(這篇在討論傷兵問題是否是跟換了新體能教練有關)
Nothing unusual about condition of Yanks' health
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
BY ED PRICE
Star-Ledger Staff
MINNEAPOLIS --
After last season, the Yankees fired their strength and conditioning coach
and replaced him with a two-man "performance enhancement" team.
In the old George Steinbrenner days, there would have been another change
by now.
Over the past six weeks, five key Yankees players have gone down with muscle
strains. While in the past that might have drawn the ire -- and ax -- of
The Boss, general manager Brian Cashman sees no link between the new staff
and the rash of injuries (the latest of which caused left fielder Hideki
Matsui to go on the disabled list, effective last night).
"I'm concerned by it," Cashman said. "But as I read every day, it's going
on all over the place."
Cashman has a point. Among those out with muscle strains are Cleveland
catcher Victor Martinez, Baltimore catcher Ramon Hernandez, Marlins
shortstop Hanley Ramirez, Kansas City closer Octavio Dotel, Washington
shortstop Cristian Guzman and Minnesota's Rondell White, who was not in
the lineup last night against the Yankees because of a strained calf.
"I think there's a lot of different things that contribute to all that
stuff," Cashman said. "We have an older team and we've been playing in
35-degree weather every day. If it was only happening here, I'd question
myself. But it's not only happening here. It's happening everywhere."
The Yankees' list includes:
Right fielder Bobby Abreu, who missed three weeks of spring training
with a strained right oblique.
Left-hander Andy Pettitte, who came down with back spasms during spring
training, forcing him to miss a start.
Projected Opening Day starter Chien-Ming Wang, who is on the disabled
list with a strained right hamstring, suffered while running sprints
late in spring training.
Center fielder Johnny Damon, who was back in the lineup last night after
not starting three straight games because of a strained calf that forced
him out of the season opener.
Matsui, who pulled his left hamstring Saturday running out a grounder.
Reliever Scott Proctor said, "It's tough to correlate" the rash of muscle
injuries with a change in conditioning staff, "but one can make an argument,
that's for sure."
Manager Joe Torre blamed the latter two injuries on the cold weather in
New York and said the first three may just be normal spring training
setbacks.
"We don't think it's anything that we need to change, let's put it that way,"
Torre said.
After last season, Cashman fired strength and conditioning coach
Jeff Mangold -- Cashman declined to give an explanation yesterday,
out of fairness to Mangold, he said -- and replaced him with director
of performance enhancement Marty Miller and performance enhancement
assistant Dana Cavalea.
"What we're trying to do is provide to the players things in-house they
had been going outside for," Cashman said.
According to a Yankees official who asked not to be identified because
he was discussing players' medical issues, Wang came to spring training
with a sore left hamstring and might have been hurt while compensating
for that, and Pettitte hurt himself doing squats -- an exercise
recommended by his personal trainer but not used by the Yankees.
Miller and Cavalea now stress "core" (midsection) and "functional"
(targeted for the sport) training. The weight room at Yankee Stadium
no longer has machines for bench presses or leg curls.
Matsui, speaking through interpreter Roger Kahlon, said the only thing
he could have done to prevent his injury was "not swing at that pitch.
(The new stretching program) has absolutely nothing to do with it."
Cashman has barred Miller from doing interviews. But Miller recently told
The Palm Beach (Fla.) Post: "I'm in charge of all on-field and off-field
conditioning programs, like anything you see them doing on the field,
anything that they've been doing in the weight room. ... I've been able
to come in here and really kind of change this whole department around."
Ed Price may be reached at eprice@starledger.com
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