{"id":4352,"date":"2012-08-09T11:05:32","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T15:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=4352"},"modified":"2012-08-23T11:50:28","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T15:50:28","slug":"wang-gets-stay-of-execution-with-latest-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=4352","title":{"rendered":"Wang gets stay of execution with latest “injury”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wang on his signing day. There won't be a press conference on his release day. Photo Jeff Saffelle\/Nats320 blog<\/p><\/div>\n

Chien-Ming Wang<\/strong>‘s latest (and last) rehab start in Harrisburg ended with him “complaining of soreness<\/a> in his right hip” and being pulled after the latest of his ineffective starts for AA Harrisburg.<\/p>\n

This has to be the least surprising bit of news related to Wang’s injury and rehab assignment imaginable.<\/p>\n

Do you mean to tell me that the Nats most ineffective starter, one who lost his starting role and was banished to the bullpen to do mop-up long man duty, and then was ineffective even in that role, was sent to the DL with a questionable hip injury<\/a>, and when it came time to either re-instate the player to the active roster or to Desginate him for Assignment (since he’s out of Minor League Options) he suddently has a re-occurence of the same hip injury, meaning his rehab time clock resets to 30-days and allows him to wallow in the minors until the roster expansion date of September 1st (as I predicted in my July 3rd posting<\/a>)?<\/p>\n

I’m shocked.<\/p>\n

Clearly there’s no place for Wang on the team, both in the short term and the longer term. \u00a0In his last three starts<\/a> for Harrisburg he was alternatively lit up or highly ineffective (considering his pedigree and who he was pitching against). \u00a0Ross Detwiler<\/strong> has clearly grasped the #5 starter role and has a higher ERA+<\/a> than both Edwin Jackson<\/strong> and Gio Gonzalez<\/strong> for the season (hard to imagine, but Gio’s last 8-10 starts<\/a> have really knocked his seasonal numbers down, even given last night’s CG and his excellent 7ip, 2H performance against the woeful Mets two weeks ago). \u00a0 If\/When Stephen Strasburg<\/strong> gets shut down (which honestly at this point I cannot believe will actually happen, given Mike Rizzo<\/strong>‘s cryptic statements about Strasburg having to pass an “eye-test” and backing away from any specific quantitiative innings limit), John Lannan<\/strong> has had two shots to prove he belongs and completely earned whatever work he will get. \u00a0Unless someone goes down with injury, Wang now sits easily as 7th on the starter depth chart and perhaps even further down, given Yunesky Maya<\/strong>‘s recent string of decent-to-excellent starts<\/a> in Syracuse.<\/p>\n

The Wang experiment was a worthy one, and certainly I supported his re-signing and the continued payment on the hope that Wang would return to his 19-win Yankees glory. \u00a0Maybe he’ll get a few more innings in September, as the team fights its way for a divisional title. \u00a0But you have to think he’ll be looking for work in another organization in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chien-Ming Wang‘s latest (and last) rehab start in Harrisburg ended with him “complaining of soreness in his right hip” and being pulled after the latest of his ineffective starts for AA Harrisburg. This has to be the least surprising bit of news related to Wang’s injury and rehab assignment imaginable. Do you mean to tell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[37,253,385,881,39,129,51,38,883],"class_list":["post-4352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlbpitching","tag-chien-ming-wang","tag-edwin-jackson","tag-gio-gonzalez","tag-jeff-saffelle","tag-john-lannan","tag-mike-rizzo","tag-ross-detwiler","tag-stephen-strasburg","tag-yunesky-maya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4352"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4416,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4352\/revisions\/4416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}