Big Read: For three years together, Roberto Alomar and Omar Vizquel treated baseball fans to a barely believable defensive show. Teammates, admirers and the dynamic duo themselves remember what it was like to take in the magic firsthand. ByDavidSingh
We thought [Alomar] was the piece we needed to get over the top. Because we had been to the World Series a couple times and just didn’t win. So, we were excited to have him. Now we had one of the strongest teams probably in the history of the game up the middle, with those two and Kenny [Lofton] out in centre and Sandy [Alomar Jr.] behind the plate.When I signed with Cleveland, first of all, I wasn’t even thinking about Omar Vizquel.
“You break him down and he’s got his feet in the right position, the hands, the head, everything. He was just flawless.” Once Vizquel was called up to the Mariners in 1989, Reynolds showed his new double-play partner a video clip of Smith in action. “I go, ‘This is the goal, man. This is the guy you want to be. You want to win as many Gold Gloves as he has.’ [Omar] was like, ‘He’s pretty good.’ I was like ‘Yeah. He’s the gold standard.’ But I think Omar became that standard.”
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