Steve Parris
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"Steven Michael Parris", is a former Major League Baseball pitcher for four teams from 1995 in baseball/1995-2003 in baseball/2003. He played for 14 years, including his time in the minors.

The most important start of his professional career came on October 4, 1999, when his Cincinnati Reds faced the New York Mets in a one-game playoff to determine final playoff spot in the National League. He was the losing pitcher in a 5-0 Reds loss, eliminating the team from the playoffs.

Parris is an alumnus of Joliet West High School and the University of St. Francis.

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I'm coaching my son now and I'm more defensive-minded in my coaching than offensive-minded. I think the home run totals in the big leagues are going to come down again. The game is going toward faster, leaner guys.

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There were times when I pitched that I would rather have seen a defensive player at a certain position behind me than an offensive player. It's tough as a pitcher to see players who should be out there and they're not because they aren't quite the hitter someone else is.

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But if your team scores 16 runs one game and one run the next several games, run support is not an accurate description of what is going on.

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Sandy Koufax pitched what, seven years? But look what he did those seven years.

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Pitching will become big again. The ERAs will drop again. The next 15 years, the game will be fun. There will still be home runs; weight lifting will be big. That's part of the game. But the days of 70 home runs are probably over.

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Maybe with relief pitchers, you need to look at not only how many saves a guy has, but how many innings he pitched getting those saves.

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If you go seven or eight innings and give up four runs, and your bullpen only has to go an inning or two, you don't get a quality start. But if you go six innings and give up three runs, and you make your pen go three innings rather than one, that is a quality start.

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When you talk about the Hall of Fame, I've always given the benefit of the doubt to the players. But without the stuff, does Jose Canseco get the numbers he put up? No.

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