re zane rescue us from simmons in article sfovx o wb mium d andrew cmu edu mamatha devineni ratnam mr andrew cmu edu writes so far simmons looks like a total idiot leyland should accept a part of the blame for the lavalliere situation i can t understand his and management s fear of losing tom prince through waivers even if they do what s the use he is aright hander like slaught not a very smart platoon also i am blaming leyland in this case since he is hcurrently convinced that lavalliere is through while giving him way too much time last year in the regular season and the playoffs slaught should have played in all games he has a good average against right handed pitching didn t leyland and simmons forsee this last year and attempt to trade lavalliere last year itself any fool could tell them lavalliere wasn t very fit last year sorry but this is the biggest load of bunk i ve seen in a while a the pirates have been trying to trade lavalliere for some time now nobody was even vaguely interested b several other teams had made it known that they would grab prince who was out of options c lavalliere s release had nothing to do with him being through he was released because in the event of an injury to slaught lavalliere is no longer capable they believe of being the everyday catcher since slaught is as good against righties as he is against lefties the offense should actually improve with this move toby
