I'll take this as a cry for help, since, scholar that you are, you don't even seem to know who Mike Scott is. He was brilliant for a few years, carrying the Astros to the postseason in the mid-1980s. Then MLB cracked down on his scuffing of the baseball,and his career fell apart. That's an excellent analogy of what will happen if Cisco is deprived of the ability to do pooling mergers.
Tom, I can only hope that in the future, people will look back and remember Cisco with a little more accuracy than you remember Mike Scott. First, he didn't carry the Astro's to the postseason. That team had Glenn Davis,Jose Cruz, Kevin Bass, and Nolan Ryan. Second, Mike Scott was their best pitcher (my apologies to Mr. Ryan), but he was never proven to have scuffed a baseball. He was effective because he was one of the first pitchers to master the split finger fastball, which is used by literally hundreds of pitchers today. Third, he won more than 14 games for the Astros in 5 straight seasons between 1985 and 1990, including a Cy Young award in 1986. He also is ahead of Nolan Ryan in Career Victories for the Astros. I wouldn't call anyone who won a Cy Young and has a no-hitter a 'blip'.
BTW, I don't recall why he didn't pitch much beyond 1990, but it wasn't because of MLB cracking down on scuffing. The same arguments were used against the A's in the 1988, 1989, and 1990 World Series, but none of their pitchers were ever proven to have scuffed anything but opposing hitter's batting averages.
Anyway, just wanted to set the record straight.
JC |
