[blog] No Easy Answers on Wang

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No Easy Answers on Wang

By Tyler Kepner
BOSTON –

You watch Chien-Ming Wang pitch, and you think, “It’s not supposed to be
this difficult.” That is exactly the opposite feeling as when you watched
him before that awful foot injury in Houston. When Wang was going 46-15 over
two and a half seasons, it seemed too easy. Nobody could generate so many
grounders so efficiently, could they? He was the last guy you ever had to
worry about.

Now he is the Yankee who causes the most consternation. Wang’s return to
the rotation is only marginally better than his brutal beginning there in
April. In two starts, both just 69 pitches, he has thrown 7 1/3 innings,
allowing 13 hits and nine runs, with four walks and eight strikeouts. His
season E.R.A. is 14.34.

“We definitely want him to be where he was in the past,” Johnny Damon
said. “It seems like every time this year when he starts, our bullpen has
to come out and throw a lot of innings. That was the problem with our bullpen
early in the season, because we used them quite a bit.”

Joe Girardi would not commit to giving Wang another start, but I think the
Yankees have a lot more to lose by replacing Wang now. There’s nowhere else
to put him: he can’t go to the minors because he’s out of options; he’s
throwing 95 miles an hour, so he isn’t hurt; and you can’t rely on him as
a reliever. Let him face the Nationals on Tuesday, see if he improves, and
evaluate him again after that.

The problem is, the Yankees always want to win now, and they could reasonably
expect Phil Hughes to do a better job than Wang. Also, there’s no evidence
that they know how to get the best out of Wang. Dave Eiland, the pitching
coach, seems baffled.

In the bullpen and before games, Eiland said he likes what he sees. Then
the game starts and Wang loses his consistent arm slot.

“I can’t go stand behind the mound with him during the game,” Eiland
said. “He’s got to go out there.”

The Yankees could do worse than call on the former pitching coach Ron Guidry
as a troubleshooter, as Peter Abraham suggested on his blog during the game.
It’s hard to argue with the results from Wang during Guidry’s tenure:
consecutive 19-win seasons and a strong working relationship with the
pitching coach, which seems to be missing now. Maybe another set of eyes
and a familiar, friendly face could help. At this point, it couldn’t hurt.

http://bats.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/no-easy-answers-on-wang/

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