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Show SOME TRADES LIKELY BY MANAGER HUGGINS Building for Future Is Task Imposed on All Pilots. The statement that Miller Hugglns recently made, suylng that he would not make any changes in the Yankees' lineup, should not be taken too seriously. seri-ously. While none of the mainstays main-stays of the team are In danger of being replaced by new tulent, It seems likely that several changes will be forthcoming next year when the bell rings. Building for the future Is one of the tasks Imposed on every baseball manager, mana-ger, and Hugglns Is too learned In the ways of championship ball clubs to regard past success ag any guaranty to future triumphs. Age annually exacts ex-acts its toll among major leaguers, and the Y'ankees, In spite of their Impressive Impres-sive performance In the recent world's series, cannot be regarded as Immune from the call of Father Time. Hug-gins Hug-gins knows the Infallible signs of fading fad-ing greatness, and his only course Is to strengthen by making changes. A player turned adrift from a championship champion-ship club gets much sympathy from a public which forgets for the moment that a manager is paid to produce a winning ball club. Hugglns can be expected to be as alert for playing strength this winter as he was during the off season a year ago, when his team seemed so badly In need of shaking up after the sad showing In the 1922 series. He traded no regulars then, but he offered some of his regulars in trades which did not materialize. It is safe to say that with possibly three or four exceptions Huggins would talk trade now for any of his 1923 world's champions. That Is the way of baseball, a game in which standing pat Is akin to slipping backward. John McGraw traded one of his brightest stars, George Burns, after the 1921 series and never again used as a regular the player who was the scintillating luminary In that triumph tri-umph over the Yankees Johnny Raw-lings. Raw-lings. Tet MeGraw's 1922 team won another world's title. So do not be surprised if Huggins swings a deal Involving In-volving one or more of his 1923 regulars. regu-lars. Standing pat has Its dangers. |