Setup's perfect for Radinsky

White Sox left-hander Scott Radinsky has the perfect mentalityfor a setup reliever. Saves mean nothing to him. Not now, anyway.

"I'm not a stat man," said Radinsky, who twice has had to yieldapparently easy save situations to Bobby Thigpen, who lost one of theleads. "I care more about inherited runners than saves and ERA. Ilike to make our starting pitcher feel good on the bench when he seeshis runners still on base."

If Radinsky truly doesn't know his own statistics, he's unawarethat opponents' .149 batting average against him with runners inscoring position last season led the league.

The White Sox might be interested in their 1992 bullpen stats: They lead the league in converting save opportunities with 6-of-7.The first-place Athletics are 6-of-10 and the defending worldchampion Twins are 2-of-5. Their bullpen ERA of 2.77 is fifth in the league behind the Angels(2.45), Red Sox (2.67), Yankees (2.70) and Blue Jays (2.73).

Thigpen has made things interesting in some scary finishes, buthe thinks he's back on track after making spring-training adjustmentsto improve on his 30-save output of last season.

"I'm throwing the ball a lot better," he said. "My arm's in abetter slot. If there's one big difference from last year, that'sprobably it.

"The ball would take off up and out to the right. Whenever Ithrow a ball like that, it's because I either flew open, I dropped my arm or I wasn't getting on top of theball."

Radinsky, meanwhile, just keeps moving through lineups. Hehasn't allowed a run in four innings and is holding opponents to an.083 average.

He doesn't even keep a "book" on opposing hitters.

"I don't think you're going to get them out the same way twice,anyway," Radinsky said. "Every hitter's the same to me. I don'teven like to know who I'm going to face when I come in from thebullpen.

"It doesn't make any difference. You've got to face somebody.I like to get out there, then see for myself who it is.

"Sometimes I don't know him, anyway."