Jays start season
with fresh faces
Cardinals sign Darryl Kile
■ The right-hander, who
had an off season with the
Colorado Rockies, has the
potential to start for the St.
Louis team.
ST. LOUIS (AP) - The St. Louis
Cardinals acquired another former
dominant right-hander today, getting
Darryl Kile in a seven-player deal
with the Colorado Rockies.
Kile joins 1996 AL Cy Young
winner Pat Hentgen, an 11-game
winner last year who was acquired
last week from Toronto, to revamp a
staff that has been the Cardinals’
major weakness the past two seasons.
Kile was 19-7 with a 2.57 ERA
with Houston in 1997 but was a
major bust in Colorado after signing
with the Rockies. He was 8-13 with a
6.61 ERA last year.
Along with a potential No. 1
starter, the Cardinals got a new closer
in the deal. The Rockies also sent
Dave Veres, who had 31 saves last
year, to St. Louis along with pitching
prospect Luther Hackman.
The Cardinals gave up right-han
ders Jose Jimenez, Manny Aybar and
Rick Croushore, plus minor-league
infield prospect Brent Butler.
Jimenez, 26, had a no-hitter and two
hitter against Arizona’s Randy
Johnson this year but later spent time
in the minors and was 5-14 with a
5.89 ERA.
The sides reached a tentative deal
early Monday, contingent on the
Cardinals’ restructuring the final
year of Kile’s contract. Kile is sched
uled to make $8 million next season.
The Cardinals were negotiating
to reduce the salary to $6 million and
add an option for 2001 with a $2 mil
lion buyout, and the final hangup was
negotiating incentive clauses for the
option year.
Kile, who turns 31 next month,
struggled with his curveball at alti
tude and those problems ended up
affecting his other pitches. Last year
he had a 7.77 ERA at Coors Field, the
highest home-field ERA among
major league pitchers. He’s 21-30
with a 5.84 ERA in two seasons with
the Rockies.
Veres, 33, went 4-8 with 31 saves
and a 5.14 ERA in 73 appearances in
1999 after going 3-1 with a 2.83 ERA
and eight saves in 63 appearances as
a setup man in his Rockies debut in
1998.
Aybar, 25, was used mostly in
relief and was 4-5 with three saves
and a 5.47 ERA in 97 innings.
Croushore was 3-7 with a 4.14 ERA,
eight saves and 88 strikeouts in 71 2
3 innings.
Butler, 21, was a Cardinals’ third
round draft pick in 1996 and hit .269
with 13 homers and 54 RBIs last year
at Double-A Arkansas. He played
mostly at shortstop but also has expe
rience at second base.
Hackman, a rookie right-handed
reliever, was 1-2 with a 10.69 ERA in
five games last year.
OMAHA (AP) - Creighton basket
ball coach Dana Altman is keeping it
simple as he mixes his new players with
what’s left of last year’s NCAA
Tournament team.
Rehound well and play solid
defense, Altman says, and good things
will happen.
The Bluejays outrebounded oppo
nents in 22 of 31 games, winning 19
while going 22-9 last year. Creighton
also held the opposition under 70 points
last year 15 times, winning all but one.
“I’m not real smart, but those stats
are pretty overwhelming. If we rebound
well and we guard people, then we have
an opportunity to win,” Altman said.
“I’ve told our players a number of times
now we’ve scored 80 points and gotten
beat. But very rarely when we outre
bound an opponent or do a good job on
file defensive end do we get beat”
The Bluejays will have six new
players when they open the season Nov.
22 at Mississippi Valley State. Altman
said he is counting on his veterans from
last year’s squad, which won the
Missouri Valley Conference
Tournament and reached the second
round of the NCAA Tournament.
“I think all players realize the sig
nificance of the NCAA tournament,”
Altman said. “Our new guys, they want
to be there.... Our older guys have a lit
tle better understanding now of the
work ethic that’s required if you’re
going to make a run like that. Hopefiilly
it will be motivational for returning
players - to keep those guys going and
teach those new guys what it takes to
have a chance.”
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Altman has a lot of work ahead of
him, namely in replacing forward
Rodney Buford. Creighton’s all-time
leading scorer and an AP honorable
mention All-American last year as a
senior averaged 18.6 points and 7.5
rebounds per game.
“You try to replace him by giving
the ball to a lot more guys,” junior for
ward Ben Walker said. “This year it
won’t be like one guy getting 40
points.”
The 6-foot-2 Walker, who averaged
18 points in the Jays’ five postseason
games last year, will have an expanded
role, Altman said.
“I don’t think that Ben has to take
the whole load. I think that Ben has a
significant part of it, but I don’t want
Ben to feel like he’s got that whole
- load,” Altman said. “If Ben just does or
will do what he did those last seven or
eight ball games for us last year, we’ll
just take that right now, and that will be
fine.”
Altman’s other veterans are for
wards Donnie Johnson (6-7) and
Nerijus Karlikanovas (6-8) and sopho
more guard Ryan Sears, who averaged
8.7 points last season.
Creighton also has six new players,
five of them freshman.
How many of the freshmen see time
depends on Creighton’s needs and how
well the players are adjusting, Altman
said.
“Of those six, two or three of them
are going to have to play a significant
role for us if we’re going to continue to
press and play nine or 10 guys like
we’ve been doing,” Altman said.
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