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The Battalion
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STEVE
O’BRIEN
Sportswriter
S/ The Battafa
Saturday
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Ruben Sierra has been called out
at home. But he's not headed
ck to the dugout.
With no long-term contract. Sierra
is walking right out of Arlington Sta-
um, and Rangers' fans can only sit
d watch.
An arbitration hearing today will
lecide Sierra's salary for this season,
but after that he's a free-agent, open
to the highest bidder.
I And it won't be the Rangers.
I The Rangers have already offered
Ruben a five-year contract worth
ound $25 million, with three years
aranteed. Ruben and his agent,
uck Berry, rejected the offer, de-
anding close to $28 million over five
years.
t -* And Sierra wants all five years
uaranteed.
The word around Arlington Stadi-
m is that Rangers ownership doubts
Ruben's long-term commitment to
Texas.
"I think this is a signal that the
angers don't think Ruben will be
orth it down the road," Dallas
orning News baseball writer Gerry
raley said on Monday. "They're
sending a signal that they don't have
aith in him."
But don't blame Rangers owner
ship or Sierra or his agent. It's more a
matter of economics than of egos.
Not very many teams do trust
ierra over five years. And they can't.
See O'Brien/Page 4
Aggies continue season tune-up
Mary Hardin-Baylor provides next test for rusty A&M team
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Texas A&M pitcher Kelly Wunsch is scheduled to start today in the first game of
the Aggies' doubleheader against Mary Hardin Baylor at Olsen Field at 1 p.m.
The Texas A&M baseball team will
continue to get all the bugs worked out
today at Olsen Field.
A&M will host Mary Hardin-Baylor
in a 1 p.m. doubleheader.
The Aggies, ranked No. 25 by Baseball
America in Monday's poll, are now 4-4 on
the season after losing two out of three
this weekend to the University of Ari
zona. The Crusaders come into the dou
bleheader with a 3-0 record.
Today's game will open a four-game
homestand which will include a weekend
Southwest Conference series with the
University of Houston.
A&M head coach Mark Johnson said
the Aggies were going to try to work in as
many pitchers as they could against
Mary Hardin Baylor to prepare for the
weekend series with Houston.
"We're going to throw quite a few
pitchers," he said. " We're going to start
with Kelly Wunsch and Jay Hogue will
start the second game. We have some
guys that have to get some work, and we
are going to try to extend a few of them to
see what they can do."
Wunsch, a sophomore, has no deci
sions this season and a 4.91 ERA. Hogue,
also a sophomore, has not started this sea
son.
Shortstop Jason Marshall leads the
team in batting with a .414 average. Des
ignated hitter Trey Moore owns a .400
batting average.
Johnson said despite losing the series
to 14th-ranked Arizona, he had seen
some improvement in his club, which was
something he was looking for going to
Tucson.
"We could have lost all three games to
Arizona and it wouldn't have bothered
me," Johnson said. "All I wanted to do
was to get better, and we got better.
"We are a lot better club than we were
ten days ago."
The Aggies lost the first game to Ari
zona 12-4, but came back to win the sec
ond game 11-8 on Saturday behind a six-
run third inning. The rally was capped off
by a two-run triple by freshman catcher
Rob Trimble.
The Wildcats took the final game of
the series from the Aggies by a score of 6-
5 in ten innings.
With the game tied at four, Conrad
Colby bashed a two run homer to give the
Aggies a 5-4 lead in the top of the ninth
inning.
Robbie Moen came back with an RBI
single in the bottom of the ninth to tie the
game, and John Tejcek homered on the
first pitch in the bottom of the tenth in
ning to secure the Wildcats' victory.
The Aggies have had less non-SWC
opponents to tune up for the conference
season because of the new conference for
mat. Johnson said it is important to use
games against teams like Mary Hardin-
Baylor to help the team prepare for the
rest of the season.
"I would much prefer playing 18 or 20
games before we start the conference
schedule, so everyone would be more
comfortable and ready to play when con
ference started," he said.
One advantage to the new conference
format, Johnson said, is that getting to
play everyone six times will better deter
mine the champion.
"We didn't start where we wanted to
at Rice, but the saving grace is we have 33
games to catch up, so you don't dig your
self near as big a hole," Johnson said. "I
think the more games we play, the better
chance you have of the best team winding
up on top."
The Aggies and the Crusaders have
only met once previously. Last season,
A&M won, 6-0, in Olsen Field
Tuesday will also be Schedule Poster
Day at Olsen Field. The first 1,000 fans
will receive a poster featuring the Aggies'
1992 schedule.
After the Houston series, the Aggies
will travel to Huntsville next Tuesday to
take on Sam Houston State University.
A&M and will take off to Minneapolis
on Feb. 28 to compete in the Oscar Mayer
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