re spanky released in article apr sei cmu edu wp sei cmu edu william pollak writes deletions spanky isn t very good defensively anymore he s an offensive liability and judging from his outburst this winter after the bucs failed to sign drabek he s a jerk with his head in the sand tommy prince on the other hand can t hit in the paper simmons was citing the case of tom pagnozzi who never hit in the minors or majors but suddenly somehow learned how geez dal must have slipped something into ted s drink sometime comparing prince to pagnozzi offensively is laughable prince has never hit well in the minors and he s now years old i think pagnozzi was not a bad hitter in the minors i ll bring in the numbers tomorrow assuming i don t have another brain cramp and forget he had a very good year at louisville before coming up to the majors as i recall the hype on pagnozzi coming up in the organization was good hit decent fielding when he got to the majors and didn t hit as well as expected not as much playing time he became exhibit in nichols law of catcher defense and got the reputation as an outstanding defensive catcher it s not clear he ever learned to hit his four years with more than ab born july year ab ba slg oba no power less than league average walks peak year when he turned now declining if ted is going to invoke pagnozzi as a model for prince given that prince has underperformed pagnozzi in the minors it s not a rosy picture btw i m still unhappy with moving zeile who had the same reputation coming up in the cardinal organization as pagnozzi except that he was a much much better hitter to rd where he could be an average hitter and a below average fielder instead of a well above average hitter as an average or below average fielding catcher harold harold brooks hbrooks uiatma atmos uiuc edu national severe storms laboratory norman ok i used to work for a brewery too but i didn t drink on the job p bavasi on dal maxvill s view that florida can win the nl east in
