White Sox general manager Kenny Williams has a Stanford education. Is that why he’s smarter than everyone else in baseball?
Here’s why I make that comment. He knows he has a problem at third base. His youngster, Brent Morel, isn’t quite ready. He struggles and is now injured. Veteran Orlando Hudson, a Gold Glove second baseman in his day, starts playing third but isn’t hitting so hot.
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"The only knuckleballers to ever get Cy Young Award votes are Phil Niekro, who finished second in 1969, third in 1974, sixth in 1978 and 1979, and fifth in 1982, and Tim Wakefield, who finished third in 1995." WIlbur Wood in 1972 and Joe Niekro in 1979 say hello.
Are Nick Carfardo and Rob Bradford twins, separated at birth and unbeknownst to anyone but the Red Sox , closely related to John Henry. Just askin, yaknow?
I think people shied away from Youk because they didn't want to deal with the 'every at-bat is a life and death, helmet-slamming, struggle' that we grew to love, but tire of. But the Manny shoving incident several years ago was telling. Youk is an acquired taste and many teams weren't willing to bite.
Wilbur Wood also says hello from 1971 and 1973. And Hoyt Wilhelm would probably have received votes in at least some of the four years he received MVP votes had there been a Cy Young award at all (1952, 1954) or had there been an award for each league instead of one for all of baseball (1962, 1964). The main reasons there haven't been many knuckleballers receiving Cy Young votes? There haven't been many in the era of Cy Young awards! (That's why Gene Bearden didn't get any votes.)