European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 1, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 32 the stars and stripes i sports monday March 1,1993 indians Olin on by Chuck Melvin Winter Haven Fla. A Steve Olin already one of baseball a better closers wont be satisfied until he a one of the Best. Quot yeah that a the next step a says the Cleveland indians submarine style reliever who saved 29 games and won eight others last year. Quot my goal is to be one of the most dominant closers in baseball if i can. If not this year its going to happen sometime. In be got a lot of  tie 27-Ycar-old Olin went 8-5 with a 2.34 Era in 1992. He was successful in his first six saves of the season extending his Streak to 17 successful conversions dating to 1991. For 1992, he converted 29 of 36 save opportunities. The 29 saves ranked eighth in the league and his 72 appearances ranked third. Yet manager Mike Hargrove still gets nervous when he has to leave Olin in against a left hand Olin de hitter. Olin a unusual sidearm delivery is hard on right handed batters because the Ball sails away from them but it can be easy pickings for left handers who have hit Over .300 against Olin each of the past two  Olie has trouble getting out left handed hitters a Hargrove said. Quot until he can do that consistently he a not going to be in the class of a Dennis Eckersley. Olie has come up with a Eha Ngeup and if he continues to improve on that he has a Chance to become that kind of  nothing would be More pleasing to Olin who like most relievers dreams of the Day when he has a reputation like Eckersley a. Quot consistency. Mean that a Dennis Eckersley a Middle name a Olin said. Quot you have to go in there Day in Day out and throw strikes and get out of Tough situations. A Eckersley a reputation in fact has become an import taint weapon for him Olin said. Quot Guys know you have to just come out and Start swinging a Olin said. Quot being a closer that a your Best Friend if you can get those Guys hacking right at the beginning get a couple ground balls get out. Of the game throw As few pitches As you can so you can throw tomorrow night one pitch double play you re out of there.�?�. Olin said he gained Ron Fidance in his ability to get left handers out last year mostly because he was forced to face them so often. A the Only thing i changed is i started throwing my Slider More to them. That a where i had made my mistake i was trying to get them out with fastballs and they a just wait for the fastball they could hit. Now in a just treating them like a right hander and throwing everything in be got at  Valenzuela gets shot with o s just for openers Clido Perez gets Loose at the new York Yankees Spring training Camp at fort Lauderdale Fla., Friday. Yankee manager Buck Showalter has named Perez who was 13-16 with a 2.47 earned run average and 218 strikeouts in 247tt innings last season to Start when the Yankees open their season april 5 in Cleveland Sarasota Fla. A Fernando Valenzuela who Hasni to pitched in the major leagues since 1991, agreed saturday to a minor league contract with the Baltimore orioles. Valenzuela who is listed As 32 but is thought to be much older has pitched in the mexican league since he was released by the California Angels in 1991. The Chubby Lethander was 10-9 with a 3.86 Era with Jalisco last summer and 7-4 with a 2.95 Era with novo Joa in the Winter pitching a combined 26234 innings. A that Speaks for itself. He a sound and he knows How to pitch Quot Oriole general manager Roland Hemond said. A we can to expect him to be the same Pitcher he was but in be seen a lot of pitchers when they get older make adjustments and still  from 1980-90, Valenzuela averaged 14 wins 11 Complete games 235 innings and 176 strikeouts per season with the  pours same old wine from new bottle by Jim litre the associated press if hype is the difference Between what something promises and what it delivers then much too much already has been made of the dawning of free Agency in the National football league. Because for All the talk of Money and Freedom and All the gnashing of Teeth commentary that preceded it the new improved Var Sion of the nil a from the players perspective anyway a will look suspiciously like the old one. Granted it will Cost the owners More Money and some control. It already has. But hardly As the players once envisioned a whole lot More Money and a whole lot More control. And the longer this agreement runs the More apparent it will become the players lost not Only round 1, but every round that follows. Ralph Cindrich an agent saw positives from both sides of the agreement. But maybe he was just being kind. Quot on the one hand if you go Back to 1988, when the Union got busted from that perspective the players have come a Long Long Way. Back then it was almost unthinkable that there would be any kind of free Agency whatsoever. Quot on the other hand front a management perspective a better Job could not have been done by their leaders. Being on the ropes a Cindrich said Quot they came Back with the Best possible  without going into the Small print if All free agent team becomes instant contender by pave Goldberg a football writer new York a if football were baseball and All five year players whose contracts have expired were free to negotiate with any other team the All free agent team in this first year of the a Fly a new system would approximate the All pro team. But its not. Teams Are allowed to protect three players and Only a few real All pros like Philadelphia a Reggie White and Phoenix a Tim Mcdonald Are Likely to be free to move. That s because they Are among the 16 a named plaintiffs in the various lawsuits that de to the  agent team offence or a Gary Clark Washington Mark Carrier Tampa Uay. Art Monk Washington in the acc rec incr sets the a Keith Byars in Philadelphia. T a Gerald ferry los Angeles rams Don Maggs Houston g a Bill Fratic Atlanta Houston Hoover  a Randy Grimes Tampa Bay. A a a Chris Miller Atlanta if healthy Jeff Hostetler by giants or Sieve Cuc Stcin Dallas off the Bench. Re a Rod Burnstine san Diego Eric Dick arson and Marcus Allen los Angeles raiders punt returner a Kelvin Martin Ballas. Kick returner a Joe Howard Johnson Minnesota. _ kicker a Dean Biasucci Indianapolis. Defense de a Charles Mann Washington Reggie White Philadelphia. It a Jerry Ball Detroit it a Doug Smith Houston. Old a Greg Lloyd Pittsburgh Kevin Greene los Angeles rams ild a Sam Mills new Orleans Shane con Tan Buffalo cd a Gill Byrd san Diego Audray Mcmil Lian Minnesota. S a Tim Mcdonald Phoenix Chuck Cecil Green Bay p a Jeff Gossett los Angeles raiders. You sat Down and made a list of what both sides appeared to get out of the Deal it would look something like this labor about $200 million in Cash to individual players to dissolve a Battery of lawsuits that the players were Likely to win control Over the very a very a lucrative nil marketing program fewer restrictions on the movement of players and improvement in the Standard pension and Benefit package. Management a Cap on Rookie salaries a Cap on team salaries that is Likely to kick in As Early As next season con Tingent on revenues and the Chance to keep nearly All of the real Impact and salary trend setting players from Ever reaching the marketplace. At first glance the agreement might look like a Wash. But if you look closely at what the owners secured almost ail of them guarantee no outbreak of the a Stop me before a spend More disease that is responsible for the wildly inflated salary Structure and wholesale movement of players currently afflicting baseball. Though the players will be depressed when this realization finally lakes hold the rest of us May one Day be grateful and this much is certain nil management already is. Very grateful in fact. Instead of being drawn into speculating bidding trying to build a Winner new York giant pm George Young lauded the agreement for not forcing management a into bus station  in other words Young does no to believe that players will be moving in wholesale numbers unlike baseball where some teams turn Over 50 percent yearly