Except that they did.

Joel Hanrahan pitched the top of the 11th before the game was suspended. Afterwards he got traded to Pittsburgh.

When the game was suspended, Elijah Dukes was on second base. He’s in AAA now. So he was replaces by Nyjer Morgan, who came over from Pittsburgh in the same deal that sent Hanrahan to the Pirates. Morgan scored on a botched double play.

So the winning run was scored by a guy who wasn’t on the team when the game started, making a winning pitcher out of a guy who not only is no longer on the team, but was basically traded for the guy who scored the winning run. Bizarre enough for me!

I’m not saying they handled his foot re-hab well or not, I have no idea. They got advice on a rare baseball injury and followed it in good faith. I will agree that perhaps they should have been more aggressive in noticing what was awry in spring training, but it’s also understandable that they believed inactivity and rust was to blame, and that as soon as he got back to strength he would be fine.

I believe they figured even if he wasn’t 100%, it would work itself out with time and pitching, but who could have imagined he be as bad as he was?

And the only thing I fault them for was having him come back from SWB too soon.

But he was making progress and even you mentioned here that he was making progress, that his arm slot was improving his velocity was improving and it was probably a matter of a couple of starts before Wang was close to back.

He has a history of shoulder problems.

It is incredibly unfortunate that his shoulder got injured. Especially since up to that point, he looked to be even closer to the Wang of old.

Instead of ranting about how Cashman is negligent, perhaps the shoulder injury is a blessing in disguise, because now he can rehab properly.

I know you hate Cashman, but you are assigning motives to him that I simply choose not to believe any GM is capable of.

Cashman admitted they told him not to do his normal lower body regimen during the offseason because of his lisfranc injury.

That lack of work on his legs is what exacerbated Wang’s issues in April because his velocity was way down and didn’t have the strength in his legs to drive the ball.

The Yanks told Bruney the very same thing over the offseason and he’s had elbow issues all year.

Maybe these issues are related or maybe not. But I certainly wouldn’t be surprised if it turned out to be the case.

It really is a baseless conclusion.

I don’t want Wang to “move on” and I don’t think the Yankees want him to either.

When Wang is back in August dealing and when he’s back next year winning 17 games I’ll accept your apology on Cashman’s behalf

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the yankees had him pitch all of spring training without having measured his lower body strength after cashman told him to do nothing all winter.

that was what caused the resulting shoulder injury .

the lower body weakness caused him to lose his normal arm slot and be almost a foot high at times.

cashman is negligent for knowing wang was injured and telling him to do nothing until he healed over the winter and then didn’t bother checking to see if he was healed and up to full strength before pitching him like anyone else in spring training.

the yankees most certainly created conditions that were conducive to causing the shoulder injury.

just like they caused joba’s shoulder injury last year by stretching him out too fast.

despite what you say in your allegience to cashman, teams can hurt pitchers and in wang’s case they did.

wang , for his own sake really needs to move on.

I think it will be hughes.

Agreed with Pepitone. I don’t want another high paid player in his 30′s. I especially don’t want to give up a ton of young talent for said player.