[新聞] After Winning 20, Retirement Is Tempting Mike Mussina

[leddy (耿秋)]

看來Moose話中的意思, 可能會選擇退休。除非有球隊願意給他3年約, 讓他可以拿到
300勝。他認為別人可能想法不同, 但他認為如果這樣就退休實在很酷。

September 28, 2008, 10:03 pm
After Winning 20, Retirement Is Tempting Mike Mussina
By Tyler Kepner

Tags: Bob Feller, Bob Gibson, Jim Palmer, Mike Mussina, Yankees

Mike Mussina often visits the indispensible baseballreference.com, comparing
his career to those of comparable pitchers. What he finds is that very few
pitchers finished gracefully.
Here’s a small sample:

– Jim Palmer was 0-3, 9.17 in 1984
– Bob Gibson was 3-10, 5.04 in 1975
– Bob Feller was 0-4, 4.97 in 1956

Mussina passed all of those Cooperstown greats on the career wins list this
season. And here’s how he did over all in 2008: 20-9, 3.37.

Listening to Mussina this weekend, and talking with him all season, I believe
he will retire. I think Mussina’s head guides his heart, and his head has
spelled out a lot of rational reasons to retire.

He’ll be 40 in December, and he has 270 wins. If he is healthy for one more
season, he’ll probably exceed 280. At that point, he said, there would be no
turning back. He’d have to get 300, and that would mean pitching in 2010 and
2011, too.

“If I’m in for one, I’m in for three,” Mussina said. “That’s basically
what the decision is. Now, where? I’m not going to bounce around from one
team to another. I don’t want to do that. I’ve been lucky enough to play
for two teams for 18 seasons, and I’m not going to bounce around to try to
scratch something out that still may never happen.”

For Mussina, there seems to be a strong appeal in going out on his terms, as
a 20-game winner, and spending the rest of his life in his beloved home of
Montoursville, Pa. He has a wife and three children and has lived in the same
town all his life.

“Ninety-nine percent of the players do not get to make that choice for
themselves,” Mussina said. “They play the game, and somebody else tells
them that it’s time to go. I’ve been really lucky. I’m at a situation
where, if I decide enough’s enough, I get to decide for myself.”

In other words, Mussina can retire from baseball, without baseball retiring
him. That seemed to be his fate after last season, when he struggled to a
5.15 E.R.A., and even this year, when he lost three of his first four starts.
He believed he needed to win in Chicago on April 23 or lose his spot in the
rotation.

“I was worried about my spot on February 15, and for two months, it really
didn’t change that much,” Mussina said. “But since, honestly, nobody
jumped up and was in a position to take it from me, and we weren’t playing
very well as a group, Joe kept giving me the ball and things got better.”

Mussina did it by pitching inside more, by dialing down the velocity of some
off-speed pitches, and by having extraordinary luck with his health. And if
he never comes back, he will have finished with a flourish: his first 20-win
season.

“I think it’d be pretty cool,” Mussina said. “I don’t know what
everybody else thinks, but I think it’d be pretty cool.”

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◆ From: 140.130.155.141
推 Rogerkaf:頭推~  別走啊~~~Orz
推 jayin07:三年約實在太長，很差
推 siliver:的確,兩年前也才簽兩年約,現在卻要三年.....
推 OoyaoO:1+1最好 2+1應該是極限了吧
推 CUTECNS:3年約讓他拿300勝...Moose不就自認每年拿不到15勝了...
推 cardfat:要三年就讓他走吧 RJ說不定肯回來投一年
推 mirrorlee:每年10勝也夠猛了
推 jayin07:換更老的，這樣不太對吧lol
推 akainorei:他大概算平均值跟本身年齡吧....
推 yyhong68:應該是說如果他明年投，一年健康大概可以拿到280勝
→ yyhong68:那如果是那樣，就是一路往300勝衝到底。
→ yyhong68:第一句應該是說記者推估後的，後來問Moose那就會有第二句
推 OoyaoO:最新乳摸 我們可能吃不下CC
※ 編輯: leddy           來自: 140.130.155.141      (09/30 12:52)
推 danbin:Moose...
推 lockerty:也許GM會願意給他2+1的約　只要不要太貴?
推 raygod:一年十勝還不如練新人-_-,穆帥明年可能回到聯盟平均水準
推 miumiu8271:一次給3年真的不太可能..希望Moose能乖乖簽約
推 jayin07:ERA+100可以吃180局也不錯了
推 namdoogmi:只要待在洋基...防禦率別超過4.5 一年15勝感覺還OK的
→ jayin07:如果你缺一個五號的話，這是個很稱職的五號
→ j094097:練新人然後聯手拿個七敗這樣
推 CUTECNS:但是 Moose 不是花五號投手等級的約就簽得下來的
推 noahlin:為了省錢不搶CC實在說不過去 光是Pavano+派或穆的薪資就有
→ noahlin:25M上下了
推 OoyaoO:還是說看到酒鬼今年這種操法怕到了XD 據說CC準備連四次中三
推 meier0112:CC不想來,錢多也沒用
→ j094097:Sheet?
推 CUTECNS:CC 一個人一年可能就要 25M 了....
→ j094097:少打一個S 計中的鍵盤好爛= =
推 OoyaoO:如果CC可以維持這兩年的表現 25M是貴 但是不會不值得吧
推 Sechslee:對CC是又期待又怕受傷害... 很怕又過來養傷的
推 laechan:Moose 可以光榮退休了
推 jayin07:老實說我還是對Hughes有相當的信心哦lol
推 OoyaoO:咪吐 但是我對宗痛信心不大= ="
推 Sechslee:我對他明年就站穩SP沒信心 XD
推 Ally1213:MOOSE .....>"<
推 rjv:我也覺得他還是光榮退休比較好~因為Jordan就是一個例子XD
推 nikesister:對了Moose最近吃的M&M產地不知道在哪??
推 XBox:樓上XDDD
推 timolin:球季結束後...就是精采乳摸上場..去年大戲是A-Rod，今年CC
推 vanpersie:1+1+1如何? 再配上獎金制度 我覺得還是很賺
推 JEON:還在hughes喔 還不夠慘嗎
→ appshjkli:現在看Hughes被炸就幹他幹的一文不值的也沒好到哪去
推 MoonHeart:Moose....Q_Q
推 jww:1+1跟本是不可能會簽吧
推 findme:想到凱文科斯納當投手的那部電影
→ findme:迴光返照、在最美好的時刻離去
推 casualy:去年冬天A-Rod的戲很早就落幕了 真正精彩的是Santana