Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
April 16, 2006
The Right Wang

Chien-Ming Wang found his out pitch today, striking out eight Minnesota Twins lealding to a 9-3 Yankees victory. Wang had good strikeout numbers in the minors, but they disappeared once he made the big club. Eight strikeouts is a major league career high, going way past his previous record of five. Wang still induced a lot of ground balls (13 GB, 4 FB), but with 8 K in seven innings, there were a lot less that could go through for hits. He needs more performances like this to be successful in the bigs.


Posted by David Pinto at 10:11 PM | Pitchers | TrackBack (0)
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I would agree with you that Wang needs to show a lot of good stuff to win a positive spot in the major. Once he feels confortable and gets used to the major league style, his struck out ratio and ground ball ratio will surface strong. It's nice to see a young star showing, especially from the Far East Taiwan. It's impressive how he win the confidence of Torre and Cashman in a short one season.

Posted by: ken at April 20, 2006 11:19 AM

I don't like the title by De Pinto "right wang" it is offensive and in fact racist. Your ignorance is demeaning to Chien Ming Wang, your probably jealous little David. Don't accuse me of political correctness either since this has nothing to do with politics.

Posted by: Bruce at April 27, 2006 02:25 PM

De Pinto's title of his comments are offensive and racist, especially the title right wang. Its so old and demeaning get a life loser. Why use the number wang player on team.

Posted by: Bruce at April 27, 2006 06:48 PM
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