--- Eric Lutzker wrote:
>
> i recently got the '71 cards that they just last year redid for
> super-advanced and looking at the pirates i see that roberto
> clemente's arm is a -6. now i don't remember seeing anything better
> than a -5 before (am i just remembering poorly). i guess if anyone
> deserves it it is clemente. so how about it? has strat ever assigned
> anyone a -7? and has anyone else ever gotten a -6. would anyone ever
> try to send a runner on this guy? thanks, e

Hi Eric,

I bought the super-advanced 1971 set early this year, but I haven't
opened it yet, so I was surprised to hear that Clemente is a -6 on the
set. He was "only" a -5 on the original 1971 cards, the first season
that advanced-game features were available. I seem to recall hearing
somewhere that Clemente was a -6 in another re-created season from the
'60s. I haven't heard of anyone having an arm better than that.

I find it interesting that Strat revised Roberto's throwing-arm rating
for the re-created '71 set. I'm wondering if it's because the game
company changed its mind on what he deserved, or if it's because a -6
is more appropriate rating given all the new super-advanced rules for
cutting off runners and runner advancement on deep fly balls.

When I was buying Strat cards in the '70s and early '80s, I never saw
anything better than a -5. Personally, I think Strat just had an
arbitrary rule at the time that the arms couldn't be better than -5,
or worse than +5.

On an unrelated topic: Did everyone remember to put in their advance
orders for the 2007 season today?? Me neither! :-)

-Gary