[外電] Surgery Will End Wang’s Season and Cloud Future

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Surgery Will End Wang’s Season and Cloud Future
By TYLER KEPNER
Published: July 28, 2009
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. —

C. C. Sabathia was showered, dressed and ready to leave Tropicana Field
after a disappointing performance in a 6-2 Yankees loss to the Tampa Bay
Rays. He had already talked about his effort, saying he had pitched horribly,
without fastball command, failing to give a hot team a chance to win.

Then Sabathia learned that Chien-Ming Wang would need season-ending shoulder
surgery. Instantly, his mood turned from frustrated to compassionate.

“Missing a year, going through the stuff he was going through when he was
here; it just stinks he’s not going to be here,” Sabathia said. “We really
need him. He’s a great pitcher.”

At least, Wang used to be a great pitcher, when he was the No. 1 starter
on the playoff teams of 2006 and 2007. Now Wang’s future is unknown, and
he may have thrown his last pitch for the Yankees.

Manager Joe Girardi said Dr. James Andrews would operate on Wang’s shoulder
capsule in Birmingham, Ala., on Wednesday morning. Girardi said Wang would
miss the rest of this season, but the extent of his absence beyond that
would be determined after the procedure. Girardi has already acknowledged
that Wang has rotator cuff damage.

If the outlook is bleak enough, the Yankees could make Wang a free agent
by not offering him a contract for next season. He made $5 million this
year and is eligible for arbitration. By rule, the Yankees can offer no
less than a 20 percent pay cut, or $4 million.

“I feel for him,” Johnny Damon said. “As a team, you always have to try
to rise above any circumstance. But for him personally, he’s had a chance
to pitch well in the big leagues for a few years, and you just hope it’s
not over. You hope he can recoup what he’s had in the past and go on and
pitch another 10 years, whether it’s for us or someone else.”

Wang felt pain in his shoulder on July 4, while pitching against Toronto
in the sixth inning at Yankee Stadium. He gave up a home run to Adam Lind
and lasted one more pitch, a sinker that came in disturbingly slow.

Wang had struggled all season, going on the disabled list in April for
weakness in his hips as the Yankees searched for a tangible reason to
send him to the minors. But the July 4 game was the first sign of shoulder
issues.

“He never said anything about his shoulder until that day,” said the
pitching coach, Dave Eiland. “He came out of the game and said,
 ‘Shoulder,’ and it caught all of us off guard. That was the best game
he had pitched all year, and you were like, ‘O.K., he may have turned the
corner.’ Then all of a sudden, bam.”

Wang had shoulder surgery in 2001, when he was in the minor leagues, and
he lost two months to a shoulder problem as a rookie in 2005. But this
problem might have been an indirect result of the devastating foot injury
he sustained rounding third base in Houston on June 15 last season.

Wang tore a tendon in his right foot and sustained a mid-foot sprain of the
Lisfranc ligament, an unusual baseball injury that comes without warning.
The injury had no direct effect on his shoulder, of course, but the resulting
inactivity and change to his routine seem to have had untold consequences.

“They always say once you get seriously hurt one time, you start changing
your body moves and everything,” Damon said. “Maybe he started doing
something different when he threw. Who knows?”

Girardi said there was no way to tell exactly why Wang’s shoulder gave out.
But considering his many physical problems and his generally woeful
performance (a 1-6 record and a 9.64 earned run average), Wang’s year has
been painful on many levels.

“I feel bad for him,” Girardi said. “He was on a roll last year when
he hurt his foot. He’s meant a lot. It’s tough to see a player go through
this.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/sports/baseball/29yankees.html?_r=1&ref=sports

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