re jack morris in article apr ramsey cs laurentian ca maynard ramsey cs laurentian ca roger maynard writes in c sfve aq murdoch acc virginia edu drw l delmarva evsc virginia edu david robert walker writes some comments deleted for bandwidth god knows we need it baseball is a team game but it is made of individual talents it is absurd to judge the success or failure of an individual by the success or failure of his teammates whom he did not choose at least in most cases morris won last year because he played on a team with joe carter robby alomar tom henke juan guzman john olerud et al clemens lost because he was surrounded by such lesser performers as herm winninham luis rivera and jeff reardon to define the quality of the team as a sum of its components as i do albeit imperfectly is a lesser error than defining the quality of an individual as the mean quality of the team as my reading of your arguments suggests you do no i am not trying to define the quality of an individual at least not for the purpose of ranking them toronto won with olerud they might have won with fielder they might not have won with thomas detroit might have won with thomas chicago might have won with fielder you can t rank these individuals you can only look at who might contribute more to the team effort which is winning the ws thomas could not have contributed to that goal any more than olerud so i cannot say that olerud is less of a player ok roger here s a question for you say you are running an expansion team you don t have a team at the moment but the draft is coming up who are you going to pick guys who have won the most ws rings or guys who could contribute the most to your team say the reds were dumb enough to not protect larkin and the jays didn t protect alfredo who would you pick i can t believe i m getting involved in this john cordially as always maynard ramsey cs laurentian ca so many morons rm and so little time
