Heine Watch

Poor Heine has been a butt of many jokes since he was sent to Houston, so why not pick on him one last time this season (actually this should be second now that the Reds were eliminated again from the playoffs). Heine played 113 games in LF for Houston much of the season and actually performed better than many expected. He had 145 PO and only recorded 7 errors and 4 minus plays. The problem being that someone needs to tell him what the warning track is used for (grounds crew is getting tired of patching the wall) and how to hit a cut off man (though the SS is getting tired of running half way out into LF all the time even on a routine fly ball with no one on and that the SS does not look like the ball girl, though we are not sure about that one). Hitting wise he did what every one expected, 153 hits with 45 home runs (better than his fielding stats), 14 doubles (though most of them were ground rule) and 1 triple (the double carom shot into the corner), 117 RBI, 95 runs scored (we think this was done by questionable accounting, though it is only 50 more than the home run total), 52 walks (most intentional) and 55 strikeouts (induced by catcher asking about the woman he was with when the Swingers were in town). Was only on the DL once for 15 days with a sprained ankle (rumor has it that it was incurred when Barbara Wahwa (Channel 5 News) asked about his liaisons with Jaun Castro and Al Johnson).