re why spanky boone psc edu jon boone writes on mon apr gmt in apr mnemosyne cs du edu greg spira gspira nyx cs du edu wrote does anybody in the pittsburgh area know why mike lavalliere was released last year i kept saying that slaught should get the bulk of the playing time that he was clearly the better player at this point but leyland insisted on keeping a pretty strict platoon and now he is released that doesn t make any sense to me greg the story goes like this spanky is too slow if he were quicker he would still be here but with slaught and tom prince they didn t want to lose prince in order to bring up that th pitcher slaught is about as good as spanky and prince is coming along nicely well my question still hasn t been answered if spanky was bad enough to release this year why did he get so much playing time last year yes i know he was part of a platoon and that s why he got more playing time than slaught but that doesn t answer the question if slaught was so obviously better this year wasn t this also obvious last year and shouldn t he have been taking away some of spanky s playing time against righties greg
