re pleasant yankee surprises in article mssc k gi g netcom com mss netcom com mark singer writes i don t have a history handy but i don t recall that the preponderance of roy s come from winning teams in fact i think team performance is generally irrelevant as almost always the most deserving candidate wins am i wrong not really though i wouldn t personally say the most deserving candidate wins rarely does a player win roy when called up in mid season and there have been several duds in recent years but this is more a factor of mediot biases than anything else i wonder if amaral hits like he is capable of will he receive roty votes he s only he could have a long career ahead of him and he is not necessarily on a losing team while the angels staff is still very weak their everyday lineup is doing quite well thank you snow is playing great salmon is learning to make the adjustments easley appears fine but even if he s not flora is ready to come up between gonzales and gruber they ll manage the hot corner polonia and curtis are steady and heady even myers and orton are contributing personally i think they can finish over which makes them a winning team i think they are a second division team they should finish ahead of the royals mariners and possibly athletics but i don t think they ll be above i think the east is stronger this year last year their pitching was bad and their offense was horrible this year their offense is better but their pitching is still pretty bad even if finley returns to form he won t replace what they lost in abbott sanderson farrell i don t believe it and while their ba may be good and they have decent speed their offense lacks punch they don t have any bona fide power hitters salmon snow davis and curtis none with more than hr potential cheers valentine p s which al team had the most steals last week those go go tigers the mediots finally managed to convince them that they needed more balance in their lineup you see they were scoring too many runs too consistently gotta run more to break that up
