Yankee fans have to realize that Wang is basically done. He was a one pitch pitcher. He survived due to a 95 mph sinker like Kevin Brown. But unlike Brown, he never developed any secondary pitches. He fooled around with a slider but never trusted it. Now thanks to his shoulder his sinker is more in the high 80s as we saw last year. That’s why he was getting creamed.

Then, Pete calls you clueless with no basis for such an insult, I make a post, in essence coming to your defense for being unnecessarily insulted, and you chastise me over the semantics of an earlier post. Doesn’t make a ton of sense to me.

Trust me, if I’m wrong about something when I post on here, I’ll be more than willing to admit it and apologize. I have no reservations about admitting such failures.

Especially since Wang could use the haven of the NL & those two teams pitcher-friendly parks to get back on track.

But the whole point of this post centered on the idea that Wang could sign earlier, based on the Stark report.

They think both Wang and Mitre are not good, but they wanted pitching depth and they chose to bring back Mitre and not Wang because… Mitre is easier to fit in a budget.

I’m sure if the Yankees thought Wang wasn’t good but Wang only cost 850k, Wang would still be in pinstripes and Mitre would be out on the street. They chose the smaller upside depth pitcher for budgetary reasons.