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Consultant10,000+ posts

Pitching, defense and the three-run homer.

It was a formula that manager Earl Weaver and his Baltimore Orioles honed to perfection during their ascent to become an American League powerhouse in the 1960s and 1970s.

Question: can a player teach himself how to hit a 3 run HR? I asked this question to Joe Rudi, Edgar Martinez

and Willie.

Bob

4/24/151:55 PM

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luv baseball5,000+ posts

Weaver wasn't such a huge genius in this but he did articulate it nicely. This is really not much more than the genesis of Money Ball. High OBP + Power = Runs. So stack the lineup with power guys that will take walks.

Getting good pitching and playing defense has been winning baseball for 150 years so nothing new there. Palmer, McNally, Cuellar and Dobson go a long way.

Go44dad10,000+ posts

Bob, Was that Mays, McCovey or McGee?

LOL!

RJMHSBaseballWeb member since 2007

While watching a Sox-Orioles game Showalter was arguing with an umpire. All I could think was, I miss Weaver. It would be a show not an argument.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f6cmqUTPn08 Weaver v. Haller

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=siUgPv71tes Weaver on how to argue with umpires

JCGStill working on a clever handle

I spent a lot of my youth in the upper deck at Memorial Stadium.

Earl was the man. Check my avatar.

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