Wang looking to reestablish himself in Washington
Posted by: Chad Jennings - Posted in Misc on Oct 18, 2011 
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Two years later, it seems obvious that the Yankees made the right choice with Chien-Ming Wang. He’d been a steady force in their rotation for a good part of four seasons, but injuries had taken their toll, and the Yankees let Wang walk away after the 2009 season.
In the two years since, he’s pitched in 11 big league games.
But somethings are finally starting to come together for the 31-year-old. Those 11 appearances came in the final two months of this season, and Wang had a solid 4.04 ERA in those 11 starts. In his final four starts of the year, he struck out 16 and walked none. He won his last two starts and allowed just one run in six innings in his season finale.
Now Wang is looking to resign with the Nationals, the team that spent a year and a half trying to get Wang healthy again.
“I’ll try to work on my breaking ball more and hopefully get better and better again,” Wang told MLB.com in September. “Every year, we have to deal with different conditions. I hope I can have a really good year, get all my good stuff and keep myself at the best condition. I want to do my best in the future.”
In theory, Wang might be the kind of risk-reward signing that might interest the Yankees for the back of their rotation — a more familiar but slightly younger version of Freddy Garcia — but Wang seems to like the idea of returning to the Nationals and being of some value there.
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I’m hoping that CMW gets back to his Yankee days numbers. Really fine pitcher and always seemed like a good person, just from his interviews. a pity that he had to get hurt, but, that’s Cervelli….errr….baseball.
Chad, you or your scouting contacts see DJ Mitchell as a possible CMW pitcher or a bullpen type for NY? One more question (for now). Will you be keeping a running update on who the Yankees may expose to the Rule 5 Draft. I know that you have a lot of free time on your hands and think this would keep you occupied and gainfully employed
Very good GB.
the nationals the last time i looked told wang to throw mostly sinkers.
the yankees never told him to do that.
they clearly did not know what to do with him when they had him.
despite the wins and the success, they fell into the false sabermetric dogma that he should throw less sinkers and get a higher strike out rate.
there is no point in getting a pitcher that you don’t like the way he gets outs.
leave the poor guy alone. he escaped and if he’s smart he’ll stay free of coaching by an organization that doesn’t get him.
Now you’ll have to try to work “let AJ loose out there” into a sentence.
the nationals the last time i looked told wang to throw mostly sinkers.
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2nd lowest GB% in his career, lowest fastball% in his career, highest curve% in his career, highest secondary offering% in his career.
Oh nooooooooooooooooooooo Nationals!!
Captain Varitek speaks…..
http://www.boston.com/sports/b.....d_sox.html
pat,
Tito did it.
Varitek says it’s all Francona’s confused misperception. They were one big happy family. Every time one of the players speak, they fall even further in my estimation. No responsibility. All blame. I hope he never plays again.
“based on what was going on with him personally and maybe how he related to the team,”
Not sure what the heck this means. Could it be that Tito couldn’t stand the immature losers anymore?
Pointing out Tito’s personal problems is below the belt. Not surprised, though.
As for Wang, I’m glad he’s found his way back. What a long and lonely battle it must have been for the guy. Good luck to him this season.
Varitek has had about 15 years to learn the “Red Sox Way”. When somebody leaves the organization, they were the cause of all problems.
The days of the Boston “hometown discount” will be coming to an end, too.
It’s “The Curse Of The Gorilla” at work.
“there is no point in getting a pitcher that you don’t like the way he gets outs.”
I wasn’t entirely sure what this meant, so I used google to translate it into simplified Chinese and then back into English.
The result was:
“Pitcher did not get points, you do not like to get out of his way.”
When Granderson and Cano visit Taiwan in November, they should stay out of Wang’s way.
On nights when they were not pitching, Beckett, Lester and Lackey would exit the dugout as early as the 6th inning, walk back to the clubhouse, and fill cups with Bud Light beer. They would then return to the dugout with cups of beer and drink while watching the game. It didn’t make a difference whether the Red Sox were winning or losing at the time and the practice became more frequent later in the 2011 season. One Red Sox employee said Beckett, Lester and Lackey appeared “bored on nights they weren’t pitching and this is how they entertained themselves.”
Read more: http://www1.whdh.com/news/arti.....z1bAtppxLI
Of course Wang should try and stick with the Nationals – and of course he would – they gave him a chance. I will only wish him the best of everything.
I don’t blame the Yankees for their decision not to re-sign Wang. But Wang owes the Yankees nothing.
Bud Light?
These guys really do wish they were in a frat.
I thought everyone in Boston was required to drink Sam Adams
LGY mocks Socks’ domestic mass market beer swilling.
Maybe they just wanted to start their Oktoberfest early this year?
Thought I’d repost this:
Gordon Edges said today on ESPN that he would walk from Boston to his house 45 miles away if boston didn’t win the WS next year
popeyes chicken too i heard
blake -
He said that TODAY about next season?
Hope he plans on getting into shape.
villa,
yes
The Sox mishegas this week has been like a 2006/2007 Yankee flashback. I prefer the current Yankee keep it in house approach better- reality isn’t always pretty.
who said objectivity was dead
LGY mocks Socks’ domestic mass market beer swilling.
Maybe they just wanted to start their Oktoberfest early this year?
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They must have been saving up for their trip to Germany.
Blake
What was the context of him saying that?
Andrew Marchand
Just got off with a baseball official, looks like LA or Japan for Kuroda. So don’t cross him off list, but don’t count on him either.
LGY,
They were talking about the Sox moving forward…..and he was like…..getting all these problems sorted out should help and blah blah blah….and then he said he thought they should be a playoff team next year and have a good shot at the WS and actually he told some friends this week that if they didn’t win it he would walk 45 miles home to his house.
The other Boston writer on there….can’t think of his name said they had to trade Lackey this winter…..that they just couldn’t bring him back…..like that’ll be easy to do.
Well, it took a few starts, and it took until August 9th, but the Nationals did finally tell Wang to give his sinker a try.
It’s not so much they told him to throw sinkers from the beginning, but he was having mixed results with everything else. He was not confident enough in his sinker to throw hit, but they told him to do it, and the result that day were very, very good.
It would seem he doesn’t have the same velocity on it that he once did, though.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....story.html
Bud Light isn’t actually beer, so it looks like they’re off the hook.
This is the original post from last week:
http://espn.go.com/boston/mlb/.....-sox-saved
Looks like Edes is riding the pledge to walk from Boston to his hometown for all it’s worth.
Wow. Gotta love the cheerleaders in the press box. I believe you’re thinking of Cafardo.
Think Lohud trade proposals are bad? Check this one out submitted to Cafardo in his latest question and answer article:
Hey Nick, two questions: First how about Brett Butler as Sox manager? He has great credentials, would demand discipline and his fire would appeal to Sox fans. Next, how about moving Lackey to the Dodgers with Josh Reddick and a player to be named for Andre Ethier ?
Best line so far from Extra Bases:
“Varitek, time to take that “C” off of your jersey and replace it with an “L.”
Red Sox would better off with “Rhett Butler” managing.
The orioles sent their director of player development to watch yu darvish pitch. On a day he wasn’t scheduled to pitch. Orioles magic.
5. Trade Lackey, of course. There have already been rumblings out of San Diego that the Padres might be willing to take him and reunite him with manager Bud Black, his pitching coach in Anaheim. Given the airplane-hangar dimensions of Petco Park, Lackey, a fly ball pitcher, might actually win some games there, especially in the offensively challenged National League West. The Sox still owe him $45 million, but the Padres were willing to pay just less than $5 million for Jon Garland when nobody else was interested, he gave them a good year, and maybe they’d be willing to pay $5 million a year for Lackey. Or perhaps they’d be willing to move salary in switch-hitting third baseman Chase Headley, who would give the Sox some insurance in case Youkilis can’t play third base every day.
Lol…..the Padres to the rescue.
Ok so edges guarantee was on making the playoffs….not winning the WS…that’s a little better
If the Orioles are interested in Darvish that’s a red flag
Jack McKeon claims Beckett was the ringleader in Fla with his clubhouse antics…..why isn’t he getting the brunt of it in beantown? hypocrites.
Darrin Oliver is a Free Agent at the end of the season. He’s had a long run of good pitching, but, he has two strikes against him…he’s 41 years old and he’s a Type A Free Agent. About the only time two strikes means you’re out.
part of reasons wang won 19 games in 06-07 more than other teammates is he pitched into 7th innings for most of his starts. nyy scores most in late of the game, for pitchers only pitch 6 or less innings in nyy, hardly gets a win. wang pitched into long innings and got wins, but he also got higher era in the 6-7th innings.