re jack morris bwalker bnr ca barry walker writes in article apr ramsey cs laurentian ca maynard ramsey cs laurentian ca roger maynard writes in apr newshub ariel yorku ca cs ariel yorku ca shawn luddington writes hey valentine i don t see boston with any world series rings on their fingers damn morris now has three and probably the hall of fame in his future therefore i would have to say toronto easily made the best signing and don t tell me boston will win this year they won t even be in the top in the division more like th in spite of what all the stat heads say jack morris played a large role in the jays winning the world series last year i don t care if his era was he played a leadership role and did win games his era may have been high but he did pitch many outstanding ball games and he pitched many not so outstanding ballgames too jack essentially pitched a lot of ball last year this certainly isn t irrelevant and iif you replace morris with replacement level quality the blue jays might not win re leadership i don t see it if the leadership effect is there for a starting pitcher you would expect to see its primary effect on the pitching staff you would expect to see the rest of the staff improve instead the rest of the staff declined you can make a reasonable argument for winfield providing leadership the offense picked up considerably from its effectiveness the previous year i m not saying i buy that but at least that argument makes internal sense greg barry walker bnr ottawa canada my opinions
