[外電] Wang Going to Tampa to Strengthen Arm

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Wang Going to Tampa to Strengthen Arm
By JOSHUA ROBINSON
Published: April 21, 2009

Without his interpreter, Chien-Ming Wang spoke slowly and softly Tuesday
afternoon. He had just thrown nearly 50 pitches in a bullpen session and
felt satisfied, uttering a barely audible, “It was good,” with a trace
of a smile.

But those pitches, no matter how they broke, dipped or zipped, could
not erase the 186 he had thrown in six miserable innings this season.

“I know in the first three games I was not throwing good,” said Wang,
whose earned run average is 34.50. “I have to keep fighting to come
back.”

On Monday, the Yankees said they would skip Wang’s next start,
which was to be Friday in Boston. On Tuesday, Manager Joe Girardi
offered a little more detail on the Yankees’ plan to work Wang
back to the dominant form he showed in 2007. It will begin on Thursday
in Tampa, Fla., where Wang is scheduled to throw 100 pitches in extended
spring training.

“We think he needs to pitch to get him right,” Girardi said.

The Yankees cannot give Wang a chance to sort things out in Class AAA,
because he is out of minor league options.

The club was also adamant that he was not injured or feeling any lingering
effects from the foot injury that ended his 2008 season last June. But
Girardi and General Manager Brian Cashman softened their stance on
Tuesday, refusing to rule anything out. Wang has not yet had any
medical tests.

“We’re in full laboratory mode,” Cashman said. “We’re assessing
every aspect of Wang, from the Lisfranc fracture he recovered from to
that somehow, maybe in the kinetic chain, being an issue.”

Girardi said that he would make a decision on Wang after Thursday’s
outing, and that the news he was hoping for from Tampa was that Wang
had regained some consistency with his sinker.

“That’s where he’s gotten himself in trouble,” Girardi said. “He’s
gotten up in the zone, and when he gets up it flattens out.”

A longer outing may also be a chance for Wang to build up some of the
arm strength and rhythm that has eluded him in his three brief starts.
Wang has not thrown more than 73 pitches in a game this season or lasted
longer than three and two-thirds innings. His velocity is also slightly
below its typical 91- to 93-mile-per-hour range, but Girardi said that
was not unusual so early in the season.

If Wang shows some progress this week, his next major league appearance
would most likely be Tuesday in Detroit, giving him more than a week
between starts. Wang said he had hoped to prove himself much sooner
than that.

“Waiting maybe 10 days,” Wang said, “that’s a long time.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/sports/baseball/22yanknotes.html?_r=1

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