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1. Hello Rusty Kuntz, Goodbye Rusty Cars Posted: July 21, 2006 at 08:41 PM (#2106799)Also, does the opposing manager get to see the other teams active/inactive lists?
It's replayed from the point at which the decision was made that led to the protest - so yes, they replay from the point at which Curtis entered the game.
The manager gets a copy of the lineup card, which lists the active players for that night's game, and he has a copy of the roster which lists all of the available players.
-- MWE
I think there was another lineup card error game as well.
I seem to recall both of these happening this season and in the majors, but I may be wrong.
Nick Leyva is managing in the Appalachian League?
1976-78, player (SS in college), Cardinals system
1979-80, manager, Class R Johnson City
1980, manager, A Gastonia
1981-82, manager, A St. Petersburg
1982-83, manager, AA Arkansas
1984-88, coach, NL St. Louis
1989-91, manager, NL Philadelphia
1992-93, manager, AAA Syracuse
1993-97, coach, AL Toronto (considered for manager, 1995)
1998-99, out of baseball
2000-02, manager, AAA Charlotte
2002, manager, R Bristol
2003(-04?), White Sox roving infield instructor
2004, manager, A Winston-Salem
2005, manager, AAA Charlotte
2006, manager, R Bristol
Is this a career path he has followed by choice? Is it normal for a minor league manager to move up and down between classes like this? Or to change jobs in midseason so frequently? And yes, I know his 1993 promotion from Syracuse to Toronto was due to a Toronto coach's auto accident.
By the way, while tracing Leyva's past, I found out that:
a) Dale Torborg has resurfaced as the White Sox's roving conditioning/ lucha coach.
b) Bobby Tolan is Bristol's hitting coach. It makes me very happy to see the name of a good player I remember from my youth in some context other than an obituary.
c) There is a Nick Leyva who writes for the Orange County Register. Different guy. He's younger, his eyebrows aren't as bushy, and he went to college at CS-Fullerton. Nick Leyva the manager went to college at LaVerne and was born in Ontario, CA. Perhaps they are father and son. I find it easier to think of LaVerne as a charming, elderly aunt than a college, but then, I have a charming, elderly Aunt LaVerne.
d) There is a Bucky Dent who writes for the Bristol, VA Herald Courier. Also younger than the AAA Columbus manager. The newspaper does not list a middle initial for him.
e) AAA Iowa, a long time Cubs' affiliate, was an Oakland farm club 1969 (or before) -1972, White Sox in 1973-74, Houston in 1975, White Sox again in 1976-80, and Cubs 1981-present. The Oakland/Iowa affiliation would make sense if it went back to the time the A's played in Kansas City and were a Yankees' farm club.
f) Ed Sprague, Sr. pitched eight ML seasons (1797 BFP) with an ERA+ of 89. Ed Sprague Jr. played 11 seasons (4587 PA) with an OPS+ of 89. Both with fairly long careers, and both equally below average. Weird, huh?
By the way, as far as I tell, the Bucky Dent we know about never played, coached, or managed in the Appalachian League or anywhere else in Virginia. He did play in Tennessee (Bristol straddles the Virginia/Tennessee border)- for Knoxville in the Southern League in 1972 when he was 20, and I would imagine there was no shortage of young single women from all over the state there at the time.
I remember attending an Appy League game in 2003 where Leyva was managing. He's a baseball lifer.
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