[NYTimes]Yanks May Lose Wang for Rest of the Season

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Yanks May Lose Wang for Rest of the Season

By TYLER KEPNER
Published: July 15, 2005

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BOSTON, July 14 - The Yankees took a body blow before the first pitch of
the second half of the season on Thursday. Chien-Ming Wang, the rookie
who has been the Yankees' most consistent starter since his promotion
from the minors in April, may be finished for the season because of a
shoulder injury.

General Manager Brian Cashman would not say if Wang would pitch again
this season. Cashman would not reveal the Yankees' diagnosis of Wang's
shoulder injury, but a magnetic resonance imaging exam on Monday was
discouraging enough for the team to send Wang to Dr. James Andrews,
an orthopedic surgeon.

Wang will meet with Andrews on Monday in Birmingham, Ala., for a second
opinion. Wang, 25, has a history of shoulder trouble; he had surgery to
repair a torn labrum in 2001 and missed the whole season.

Asked when Wang would return, Manager Joe Torre said: "It'd be strictly
a guess. I can't tell you if we're going to get him back in three weeks
or next spring. I don't know which one is closer to the truth. It's just
sad, for me, because he's been so consistent."

Wang threw in the bullpen on Sunday, and the pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre
said he detected no problems. But Wang woke up on Monday with shoulder pain,
and his agent, Alan Chang, reported the condition to Cashman that day. Wang
was in New York on Thursday.

"He's just trying to stay positive and hoping the situation will improve,"
Chang said.

Chang was as secretive as Cashman about the specifics of Wang's injury.
Asked if the injury was in the same area as the 2001 injury, Chang had
no comment. He would also not say if he expected Wang, who is 6-3 with
a 3.89 earned run average, to pitch again this season.

The Yankees promoted the right-hander Tim Redding from Class AAA Columbus
to start in Wang's place on Friday against the Boston Red Sox. The Yankees
acquired Redding with Darrell May from San Diego for Paul Quantrill on July 2.

For the moment, the Yankees' rotation consists of Mike Mussina, Redding
and Randy Johnson. The team does not have a starter for Sunday or Monday.

Kevin Brown, who has missed a month because of a strained lower back, is
an outside possibility for Monday but is more likely to come back later
next week. Brown will throw in the bullpen on Friday in Tampa, Fla., and
Cashman said the Yankees would know more then.

Two other starters besides Wang are down with shoulder injuries: Carl
Pavano and Jaret Wright. Pavano is in Tampa for his rehabilitation, and
Cashman said he would not be ready for the Yankees for at least two weeks.
Wright, who has not pitched since April 23, continues to recover slowly
and will not be back until August, Cashman said.

In keeping with the shoulder theme, Redding missed five weeks this season
because of a shoulder strain. He won his only start for Columbus, allowing
two earned runs in five innings, but he was 0-5 with a 9.10 E.R.A. for the
Padres. A 10-game winner for Houston in 2003, Redding was thrilled to be a
Yankee.

"I'm from Rochester," he said. "I grew up watching half of these coaches in
here fighting for the pennant. I could die today a happy man putting the
Yankee uniform on for the first time."

Redding was lined up to pitch on Friday for Columbus, and his start here
will be the first time Stottlemyre will have seen him pitch. Torre said
he did not know anything about Redding "other than he has a pretty good
arm."

Torre and Stottlemyre said Tanyon Sturtze and Darrell May were possibilities
to start on Sunday and Monday. But the Yankees prefer Sturtze in the bullpen
and were not encouraged by May's first start with the team last Saturday.

Cashman said he had been trying to acquire pitching help from outside the
organization, and those efforts could intensify with the injury to Wang.
The Yankees have told teams they are not desperate to make a deal, but
there is obvious urgency to their situation, and they may have to consider
trading for Al Leiter, who was designated for assignment by Florida on
Thursday.

Leiter, 39, was 3-7 with a 6.64 E.R.A. for the Marlins, with 60 walks and
52 strikeouts in 80 innings. The Denver Post also reported that the Yankees
had discussed a trade for the Colorado Rockies right-hander Shawn Chacon,
who is 1-5 with a 4.30 E.R.A. this season.

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紐約時報的消息也出來了，看情形並不是很樂觀。T_T


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