Wang at least three months away
February 2, 2010, 4:00 pm by iYankees · 10 Comments
According to MLB.com’s Ken Gurnick, last week, the Dodgers observed the rehabbing Chien-Ming Wang as he threw off flat ground and, needless to say, they were not too impressed by the results. Gurnick says that Joe Torre’s club believes Wang is “three months or more away from pitching in a game,” meaning that he likely won’t be able to find a Major League deal until after the season has begun. In fact, Wang may have to wait until the summer in order to find a taker for his services. He and his agent, Alan Nero, could actually be better off with this midseason strategy as many organizations will be in search of added rotational depth once June rolls around, and clubs would likely be willing to spend more then, on a fully healthy Wang, rather than now, on a Wang whose future is still uncertain. Either way, regardless of his vague status, as stated by Keith Law, “Wang is worth a flier to see if he has something left… a sinkerballer can survive with a little less velocity, so he’s worth a look.” Thus, he will eventually land somewhere.
If you’re hoping to see the Yankees re-sign Wang, this might be good news for you in that he does not appear ready to sign with any other team, at least for several more weeks/months. However, a reunion is rather unlikely as there are many desperate teams out there willing to spend more on Wang – the Mets, for example – than the Yankees are.
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The mets can have him ,he will fit perfect in that mash unit.
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I can’t believe we still have 4mil this year and 4mil next year to pay Igawa. Who ever scouted him should be fired!!!!! Plus the yankees paid 26mil just for negotiation rights.
* ok i’m done ranting.
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Gotta look at it as sunk cost. The only positive is he cleared waivers a couple years back, so he isn’t on the 40 man roster and doesn’t count towards the big league payroll (at least as far as the league is concerned when calculating luxury tax). But his salary is still part of money the Yankees spend on business operations (likely part of the player development budget, one would assume), so it gets taken out of revenues when calculating how much they have to contribute to revenue sharing (I think?).
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would you consider him one of the biggest mistakes since the mid 90’s?
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I think we all would. It was a huge mistake.
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oh i know most would agree…I was looking to see who else the others who comment on this site wish the yankees wouldn’t have signed looking back.
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Oh, man. There are quite a few people I can think of, but Jaret Wright was one guy, IMO, who never made any sense at all.
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couldn’t agree more with you with Wright. what a disappointment he was.
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Carl the American idol Pavano comes in 2nd to KEI.THATS SOME ONE TWO PUNCH.
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Wang might be done. It’s not true a sinkerballer doesn’t need velocity. Wang relied on a Kevin Brown type 95 mph sinker. When he lost that after the injury, he got hammered. And his secondary stuff never developed.
Wang on the Mets would be a horror show.
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