(Sorry for the title, I just couldn’t resist) Yankee starter Chein Ming Wang is on the road back from his shoulder injury. Mark Carig of the Newark Star Ledger has the story:
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NEW YORK — Yankees pitcher Chien-Ming Wang said Friday that his right shoulder is pain free. But Wang, sidelined since July 5 with a strained right shoulder, declined to put a date on his potential return from the disabled list. On Monday, Wang said he is scheduled to play catch for the first time since suffering his injury.
“Now, it’s getting better and better each day,” said Wang, who has spent the last several weeks rehabbing and spending time with this newborn son. “A lot better.”
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During the team’s road trip, Wang has come to Yankee Stadium each day for treatment on his shoulder. He has also been doing light strength exercises. Manager Joe Girardi said earlier on Friday that the team is taking care not to rush Wang back from the injury.
Chein Ming Wang will start his throwing program on Monday, so figure he’s a few weeks away from a rehab start or two. Assuming he has no setbacks, I’ll guesstimate he’s about 3 weeks away. Which puts a return to the mound with the Yanks at sometime in early August.
One thing that should jump out at most keen Yankee observers is the timing of all this. Brian Cashman can talk about internal options all he wants, the reality is he won’t have a very good idea of how effective Wang will be until after he pitches a game or two for the team, and that will happen AFTER the July 31st trade deadline. Despite his contention that the trade deadline doesn’t really exist anymore
, as things stand now the Yanks have the 3rd best record in Baseball, meaning that 27 teams could block any deal they make after July 31st with a waiver claim. Plus, the Yanks are only 2 games behind the Red Sox, so its easy to imagine the two trading places in the next two weeks.
I think Cashman has to proceed as if Wang doesn’t exist, and then simply deal with the rotation when everyone is back and healthy. If he was to swing a deal for a starter, you coul push back Wang’s return for a week or two, and then you’re only a week away from September when the rosters expand. Can’t have too much pitching, as the old saw goes.
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They made a huge mistake rushing Wang back so soon because they worried about Joba I think this time they need to keep him rehabbing until he completely gets his pitching down, I think this team can whether the storm while he is gone with guys like Mitre and maybe stretching Aceves out a bit or even possibly with a trade although I don’t see it now. They just need to make sure they don’t panic about the rotation this time and let Wang get his mojo back.
Aceves starting won’t happen again, it was universally accepted in Yankeeland that taking him out of the bullpen was a mistake. They could have won 1-2 of those games vs LAA if they had anyone who could get somebody out past the 6th inning.
As far as holding back Wang goes, you can’t do very much of that. The AAA season ends in late August, so you’d only be holding him back for a week or two, max.
Mitre is where the decision gets made. If he’s good, they hang tight. If not, they need to make a move of some sort.
It doesn’t matter if the triple A season ended tomorrow as far as I am concerned, would you rather end Wang’s DL time becuase the triple A season is coming to a close or because he is ready to be effective. They need to keep him on the DL and and make him pitch he doesn’t need to worry about anything but mechanics and control.
This probably isn’t true. Aceves likely would have pitched 2-3 innings in the Mitre game in Minny anyhow. so he likely wouldn’t have been available for a couple of days.
He’s been averaging 6+ innings per start, so I’m not sure why you would think this is probable.
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Damaso Marte’s return to the BP and Melancon being in the majors, not to mention Bruney’s probable return to form means we can, at some point, return Hughes to the rotation.
Hughes to the rotation won’t happen this season. He’s too good out of the bullpen, and you’d lose him for close to a month while you’re stretching him out in AAA. That means Brian Bruney is your setup man, and we’ve all seen how bad he’s been.
Next year, Phil comes into camp as out 5th starter. But there’s just too much working against it this year.
Bruney has gone through a bad stretch. But let’s not forget how good he was earlier in the year.
I agree with Steve Hughes is in the pen for the rest of the year it would just take to long to stretch him out and by the time he was fully ready to start again it would almost be time to put him in the pen for the playoffs. Besides Melancon is going to be going back down to triple A to make room on the roster for Mitre unless they plan on sending Robertson down which I am in favor of.