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標題：[blog] Posada says he'll be ready for opening day
時間: Wed Feb 4 13:55:00 2009
Posada says he'll be ready for opening day
February 3, 2009
Greetings from Tampa, where it's sunny, but so cool that some of the
folks around the Yankees' minor-league complex were bundled up in
turtlenecks and gloves (the non-baseball kind). 'Course, that's more of
a comment on their ability to withstand cold than anything else - it was
about 55 degrees.
Anyway, I am down here for a little pre-spring training visit and saw
several Yankees hard at work, including Jorge Posada and Chien-Ming Wang.
Posada has been showing up most days since early December to get his
surgically-repaired shoulder ready for the season and says he can feel
great progress and there's no pain. He made 140 throws during a workout
Monday and says he'll increase the intensity Wednesday. He throws every
other day and while he won't be ready to catch in spring training until
at least March 6, he said, he will be ready for opening day.
After a light workout in the batting cage, Posada went through a series
of strenuous exercises in the weight room and did some agility drills.
He chatted with two reporters for about 20 minutes after his work was
done. In addition to talking about his rehab and Joe Torre's book, Posada
said he was excited to catch CC Sabathia and AJ Burnett and had even talked
to Sabathia after the signing to tell the pitcher he was glad they were
going to be teammates.
"It'll be fun to see how they work, calling their games," Posada said.
"Hopefully, they can make us better and I know they will."
Posada also made it clear that catching means a lot to him. He acknowledged
that his health is a question mark facing the Yankees this season and he is
eager to prove he can still catch at a high level.
But what happens if he can't? "I can't think like that. I can't really
put myself in that position. I'm a catcher right now. I'm going to work
hard to be a catcher and hopefully I'll stay healthy and everything is
well enough that I can do it. People have asked me, 'When are you going
to change positions, where are you going to go?' But I don't see myself
going anywhere else right now.
"I know where I stand. I know what I can do. Obviously, I have a lot of
people giving me support. I'm not going to embarrass myself. Hopefully,
I can still do it for a little bit more."
Posada also praised Jose Molina for his work filling in last year while
Posada was out and downplayed the idea that the Yankees missed his fiery
personality and leadership during the season.
"Last year was just a bad year overall," Posada said. "We went through a
lot of injuries. We ran into two teams (Boston and Tampa Bay) better than
us and they showed it, they proved it. I don't know what I could've done.
I think having a five-man rotation like this is going to help us, knowing
we've got a chance to win."
As for Wang, he threw his first pre-spring training bullpen, going for
seven minutes and 27 pitches. Decked out in a dark blue shorts and a
gray Yankees' T-shirt pulled over a long-sleeve T-shirt, he threw only
fastballs under a blue sky. Pitching coach Dave Eiland was among those
who watched, along with pitching guru Billy Connors.
Wang, whose 2008 season was wrecked by foot injuries, said afterward,
"Everything feels fine. It's just normal." Wang had gotten a clean bill
of health in October from Yankee doctors, even throwing a few bullpens then.
When he went home to Taiwan during the winter, he did a lot of fitness work
on his feet, he said.
He described last year as "sick. I couldn't do anything for the team.
I missed four months, but now I'm healthy, strong."
The Yankees will keep a special eye on Wang's delivery, because of his
foot injuries last season. "I'll watch to see if he's favoring his foot,
but we don't anticipate that," Eiland said.
- By Anthony McCarron
http://tinyurl.com/b3ka6z
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