The new team was terrible to start, going 66-81 (.449) on the season. The 89ers were
basically a group of former MLB players who weren't good enough to make the
MLB expansion team's roster. As soon as somebody began to play well, they were
immediately promoted to the majors to try help the new parent club. Anybody decent
who had been drafted wasn't old enough to play in Triple-A yet, and this wasn't
like the expansion teams of now... the Rockies and Devil Rays all had some
very choice picks to steal away from the other Major League teams. They also
had free-agency. In 1962, you got whoever the other teams didn't want (which is
why the Colt 45's counterpart NY Mets lost 120 games, winning only 40). |