[新聞] Igawa sent to Minors

[gelee (kao!)]

Nardi Contreras 跟 Gil Patterson不知道是什麼來頭？
不過看文中說明，
DeSalvo好像是他們調教出來的？

也好啦，到小聯盟好好練一練，
MLB真的不是練球的地方。
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NEW YORK -- Kei Igawa's big-league career is making a detour to the Minors.
Citing inconsistency and ineffectiveness over half of his first six Major
League appearances, the Yankees optioned the 27-year-old left-hander to Class
A Tampa on Monday.

"We just want to get him comfortable doing something different and that's not
going to be easy," Yankees manager Joe Torre said. "It's not going to come
overnight. The most important thing is that he understands it and trusts the
fact that this is going to be good for him."

The Yankees made a $46 million investment in Igawa, a three-time strikeout
leader with the Hanshin Tigers in Japan's Central League, but the import has
had issues maintaining his performance early in his Major League career.

"I had success here and also failure as well," Igawa said through an
interpreter. "To be consistent at the Major League level, I can definitely go
down to adjust in the Minors."

The Yankees had originally intended to send right-hander Darrell Rasner down
to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre in a move to create roster space for
Monday's starter, rookie Matt DeSalvo, but Torre and general manager Brian
Cashman met Monday and instead decided to ship out Igawa instead.

Torre said that Igawa handled the message -- which was delivered in a meeting
before Monday's game against the Mariners -- rather well.

"We're just trying to get him comfortable with what we feel will help him be
more consistent," Torre said. "He took the news fine. We took a lot of time
obviously making sure that he understood that he's still very important to us
and we're taking this step to get him better than he is."

"I think going down to the Minors is an opportunity to adjust and come back
to the Majors [at] 100 percent," Igawa said.

Igawa has had bright spots in his brief big-league tenure, most recently a
six-inning relief stint against the Red Sox on April 28, in which Igawa
allowed no runs and two hits.

But Igawa -- who is 2-1 with a 7.63 ERA in six appearances (five starts) --
was in the bullpen that day because his previous start against the Devil Rays
was unsuccessful. On April 23, Igawa allowed seven runs on eight hits in a
loss at St. Petersburg, Fla., prompting the Yankees to remove him from the
pitching rotation.

Igawa's last effort, a May 4 loss to the Mariners, was similarly frustrating
for the Yankees. Igawa allowed eight runs on nine hits in four innings of
work, surrendering three home runs, despite the fact he later told reporters
his effort had been acceptable and he threw just one bad pitch.

In that most recent start, Igawa even abandoned his full windup, preferring
to instead pitch from the stretch, where he feels he can find better control.
That leads the Yankees to believe that Igawa must make adjustments related to
his balance; Igawa has walked 13 and struck out 19 in 30 2/3 Major League
innings.

"There are some things he's got to fix, mechanically, we believe," Yankees
general manager Brian Cashman said. "He's had six games here: three been very
good and three have been not very good.

"He's got Major League ability, we have no doubt about that. We've seen it in
three games, but unfortunately we're not seeing it consistently."

While with Tampa, Igawa will work with pitching coordinator Nardi Contreras
and Minor League pitching coach Gil Patterson.

The process could be a relatively lengthy one -- Contreras said the early
focus of his efforts with Igawa would concern deconstructing his pitching
motion and performing a lot of work in the bullpen and in dry mound sessions,
with game action a secondary concern at this time.

"I don't know how long it's going to take," Igawa said, "but I'm going to do
my best to get back up."

Contreras -- who was at Yankee Stadium on Monday to watch his pupil, DeSalvo,
make his Major League debut against the Seattle Mariners -- said that he has
a plan to help bypass the language barrier inherent in dealing with Igawa,
who speaks little English and relies on a full-time interpreter to translate
into Japanese.

Contreras said has already ordered a montage of videotape depicting star
left-handed pitchers like Chicago's Mark Buehrle and the Mets' Tom Glavine in
the hopes of relaying messages to Igawa by image.

"He's got the stuff to pitch here in the big leagues, and it shows it when
he's able to throw strikes," Contreras said. "It's just getting to a
consistent basis. We have to give him a chance to repeat his delivery."

Igawa, who was touted as a long-term asset by Cashman on the day he was
introduced to the New York media in January, said that he was aware a
reassignment to the Minor Leagues could be a possibility when he signed his
contract with the organization.

"If you don't show results here up in the Major Leagues, the Yankees demote
to [the] Minors," Igawa said. "I knew that before I signed with the team."




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推 Boyzone:小王的穩定相對就突顯出來 時好時壞的下場就是去1A練
推 tokyoto:覺得跨文化的適應問題對他和松阪影響比較大，只是他爆較快
→ tokyoto:台灣球員都先去小聯盟打滾過，能習慣美式的操兵和生活作息
→ tokyoto:所以上大聯盟後適應比較不是問題
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推 useful:去minor適應一下也好
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