Comments on: Wang tosses

By: What the #$@#!&#!! are the Yankees doing with Chien-Ming Wang? | The Yankee Universe

Wed, 27 May 2009 18:12:46 +0000

[...] his initial rehab, despite having almost SEVEN MONTHS to rehab. The guy was soft-tossing on OCTOBER 17th, for @#$$’s sake. Yet it took the 3 worst back-to-back-to-back starts in baseball history [...]

By: MasterShake

MasterShake — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:40:17 +0000

I actually remember that game because everyone was talking about how his use of the slider could really catapult him further as a pitcher. That game (where he had 9 K’s in 7IP) and the one against Boston (9IP, 2H, 1ER with 93 pitches) were two of his best games pitched. Looking back at his gamelog, its kind of interesting to see that the combined GB:FB ratio was 17:19 for those 2 games.

By: Doug

Doug — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 05:38:43 +0000

Yeah, remember the game where he worked off his slider and 4-seam and got 8 K’s? That was sick.

By: Mike Pop

Mike Pop — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:33:16 +0000

lol he keeps it short and sweet

By: whozat

whozat — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:46:17 +0000

Something to force them to swing at his sinker, I hope. I’d like to see him use his 4 seamer more, honestly. Right now, guy see fastball from Wang and just lay off unless it’s coming in waist-high. They know that it’ll dive below the zone if it looks like it’s coming in at thigh or knee height. I think he needs to show command of his 4-seamer down in the zone so that he can throw the sinker down there and they’ll still swing at it.

By: whozat

whozat — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:42:51 +0000

I don’t get it…are you worried about rust, or a heightened risk of injury? Not having faced batters doesn’t really bear on injury risk when you’ve got all winter and spring to gear up.

If you’re concerned about there being lingering foot problems…ok, that’s more reasonable. Or, about lingering foot issues leading to him compensating and increasing risk of injury elsewhere in his body…ok, I can see that.

But I don’t understand why you’re hung up on him not having seen hitters since June. Pretty much every veteran pitcher is about to spend 4 months not facing hitters. So what?

By: Relaunch

Relaunch — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:38:23 +0000

I love his quotes

By: daneptizl

daneptizl — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:16:24 +0000

Of course it wasn’t explicit…

By: E-ROC

E-ROC — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:04:21 +0000

CC, Peavy, Wang, Joba, and Pettitte……wow. I’m not advocating a trade for Peavy because the trade open many other holes. Just imagining what a rotation would be like with the addition of CC and Peavy.

I wonder what other pitches Wang will add to his arsenal this season. Glad to see he’s getting back on the mound again.

By: Ben K.

Ben K. — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:50:46 +0000

Hah. Yeah that was me, but it wasn’t explicit. I had a question but then realized that I needed to look at a few other things on that site before posing it. So I deleted it. For some reason, blogger just deletes the comment but not the author name.