Friday, April 15, 1988/The Battalion/Page 9
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Yankees want to reel in Astros’ Bass
P or Winfield in fishy blockbuster deal
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I Bass is the Houston Astros’ versa-
tih right fielder. Bass is a switch hit
ter who combines a rare blend of
Breed and power.
■ Last season he was one of an elite
bn mp of players who hit 20 home
■tins and stole 20 bases.
I The former All-Star is a major cog
? along with Billy Hatcher and Gerald
Young, in what many are calling the
Best young outfield in the major
leagues.
■ Despite being relegated to a
■inch-hitting role in all but two of
Houston’s seven games because of a
slow-healing hamstring, Bass has
performed marvelously this season.
He is toting a .455 batting average
with eight runs batted in.
Bass hit the second grand slam of
his career Sunday in the ninth in
ning against the Cincinnati Reds to
cap a big 12-3 Astros win.
So why would the Astros consid
ering trading Bass? Well, there are
three possible reasons.
The first possibility is that the As
tros believe the bait Steinbrenner is
casting out, Dave Winfield, is too
good to pass up.
The second possibility involves
members of the Astros’ front office
ingesting large amounts of illegal
hallucinogens.
The third possibility combines the
first along with the fact that general
manager A1 Wood believes that the
Astros MUST win it ALL this year.
Let’s examine each one:
First, it’s true that Dave Winfield
is an extraordinary talent. When he
left college the 6-foot-8 rightfielder
was drafted in professional basket
ball, football and baseball. Winfield
was one of the best players in the
game.
But notice the tense of that last
statement. I said WAS.
If the Yankees had offered Win
field for anyone on the Astros a few
years ago, I would have met him at
the airport and carried his luggage
to the Dome.
But Winfield is now 36 years old
and in the twilight of his career. He
may have one or two more great
years left.
Of course, he may have only three
or four years — good or bad — left
at all.
Bass on the other hand is just en
tering the prime of his career. If he
remains injury-free, he will be one of
the best players in the game.
Notice the tense of the last
statement. I said WILL BE.
Bass is 29 years old and is coming
into his own. After working his way
into the starting lineup, he has had
three productive seasons.
He should have seven or eight
great years left and may play as
many as nine or ten mot e seasons.
As young as Hatcher and Young
are, the Astros’ outfield should stay
intact for many years to come.
Second, it’s fairly certain that
owner John McMullen, manager
Hal Lanier and Wood are not using
drugs. Those guys have never been
known as partyers.
Third, Wood may believe that the
Astros pitching staff is too old to last
much longer. Wagner may be ready
to risk it all this season and hope that
Winfield would have a better year
than Bass.
Rebuilding a pitching staff is a
general manager’s toughest chal
lenge and greatest fear.
Pitching in the major leagues is al
ready at an all-time low. The only
way to obtain quality pitching is to
develop them in the farm system or
trade for them. And since good
pitching is so scarce, a team often
has to trade its biggest offensive star.
The Astros staff includes veterans
Nolan Ryan, Mike Scott, Bob Knep-
per, Larry Andersen, Danny Dar
win, Joaquin Andujar and Dave
Smith — not what one would call a
group of spring chickens.
This may be the end of the line
for most of those old timers.
But the rest of the team is fairly
young with Glenn Davis at first, Billy
Doran at second, Rafael Ramirez at
shortstop, Chuck Jackson at third
and Mark Bailey at catcher.
Houston also has third baseman
Ken Caminiti and outfielder Cam
eron Drew gaining experience in the
minors.
So splitting up the strongest point
of the team on a nervous whim
seems to be a little hasty.
If the Astros want to trade for
someone, why not try to get a young,
starting pitcher rather, a supposed
weak spot, rather than another right
fielder, a reliable strong spot?
Bass is a key member of the team.
He has announced that he wants to
stay in Houston.
In order for the Astros to be suc
cessful, it is imperative that he has
his head on straight. Continuing
trade rumors will not be healthy for
Bass or the Astros. So Wood should
be grateful he’s got a Bass on his
team and not look a gift fish in the
mouth.
12th Man Scoreboard
Swift Ags to race Horns in Austin
The Texas A&M Roadrunners
hope to make the University of
Texas eat dust this weekend
when they travel to Austin for
their third annual road-burning
showdown with Longhorns.
The Aggies have never won
the event but they have more se
rious runners competing this
Roadrunners
year, club president Larry Isham
said.
“This year we have the best
chance to win,” Isham said.
This is the only competition for
the 25-year-old club and about
eight to 20 runners will partici
pate.
Ags to test Bryan waters Saturday
The sailing team continues its
windy season Saturday when it
sets its sails in Bryan Utilities
Lake for the “Barnyard Bazarre”
Regatta.
A&M finished third in the
March team racing district cham
pionships and ended up fifth at
the Clemson Intersectional. The
women breezed their way to two
second-place finishes last month,
including the A&M Invitational
Sailing
on April 2. The Lady Ags sank to
fourth place last weekend at the
women’s district championships
in Austin. The Lady Longhorns
won the event.
David Hiebert, with the wind
at his back, continues a successful
season in the Laser single-handed
competition taking top honors at
the A&M invitational.
Horns win tourney at A&M’s home pool
The Aggies’ archrival, the Uni
versity of Texas, was the only
team with its head above water at
the end of the A&M Spring Invi
tational last weekend. A&M
splashed to a second-place finish
behind the Longhorns.
Water Polo
A&M’s B team placed fourth in
the event behind an independent
club’s third-place finish.
The tournament was A&M’s
last of the season.
Davis’ home run helps Astros crush Reds 9-3
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Baylor bears brunt of A&M
netters in SWC showdown
(HOUSTON (AP) — Glenn Davis
drove in five runs with a three-run
homer and a pair of singles, leading
j the Houston Astros to a 9-3 victory
over the Cincinnati Reds Thursday
flight.
■Danny Darwin, 1-0, allowed three
tuns in 8 1-3 innings.
■ He lost his shutout in the eighth
inning on Barry Larkin’s RBI single,
then allowed two runs in the ninth
on a balk and Nick Esasky’s run-
scoring single.
|Until Cincinnati scored, Astros
pitchers had gone 24 innings with
out allowing a run.
Darwin is taking the place of Joa
quin Andujar in the rotation.
Andujar was placed on the 21-day
disabled list because of strained mus
cles in his left side.
Davis’ fifth home run of the sea
son scored Gerald Young and Billy
Hatcher in the first inning.
Young and Hatcher reached bast-
on infield hits off Dennis Rasmus
sen, 0-1. .
Davis, who also drove in runs with
singles in the fourth and seventh in
nings, equaled his career high with
five runs batted in, matching his RBI
total in a three-home run perfor
mance at San Diego last Sept. 10.
Bill Doran’s two-run double high
lighted Houston’s four-run fourth
inning, chasing Rasmussen.
Rafael Ramirez singled to start the
Astros’ fourth, took second on Ras
mussen’s balk and scored on a dou
ble by Darwin.
After Hatcher walked, Doran’s
double scored Darwin and Hatcher,
and Davis’ single off reliever Frank
Williams scored Darwin.
Alan Ashby reached base on a
forceout and scored on Chuck Jack-
son’s double in the seventh.
Houston and the Reds will play
again Friday at 7:30 and at 12:35
Saturday.
The Texas A&M men’s tennis
team rebounded from a pair of
tough losses by edging Baylor 5-4
Thursday in Waco.
The Aggies, who improved 3-3 in
Southwest Confexence play, will play
Texas Tech Saturday in their final
home match of the season 1:30 at
the Omar Smith Tennis Center.
In singles play, Baylor’s Bob Hen
derson defeated Dean Johnson in
the No. 1 bracket 6-4, 6-4; Craig Mc-
Smythe beat Shaun O’Donovan 3-6,
6-2, 6-S>, and Steve Kennedy of A&M
defeated Reich Chandler in No. 3
singles play.
In other matches, the Aggies’
Craig Whitteker got past Baylor’s
Monte Horne 6-4, 6-4; Jeff Engelke
beat A&M’s Mike Chambers 6-3, 4-6,
7-6, and A&M’s Wayne Green beat
Chris Wade 7-5, 6-3.
In doubles play, A&M’s top team
of Kennedy and O’Donovan de
feated Flenderson and McSmythe 6-
4, 7-6, and Chandler and Horne de
feated Whitteker and Johnson 7-6,
3-6, 6-3.
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