Word: infielding
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...Martin, another of the team's promising sophomores, will begin the game at first base. A player with tremendous potential, Martin hit 400 on the Southern trip. Mouse Kasarjian at shortstop and George Harrington at second will round out the infield...
...pure excitement, no one will match the Giants. They are a fast, powerful team with a renovated pitching staff and the best young players around. Their only major deficiency, and it may turn out to be a disastrous one, is the left side of their infield which has yet to prove itself to be of pennant winning caliber...
Orlando Cepeda could have a sophomore slump, but the chances are he will turn into the loop's top first baseman. Daryl Spencer and Jim Davenport are both superlative fielders, but both hit .256 last year. The success of the infield will depend on the performance of Andre Rodgers at shortstop, a reformed cricket player who tore the PCL apart last year with a .354 average...
...Schoendienst's TB spells doom for Milwaukee. Manager Fred Haney has no one to fill his place, especially now that Mel Roach has reinjured his knee. The middle of the infield now consists of rookie Chuck Cottier and either John Logan or Felix Mantilla (the only player in the majors to bat lower than Willy Miranda...
...fate lies with Don Newcombe who should have forgotten about the '56 world series by now. If Newk can come back and head an otherwise average pitching staff of Brooks Lawrence, Joe Nuxhall, Bob Purkey, and rookie Jim O'Toole, the Reds could be very hard to beat. Their infield of Frank Robinson on first (where his fielding is still a question), Johnny Temple (.306) at second, Roy McMillan at short, and the slugger Frank Thomas at third is almost equal to Pittsburgh's. GusBell, Jerry Lynch, and Vada Pinson (the best looking rookie in the league) rank high...