister did last year — before
becoming a free agent and sign
ing a five-year $4.5 million con
tract with the White Sox — he
certainly surprised a lot of peo
ple with his performance against
the Twins Thursday.
But, Lachemann wasn’t sur
prised at all.
Young gave up a first-inning
single to John Castino, then held
the Twins hitless until Darrell
Brown singled with one out in
the ninth. With the Mariners
leading, 2-0, Bill Caudill, their
right-handed relief ace, came in
to get the last two outs and save
Young’s second victory of the
season. He’ll never forget his
first one. That came in his big-
league debut against the Yank
ees in Seattle on April 6. He
didn’t finish, but he beat them
6-2, leaving in favor of Ed
Vande Berg in the eighth.
Young made a believer of
Lachemann by the way he pitch
ed this spring in the Cactus
League contests. Those games
don’t generally mean much, but
as good as Young’s figures were,
Lachemann was even more im
pressed by the way he threw and
his control. Young gave up only
one earned run in 25 1-3 in
nings, striking out 21 batters
while walking only five.
“It was the best spring I’ve
ever seen any pitcher have since
I’ve been managing,” says
Lachemann, who started man
aging 11 years ago and is in his
third season with Seattle.
“Young went to UCLA. He
was with Salt Lake City last sea
son and won 12 games for them,
but he was a question mark as far
as we were concerned when he
came to us this spring because of
his lack of experience.”
Beggars can’t be choosers.
The Mariners weren’t so deep in
starting pitchers Lachemann
really could pick and choose,
particularly after right-hander
Jim Beattie, ons of his regular
starters last year, came up with
tendonitis in his right arm and
was optioned to Salt Lake City
for rehabilitation.
“I think he’s got a chance to be
an outstanding pitcher,” Lache
mann says, employing a mana
ger’s vernacular. When you ask
him what he means by “out
standing,” he says a pitcher who
could win 15 to 20 games.
Lachemann isn’t necessarily
saying Young will do that this
year, but if he does he’ll surpass
Bannister, whose biggest year
with anyone was last year when
he fashioned a 12-13 log with
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neapolis Thursday, Young
walked two and struck out four
and said he thought he could’ve
pitched until the end. With the
bullpen the Mariners have,
though, he didn’t feel that bad
about being taken out.
Young has been having some
control problems. “That’s been
from thinking too much about
charts and pitches,” he revealed.
OK, then, Lachemann said,
he isn’t going to have any more
meetings with his young pitch
ers. He said he didn’t want them
thinking too much.
You see, I told you Lache
mann is real sharp.
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