John McGraw Announces Lineups and Rotation

Helena
February 18, 2012

"In playing or managing, the game of ball is only fun for me when I'm out in front and winning. I don't give a hill of beans for the rest of the game."  And so began John McGraw's opening remarks as the new manager for Joe T's Helena Handbasket.

McGraw was known to take risks with his NY Giant squad, and he appears headed down the same path with Helena.  Hank Aguirre and Cliff Melton are "sharing" ace duties, taking turns between then when the number one slot in the rotation comes up.  After the aces, McGraw is going with Juan Guzman, John Tudor, Joel Horlen, and Dolf Luque.

His lineup:


1: ChJones         3b
2: Fox             2b
3: Musial          rf
4: Heilmann        dh
5: McCovey         1b
6: Medwick         lf
7: Garciaparra     ss
8: VanSlyke        cf
9: Porter          c


Asked about having to face Honus Wagner again, McGraw responed, ""He is the nearest thing to a perfect player no matter where his manager chose to play him. The way to get a ball past him is to hit it eight feet over his head,"