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Today, my dreams of the Yankee rotation finally rounding into a nice collection of power and finesse pitching when Chien Ming Wang strained his shoulder today. It was especially painful because I thought Wang had pitched the best all season but the danger signs were there when his sinker was only 91mph.

This guy's conditioning has me concerned. I almost believe he shouldn't be pitching in the majors because teams are now in midseason form, while he's basically coming out of extended spring training.

He's a slow healer and now, the Yanks might have to dilute their pen by putting in Hughes to take his spot.

Baffling and I wonder what do the Yankees do? Call up Kei Igawa? Sign Pedro? trade for another arm?

start phil

trade for street

It sucks that Wang may have direct injury trouble again, but it's a nice silver lining if it forces them to stop being stupid with Hughes.

Call up Melancon to take Phil's pen spot is my vote.

1) fake injury - they just wanted to get him back on the DL so he can get more AAA time without having to DFA him

2) people were always weary of him, he never struck anyone out. letting batters make that much contact is not good. his success for having such an extremely low K/9 was unprecedented. especially with a very weak NYY defense, it was bound to catch up to him. Tex and Pay-Rod are our only above average defenders. Jeter has no range, Cano is average, Damon has looked terrible and has no arm at all (even in left), Gardner covers ground but has no arm, Melky above average arm, slightly below average range, Swisher has looked good and bad at times in the field. Guys are running off Posada.

Call up Sergio Mitre for a start and see what he's got.