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Tom Kelly's style is merely instinct, but the Twins' success is obvious
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MINNEAPOLIS — Tom Kelly manages the Minnesota Twins the only way he knows how — by instinct.
And that's one of the reasons the Twins are in the World Series. Here's a peek at how Kelly operates:
The Twins, with 6-pack winner Scott Erickson pitching, trailed Toronto 2-1 in Game 3 of the AL playoffs. With a runner on first and no one out in the fifth inning, he had 1-2 count on Joe Carter.
When Kelly walked to the mound, Erickson expected words of wisdom. He was shocked when the manager demanded the ball. It was equally shocking when David West came out of the bulpen.
Kelly had summoned one of his
least-favorite players — career ERA
of 5.29, and had violated a basic baseball tenet. The right-handed-hitting Carter was batting .335 against lefties and .364 against centerfielders in right-handed pitches like Erickson.
But West struck out Carter. Then he struck out two of the Blue Jays' other toptright-handed hitters, Kelly Gruber and Candy Maldonado, to retire the
side. West and three other relievers held Toronto scoreless the rest of the way and Minnesota rallied for a 3-2 victory in what turned out to be the pivotal game the series, which the Twins won 4-1.
His relationship with the media is strained at best. Last season, he challenged a writer to a fight. He battled the press during the 1987 postseason but seems more at ease this time. After working with a media coach, he is more tolerant of what he considers "stupid questions."
At the same time, management cringes when he insults questioners on his weekly call-in radio show.
Like him or not, Tom Kelly wins. he's taking the Twins to the World Series for the second time in his five-year career. Both times, Minnesota was picked to finish last.
"He's not much different than Billy Martin and Lou Piniella, and I liked playing for them, too," said Mike Pagliarulo, the former Yankee who came to the Twins before this season.
"He helps you learn to be a better player. If you make a mistake on the field, it's corrected right away in the
dugout. It's not in the newspapers the next day. Nothing slides with him, and it shouldn't." Pagliarlo said.
One of Kelly's great managerial coops came in the off season. He convinced owner Carl Pohlad that Jack Morris, who looked up a year ago, could help the team. Pohlad gave a big-money contract to Morris, who won 18 games and stabilized the staff.
"I if have to give credit to one person for our success, it would be Tom Kelly," Morris said. "Being a player too long ago, I don't know what it's like to sit on the bench. He makes everybody feel like part of the team."
Of his philosophy, Kelly said:
"I've always done the best I could."
The coaches have done the same and so have the players. We've always gone out there and played hard. We run out everything. There was no dogging it, no half-speed. I won't tolerate anything less than that. Whether that means anything, I don't know."
It means something to his boss, general manager Andy MacPhail, who had to talk Pohlad into hiring Kelly, then 36, after the 1986 season.
"Hegets the most out of his players," said MacPhail, who stood by Kelly even through last season's 74-88 record.
Nevertheless, some players may wish they were never introduced to Kelly.
He didn't like Steve Lombardozzi, a 412 hitter in the 1987 World Series. He wasn't fond of either Tom Brunansky, one of the most popular Twins during the 1980s, or Tim Laudner. Those players are no longer with the Twins.
Despite Pagliarulo's statement that Kelly never airs his dirty laundry, he has publicly criticized West and fellow left handed pitcher Allan Anderson. He said he took Erickson out of the playoff game because the pitcher was nervous, though a somewhat bitter Erickson said he wasn't.
"Along with Sparky Anderson and Tony La Rusa, Tom Kelly is one of the most proven managers in the league," MacPhail said. "He has done a tremendous job with them. He's always know where he's coming from. He's in charge. I don't know what else anyone would want in a manager."
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LVAS VEGAS — Jerry Tarkianan may get a going-away present from the NCAA about the time his UNLV coaching career ends in March.
A final resolution of the NCAA's 4-year probe into the UNLV basketball program appears to be on a collision course with the end of Tarkanian's reign with the Runnin' Rebels.
After a series of procedural delays, UNL legal counsel Brad Boake said yesterday that he thought the university's case probably would be heard at a Juni. 31 hearing. The refractions Committee in San Diego.
A decision about possible sanctions against UNLV would be expected about 30 days later — about the time of the Rebels' March 3 game against Utah State that will be Tarkanian's last at UNLV.
"It looks like it could be at the end of the season." Booke said.
UNLV had expected the case would be heard at the Nov. 15-17 meeting of the Infractions Committee in Overland Park.
But difficulties involving the
NCAA's enforcement procedures and a new Nevada due process law have stalled the case. Boake said university and NCAA attorneys were working on a compromise to allow the case to move forward.
"The problem is trying to find a procedure that will satisfy the due process statute and not do violence or NCAA no enforcement." Booke said.
The NCAA hit UNLV with a 29- count letter of inquiry in December, alleging a variety of violations in the men's basketball program.
Some of the alleged violations stem from the 1986 recruitment of former New York prep star Lloyd Daniels, who never played for UNLV following his arrest at a crack house.
UNLV already is banned from postseason play this year and from live television as the final resolution of a 14-year-old battle that began when the NCAA tried to suspend Tarkarian from coaching.
Tarkanian announced this summer he would step down as coach at the end of the upcoming season.
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