Don't even think about it, Hank.
"I've thought about it," Steinbrenner told The Post. "I saw him on TV, and I did think about it when I was watching." ...
"What sticks out in my mind, that team in the late '90s, the starting pitching," he said. "You had [David] Cone, El Duque [Orlando Hernandez], Wells . . . they were all big-game pitchers. They all came from elsewhere - not in the system.
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"Everybody talks about the great players from the farm system that we had in the '90s, but it was the starting rotation. That was a huge part of the success. Huge."
Oh boy, I hope the "Boomer" thing is just some rumor or just a joke to divert attentions away from the increasing number of injuries to this team. Betemit got bitten by the injury bug and previous to him, Albaladejo. We'll be down to signing little leaguers by the all-star break if this keeps up.
Rasner pitched well and kept hitters from digging in for 6 innings. I felt half of the second run the Tigers scored should have been charged to Farnsworth. To my surprise Ras was not out there for the 7th inning -87 pitches until that point. About a quarter way into the season, the bullpen looks to be over working. Ohlendorf, Farnsworth and Hawkins all are on pace to touch or exceed 80 innings.
Jeter got his first dinger!
Hopefully Petitte can make a strong start tomorrow.
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So let me get this straight. Hank helps hire a guy in Girardi who emphasizes fitness and preparation, and whose very career as a player were predicated on exactly those two aspects. But Hank is also contemplating bringing back a guy in Wells who is such a booze hound that he admitted to throwing his perfect game an about an hour and a half of sleep because of his bender the night before? who refused to maintain a regimen of exercise, who wouldn't listen to his coaches and maintain a consistent throwing regimen between starts? The results of these slovenly habits were never more apparent than Game 5 of the 2003 World Series when, after the Yankees lost a 12-inning Game Four, Wells pitched all of one inning because of a chronically bad back he never took adequate care of. Wells has been the antithesis of fitness and preparation. Additionally, he got into occasional trouble off the field for his late-night partying, with David Cone saying in a recent broadcast that he went out with Wells in no small part to "keep him out of jail." Horrible idea, Hank.
Can the Yankees please stop these short-term, rabbit's-feet signings and moves for players such as Clemens, Wells, Randy Johnson, and Kevin Brown? for old expensive players with the idea that their past successes will translate into future ones as if simply because of their presence, the team will rise up? Clemens, for all the recent revelations, still had an example of hard work to instill before these accusations of lechery and HGH surfaced. Not so with Wells.
I couldn't agree more with you, Beth.
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The only thing he could be is a mentor to young pitchers. It is sad that he does not realize he is done, but he is. The Yankees bet bet is to hope that Rasner continues pitching well and that Igawa, Kennedy, or Hughes can fill the number 5 spot.
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