[PilotMan]

April 1993

The more things change the more they stay the same. A fans life is never easy. We cheered hard for the boys in blue, we cheered hard for our new MVP first basemen and we were regarded with an 8-16 5th place record. Our bullpen got lit up in April like nobody's business. The starters were surprisingly efficient.

McGriff? Oh, McGriff....he had a slash line of .202/.288/.283. He came to bat 99 times, hit 1 HR, and had 13 RBI's. It's no secret that the Dodgers manager loves to run. He loves guys who can run, and he loves making guys run. McGriff has a career high of 6 stolen bases. He finished April with 3. Now, he has a lot of speed all around him in the lineup, so sometimes he has to run, but even still, that's a lot of running. Other than that, I would say, that this was a failure of a month for LA.

Team HR leaders are Henderson and Geronimo Pena (who you'll remember hit 3 in the first 2 games) with .... three. It's not been pretty.

We've already had injuries to deal with. The big one is Jose Cleto, who was started off really struggling with an 11.81 ERA in 4 games. He was basically ineffective. He tore his meniscus and at best he's back after the trade deadline. Edward Lindsey is lost for 6 weeks with more elbow problems. Don Robinson is also experiencing some elbow issues.

Chris Holt pitched well enough in 4 starts in April, but he was just shipped to Albuquerque and Pettitte was called up for his first work this year.

The only real bright spot happened after another injury. Rick Parker, who missed a lot of time last year, missed most of April straight away. In his place LA called up top SS prospect Denny Hocking from AA San Antonio. Hocking posted a monthly slash of .298/.397/.439, but his fielding has been weak. In one game, between Hocking and Pena, they committed 5 errors.

Bad month, but not the worst.