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April 5 1971
The sudden collapse of Cesar Tovar's ability to play 2B is an OOTP thing and there's no plausible real life explanation for it that can be put in one of my newspaper articles. Likewise with Curt Flood's hitting decline to rookie league not ever going to make it to the bigs level while retaining his Gold Glove defensive skills.
Tovar is on the IL. He's a good hitter and a great defensive OFer. When he's off I'm going to send him for a minor league rehab and shop a trade. Flood, I don't know. I have him set as a defensive replacement only. He's better on defense than the guys I could bring up from AAA. Anyway I'm not going to write a news story about these events.
The owner says play better than .500 ball. BNN predicts a first place finish by nine games over the Mets.
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