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Yankees
From Newsday
Baseball
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Give Proctor a break: Rest him
Ken Davidoff
Baseball
Published August 31 2006
Before Game 2 of yesterday's day-night doubleheader, Joe Torre - notorious
for going to his top relievers very, very often - was asked about the
potential overuse of Scott Proctor.
"Am I worried about overusing him? You're always concerned about it," he said
after the Yankees' 2-0 victory in Game 1. "But when you face the games like
we play ... "
You need your best relievers often, he left unsaid, and you try to win every
single game.
Last night, the Yankees lost Game 2 to the Tigers, 5-3, because Torre went to
Proctor for the second time in a day and the 68th time this season, easily
the most in the American League. With Mariano Rivera having closed out Game
1, and with Kyle Farnsworth unavailable because of an ailing back, Proctor
got the call, and he came a strike away from victory - going 0-and-2 on
Curtis Granderson - before walking Granderson and serving up a three-run
homer to Craig Monroe.
Proctor's 86 relief innings lead all of baseball, and if Torre wants him to
be as effective in October as he has been since the All-Star break, he needs
to take it easy on the righthander. Especially now that the Yankees enjoy a
comfortable, eight-game lead over the plummeting Red Sox in the AL East.
To think that yesterday began with such glee for Proctor and the Yankees.
Torre needed just one pitch out of Proctor in Game 1, as Magglio Ordonez sent
a first-pitch slider to Melky Cabrera to strand two Tigers in the eighth b
efore Rivera picked up the baton.
"I might need a week off after that one," Proctor joked.
He had to settle for about six hours. Farnsworth's back flare-up, an
intermittent storyline this season, cast doubt once more on the future
reliability of the expensive setup man. Even though, to his credit, he has
been far less horrible than this space anticipated.
That's all the more reason why the Yankees need a non-exhausted Proctor in
the playoffs, setting up a non-exhausted Rivera.
To his credit, Proctor took full accountability for his poor pitching. He
refused to play the fatigue card, as well as subscribe to Torre's theory that
he might have been intimidated by the temporary closing job.
"I'm not real happy with it," Proctor said. "I need to attack guys better, do
what I've been doing all year. It was just embarrassing."
That's a little strong, despite the intense boos from the full house. Come
on, people, don't you have any appreciation for where you'd be without this
guy? What's most surprising on these 2006 Yankees? That Game 1 winner
Chien-Ming Wang is an AL Cy Young candidate, that Carl Pavano's hibernation
has extended through this entire season, or that Proctor has become such a
crucial component of the bullpen. For me, it's absolutely Proctor's success.
"He was our extra pitcher at that point in time," Torre said after Game 1.
"And then he basically graduated to what he is now, someone you can count on
in the seventh, the eighth or even the ninth inning."
At the time he spoke, Torre didn't know that Proctor would graduate to closer,
thanks to Farnsworth's latest back problem. Trouble loomed when Proctor
walked Brandon Inge with one out, and then when he couldn't get Granderson
out even though he jumped ahead of him.
Pitching coach Ron Guidry visited then. "He was just coming out trying to
give me a breather," Proctor said. "I was throwing a lot of pitches there. I
was trying to catch my breath and formulate a plan on pitching to Monroe."
Instead, Monroe crushed a first-pitch slider into the netting beyond the
leftfield wall. And the Tigers, immersed in a deep slump, found themselves a
desperately needed wake-up victory.
This shouldn't be a devastating loss for the Yankees, but it should serve as
a wake-up call concerning Proctor. He threw 31 pitches in Game 2 and he
seemed wiped out by the end, even as he scoffed afterward at "the E word,"
exhaustion.
"This game isn't an October game," Torre said, explaining why he sat out
Rivera in Game 2. The same logic should apply to Proctor's work schedule.
Time to give him a "Pavano," our new term for "time spent not pitching,"
before he can't lift his arm anymore.
Workhorses
Scott Proctor, who leads the AL in pitching appearances, is one of three
Yankees in the top 10:
Player, team Games
Proctor, Yankees 68
Camp, Devil Rays 61
Farnsworth, Yankees 61
Villone, Yankees 61
Rincon, Twins 60
Cotts, White Sox 60
Shields, Angels 60
Calero, Athletics 60
Putz, Mariners 59
Sherrill, Mariners 59
Late games not included.
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