Rasner made 20 starts last year according to baseballreference.com. That's part of the rotation. Hughes had a 6.62 ERA at the ML level. He was clearly ineffective.
He was never planned to be part of the rotation. He was only in there because of injury. That's the whole point. The injuries to the planned starting staff were so long and so severe that you think Rasner was a planned starter.
See what happens when A-Fraud stops taking steroids? He gets injured, lol, im just kidding but on a serious note, A-Roid being out until May is good news for the rest of the AL East.
The rotation was supposed to be Wang, Mussina, Pettitte, Hughes and Kennedy. That was it. Kennedy made 9 starts until May 27th. Hughes made 6 until April 29th when he got hurt. As I said Rasner was not even in anybody's dreams.
Well, of course somebody has to fill in when somebody gets injured. You don't forfeit the games. What is your point? What started this was my comment about how many starters were hurt for the Yankees last year and for how long. The very fact that you and Devil talk about Rasner as a starter prove my point. If Rasner were a starter for the Yankees where is he now? It's not Burnett, he took Hughes spot. It's not Sabathia, he took Mussina's spot. He is still on the roster so where is he if he is a Yankee starter? Actually, he's not on the roster. Maybe he's back in the minors.
Not confused. Just the idea that A TRADE MUST BE MADE when it's being reported that a guy will be out til Mid-May. Now, if he's going to be four months, maybe you make a trade... but otherwise, why sacrifice the players? Better off just making a play for Nomar or something. You're missing the point. If Beckett and Wakefield go down with injuries, and Penny, Buchholz, and Smoltz all suck or can't pitch... to the point where Bowden had to make 20+ starts for your team, would you think it wasn't fair to say that you lost 60% (or more) of your rotation because you had Bowden as a part of it? Of course not. Jesus Christ, see what you did? You made me defend Don. You should be ashamed of yourself.
If this injury is part of a progressive, degenerative arthritic condition A-Rod isint going to have as long of a career as people think. Do the Yankees still have to pay out his contract if he retires?
Because it's hard to play baseball with an artificial hip. The cyst is symptomatic of an arthritic condition. Osteoarthritis is no joke.
If someone was paying you $27.5 million each year as long as you made a slight effort to play baseball (see: Pavano, Carl), would you voluntarily retire? Or would you spend eight years attempting rehab and comebacks? If he were a quadriplegic, I doubt he'd walk away from that kind of money, even if Boras would let him. (Pun intended.)
youre the Don of Metland arent you.The injury is not bone related at all. Put the radio on once in a whilr
