Mike Mussina left the game with a strained left hamstring tonight. The left hamstring is his landing leg, and as John Flaherty just said, the Yanks will allow Mussina to fully heal. It could be three weeks or more for Mussina. Somewhere, Roger Clemens’ phone just rang, and somewhere else, a young pitcher who’s supposed to start tomorrow night may not take the mound for Scranton-Wilkes Barre.
Salivating over Santana
SI.com’s Jon Heyman reports that Johan Santana has broken off contract extension talks with the Twins. Santana, who wants a Barry Zito-sized extension, has a four-year contract that ends after 2008. The Twins offered him two years at $18 million a season, but Santana is looking for long-term stability. I can only dream that one day Santana, Hughes and Wang will be the subject of some bad sexual pun on the back of the Post or Daily News.
Who had April 10 in the injury pool?
Ex-Yankee Jaret Wright went down with shoulder pain yesterday. Surprise.
Update by Joseph P.: From the article:
“However, when Wright started warming up for the fifth inning last night, he was alarmed by a familiar feeling in the back of his right shoulder. Wright made it through one more inning before getting removed with shoulder stiffness…”
I understand there’s a bit of personal pride in toughing out injuries, but there has to be a point where you say, “I’ve had two surgeries on this shoulder and it has placed me on the DL as recently as 2005. Maybe I should tell someone NOW.”
Remember, back in April 2005, Wright “felt something” in his shoulder, and pitched until something popped in the fifth or sixth (maybe it was the fourth, I can’t remember). And then he missed nearly four months.
I couldn’t be happier to have him on another team.
Yanks win; Proctor struggles
Short post from me tonight on the game. We’ll have the WPA graph in the morning. Good work all around tonight. Alex Rodriguez is in the Zone with a big, fat capital Z. It’s something special when a player of his caliber enters this other-wordly hitting zone. I would think that no one will pitch to him soon.
Nice to see Andy Pettitte step up tonight. His success tonight and the Yanks’ overall play leads me to believe that the bad, cold weather had something to do with the Yanks’ lethargic opening week. Baseball is a warm weather sport. No team should play in 35-degree weather or the snow. Just as Indian fans.
Finally, a quick note about one of my favorite relievers. I’ve always loved Scott Proctor’s Stuff. His mid- to upper-90s fastball and complimentary breaking pitches made me a believer, and last year, he delivered on the goods. He also appeared in over half of the Yankees’ games and threw a career-high 102.1 innings.
But tonight, he threw 11 of his 17 pitches out the strike zone. He was pulled after 0.2 innings of work in what was then a seven-run game. On the short season, he has just 4.1 innings under his belt — small sample size, I know — but has given up four hits and three earned runs. His K:BB ratio, nearly 3:1 last year, is actually 1:2 this year. I just hope he wasn’t ran into the ground last year.
Does he know Derrick Jeter too?
Insufferable Red Sox fan and generally annoying know-it-all Bill Simmons referred to the Red Sox closer as John Papelbon in his most recent blog posting. Even Yankee fans who hate the Red Sox know that Papelbon’s first is Jonathan. The righty goes by Jon with nary an H in sight. As Yankee fans now know how to spell Mientkiewicz and Red Sox fans can’t even get the name Jon right, well, I leave the conclusions up to you.
The Abreu effect
Peter Abraham has an interesting piece up on the effect Bobby Abreu has had on Alex Rodriguez in the Yankee lineup. It seems that Abreu’s presence in front of Rodriguez has greatly helped the Yanks’ oft-beleaguered third baseman. I want to look at this more in depth later to see how Abreu stacks up with Sheffield in the three hole in A-Rod’s other years, but it’s an interesting find from Pete.
J-Roll and the Phils
I didn’t think Jimmy Rollins meant it so literally when he said in January the Phillies were the NL’s team to beat.
I’ll be here all week.
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