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Astros still need power hitter
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HOUSTON — The Houstrtn As
tros will have a new spring training
address and shorter fences in 1985,
but thetyMl still be plagued by an old
problem now that the full team
workouts have begun in Florida.
The Astros made no off-season
trades in their efforts to obtain right-
handed hitting power. They failed
to sign free agent Sixto Lezcano,
once again leaving Manager Bob Lil
lis to his creative devices in figuring
out a starting lineup.
Jose Cruz in left field and Bill Do
ran at second base at least know the
positions they will play and Craig
Reynolds is the likely shortstop be
cause of the uncertainty of Dickie
Thon’s comeback after being struck
in the eye by a pitched ball last year.
Terry Puhl is another certain
starter but he may be shifted from
right field to center field to allow Lil
lis to platoon Jerry Mumphrey in
right field, possibly with Kevin Bass.
After that, the lir
fuzzy.
Lillis may platoon Denny Walling
and Phil Garner at third and the first
base possibilities include veteran
lineup picture gets
Enos Cabell, Harry Spilman or Glen
Davis.
Then there is catching. Lillis flatly
says that the catching duties will be
decided in spring training. Mark
Bailey and veteran Alan Ashby are
the front-runners.
Bailey has power potential at the
f ilate and that’s a key qualification
or Lillis in his search for a steady
catcher.
Joe Niekro, Nolan Ryan and Bob
Knepper are solid as starting pitch
ers if they are healthy. Knepper is
recovering from knee surgery and
Ryan, 38, was slowed by several inju
ries last season.
The Astros will need to choose
fourth and Fifth starters from
among Mike Scott and Mike Mad
den, who had inconsistent perfor
mances in 1984, and Jeff Heathcock,
who is recovering from a serious
knee injury.
The bullpen could be Houston’s
strongest area with Dave Smith,
Frank DiPino, Bill Dawley and Joe
Sambito as prominent Figures.
The Astros have shortened the
Astrodome fences by 10 feet down
each foul line and six feet in cen-
terfield to help the power shortage.
Astros hitters like it and the pitchers,
whose margin for error is shortened,
don’t.
“It’s something they should have
done a long time ago,” Puhl said.
No one argues about the team’s
move from their dilapidated train
ing facility in Cocoa, Fla. to a new,
$5.5 million facility at Kissimmee,
Fla.
The Astros have started 0-9 and
1-6 over the last two seasons and
part of the blame is placed on the
lack of practice time caused by
flooded practice Fields.
The new facility at Kissimmee is a
drainage system that automatically
goes into operation when it rains.
I hat could help the Astros get off to
a faster start this season.
The Astros will host the New York
Yankees March 8 in the first game
played at the new Kissimmee train
ing site.
Associated Press
ARLINGTON — The Texas
Rangers, jokingly referred to by
some as “Next Century’s Cham
pions,” opened spring training in
Florida last week with cautious rea
lism replacing their usual irrational
optimism^
The Rangers have a new minority
owner (Gaylord Broadcasting), a
new general manager (Tom Grieve),
a new starting catcher (Don
Slaught), and some new pitchers to
help the team that Finished dead last
in the American League West in
1984.
Manager Doug Rader had pre
dicted a pennant last year, but the
Rangers finished 25 games (62-92)
below .500. Same old sad cellar song.
They were 14‘/2 games behind
champion Kansas City in the worst
division in professional hardball.
The franchise came to Arlington
in 1972 and the Rangers still haven’t
won a pennant with the end of the
century getting close.
The Rangers reached one of their
all-time lows in 1984.
They were the 10th worst fielding
t6am in the American League with
the shortstops contributing 44
league-leading boots.
Their catching was a laugh with
32 passed balls and 16 errors, dead
last in major league baseball.
If you tried to steal a base against
Ned Yost, Marv Foley and Donnie
Scott, you had an 81 percent chance
of making it.
Incredibly, only 19 percent of all
base thieves were gunned down.
The Rangers have traded for
Slaught of Kansas City, who had re
spectable hitting and Fielding marks
with the Royals. Slaught only threw
out about 25 percent of the runners,
but that would be a big improvement
for Texas catching which automat
ically turned walks into doubles.
The pitching plans include send
ing Dave Stewart to the bullpen
where the Rangers hope he will
sparkle like he did with tne Los An
geles Dodgers two years ago.
The Rangers are also gambling on
Burt Hooton ctnd Dave Rozema, two
journeymen newcomers, as potential
starters.
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A true story.
To pep up the hitting attack, the
Rangers acquired designated hitter
Cliff Johnson, who had the second
best slugging percentage in the
American League last year and hit
.304.
The Rangers should be able to
score some runs with the likes of
Buddy Bell, Larry Parrish, Pete
O’Brien, Gary Ward, and Johnson in
the lineup. Bell’s .315 average was
the third best in the AL and Ward
came on strong in the second half of
the season after a stumbling start.
But the Rangers have more ques
tion marks than periods and excla
mations.
Second base, shortstop, center
Field, catching and pitching are
shaky — the vital up-the-gut, neart-
and-soul of any baseball team.
You don’t hear any brash pennant
talk from the Rangers this year.
No catchy phrases like “catch a
winner at Arlington” or other mean
ingless mottos dreamed up by the
Ranger braintrust.
Rockhard reality has the Ranger
brass saying such things as:
Grieve: “Our goal is to be around
.500. That would be improving 25
games over last year.”
Rader: “I’m staying away from
predictions. I’ll just say we’ll be a lot
better than last year.”
If the Rangers just breath hard,
they should improve over 1984.
You’ll recall that on the last day of
the season Oakland’s Mike Whitt
pitched a perfect game against them.
Maybe we’ll see a Ranger pennant
this century.
But, personally. I’ve just about
given up on expecting one this de
cade.
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