21.   Particularly since the staff ace is now Ken Hill, who won four games last season.

22.   Park also had six early starts when staff ace Ramon Martinez was out for more than a month with a groin strain.

23.   Pitching is decent, with staff ace RHP Ben McDonald.

24.   Previously, the plan was to go ahead with staff ace Ramon Martinez, regardless of the situation.

25.   Pitching coach Al Nipper, hired last July at the urging of staff ace and buddy Roger Clemens, was reassigned to the minor leagues.

26.   Scheduled to start Wednesday, staff ace Ramon Martinez will start Tuesday instead and therefore be available for the season finale, next Sunday.

27.   Rogers just keeps delivering graduate-level seminars on how to be a staff ace.

28.   Since their slump, the Orioles have won three straight and send staff ace Mike Mussina against Minnesota today in his first start since coming off the disabled list.

29.   Staff ace Kevin Brown and Hideo Nomo are both scheduled to start Saturday.

30.   Some players believed that Gaynor would turn to his son and the staff ace, Casey.