Hello Ed!
Saturday October 19 1996 08:18, Ed Grinnell wrote to Hannes Ziery:
 EG> You can't win if you allow 1 run and your team scores 0. This year, the
 EG> Sox averaged 4.41 runs per 9 innings for Clemens. For this year, that's
 EG> not very good to start off and half a run a game less than the second
 EG> worst on his team. The best support that I've seen him have was last 
year,
 EG> when he got 5.85 runs per game, which was considerably higher than his
 EG> 5-year average of 4.38 (His support the year before that was 4.06).
There is no doubt, that he had the worst run support of all starting pitchers 
this year and with the run support of Tom Gordon 7.14 he would have been one 
of the best in the American League but he had an ERA of 3.63 and this is 
nearly a run less if his run support. His negative 10-13 record was not 
mainly the fault of his batting teammates. Especialy in the first part of the 
season most of his possible wins were blown by the Bullpen.
The Red Sox are still one of the best offensive teams in the MLB.
ERA 283 to 279
R   928 to 921
H  1631 to 1606
2B  308 to 292
3B   31 to 30
HR  209 to 185
RBI 882 to 869
SLG 457 to 436
There are not much teams which can give a pitcher a better suppoert.
 EG> They didn't add an Aguilera. Slocumb's best work came after they had
Yes but Aguilera didn`t want to stay in Boston any longer and the closer 
market was not so big. I think they acquired one of the best available.
 EG> year before they acquired Aguilera). It remains to be seen if Slocumb
 EG> can
 EG> put together a WHOLE year instead of being great in parts. He slumped in
 EG> the second half of last year and didn't pick up the pace this year until
 EG> the middle of August.
Slocumb went 5-5 with 31 saves. He had an ERA of 3.02 with 88 SO in 83.1 IP 
and limited opposing batters to an ERA of 222
Aguilera was 2-2 with 20 saves. He had an ERA of 2.67 with 23 SO in 30.5 IP.
Better of course but he had not to go in so much Save situations cause the 
Bullpen worked much better in 95.
Servus
Hannes
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