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June 16, 2008
Chien Ming Out
By Frankye Solares.
The Yankees spanked the Astros this weekend everything was perfect in Yankee land for about 15 hours. This morning they discovered that Ace Chien Ming Wang will be out for at least 10 weeks of action with a bad ankle. The team has not announced who will take his turn in the rotation. Both Franchise players in Hughes, and Kennedy are injured they are not be expected to return for a while.
Fans and media members are going to throw names at you like Sabathia, Arroyo, Oliver Perez, Ben Sheets, Randy Wolf, or at-least call Oak about Rich Harden, and Dodgers about Brad Penny who has a player option. Yet that would be a mistake at this point in the season. All these players would deplete the minor league build up that Brian Cashman has compiled.
Who To Turn To?
At at this point in time the Team should look in the system. The options are not as bad as you would read from your expert media. From Trenton Chase Wright is 6-1 2.56 ERA has 35 K's, Jason Jones 8-2 2.30 ERA has 45 K's. At Triple A they have Jeffrey Marquez 3-1 in his last 4 starts with a 2.50 ERA. Kei Igawa who is at this point sadly the front runner for the rotation. Igawa is 5-2 last ten games with a 4.22 ERA.
Should you Worry?
No! Schedule in the next two weeks looks favorable. 3 games against Padres, 3 with the Reds, 3 with Pirates, 4 with the Mets, and 3 against Texas. 12-4 would be bad but give if they do that no one should worry.
Sox Appeal?
Boston next 3 opponents are not a cake walk, they are after all the world champs, playing the Philly's, Cardinals, and Arizona is a nice test balloon to see if they let the Yankees back in.
July 4th weekend will be fun.
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