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Baseball Musings
March 29, 2006
Yankees Recovering

Good news on the Yankees pitching front yesterday. Wang's knee was good enough to throw 50 pitches in the bullpen. Carl Pavano threw an inning in an actual game, although he did have a mishap:

The ball was trickling along the first base line and Carl Pavano - he of the balky back - lumbered after it. Pavano bent down, fielded the grounder and, in a move that could hardly be called graceful, tumbled to the ground and tagged the bag with his glove as he rolled.

For just a moment, everyone feared the worst. Pavano was making his spring debut two days before the Yankees leave Florida because he's been nursing an injury and this couldn't have helped. But Pavano came up smiling, shot a goofy look at Joe Torre and pitching coach Ron Guidry - who was laughing hysterically - and then proceeded back to the mound to finish his lone inning of work.

So it looks like the rotation will be Johnson, Mussina, Wang and Chacon, with the healthier of Wright/Pavano eventually joining those four.

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Posted by David Pinto at 08:06 AM | Injuries | TrackBack (0)
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