Andy Sisco ripos it up in AAA

Claude wrote:
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>>Sisco, Andy ............... 0.1 9 8 8 0 0 6.59 - L (0-4)
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> Wasn't he the one for whom there was much weeping and wailing in this group
> when "we let him get away."?
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Andy Sisco is all of 24 years old and his development has been stunted
by improper use. He has already had success in the majors and the Cubs
sold him for 50K.

Jim Hendry had a player who anyone could figure out would be taken
in the Rule 5 draft and who would be kept by the drafting team. Yet
he failed to protect him in the Rule 5 draft by adding him to the 40 man
roster. He could have protected Sisco, traded him, or even sold him for
more than the 50K. Regardless of whether Sisco ends up in the HOF or
out of baseball by 25, it was a very dumb move.

Unfortunately for Sisco, he ended up in a bad organization. He entered
the majors when he should have been in AA ball. He had an excellent
rookie season, but really had no time to master his repertoire. In
his second year with the Royals, KC should have sent him down to become
a starter and work on his game. However, bad organizations eat their
seed corn and Sisco remained a ML reliever, this time without success.
I thought going to the White Sox would bring a new day, but they also
seemed to think he was a ML reliever. Only recently has he had the
chance to get to the minors and be a starter.

Incidentally, in the two starts prior to this one, Sisco
pitched a total of nine innings, giving up 2 runs on 6 hits.
This was just a really bad day. I still think he will succeed,
but the final outcome won't affect my appraisal of the move -
just how long it is remembered.

In defense of Hendry however, he has to make many many decisions
and there is simply no way they will all be good ones. The Cubs
are no worse off now than they would have been if they hadn't
drafted Sisco in the first place. A good GM is one who makes
more smart moves than dumb ones and who doesn't make too many
moves that really hurt. It isn't the players you lose that kill you
but the ones you can't get rid of - Jacque Jones, Scott Eyre, for
example.

ray heitmann
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