Quick and dirty, here’s his release points from tonight (thanks to Brooks Baseball as always for the easy to grab Pitch f/x info). Compare to his last start. It moved a little bit horizontally and down just a tad. It seems to very slowly be getting back to where it was vertically Pre May 2008 …
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In last night’s game I’d rather not talk about (but will later on anyway), Chien-Ming Wang came up in pseudo mop-up duty. Since we already know that his release point changed at around the time he became less effective, I figured I’d take a look at it using the Brooks Baseball Pitch F/X tool. And …
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After the last disaster of a start the Yankees got from Chien-Ming Wang, Dave Eiland said that he thought Wang’s sinker was better than it had been in his first two starts. Using the Pitch F/X tool provided by Brooks Baseball it’s pretty easy to check out how it was behaving for each start. So, …
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Well, I was honestly mystified by the decision to bring up from AAA Anthony Claggett of all people. He is honestly, not very good, as I assume anyone who watched the game noticed. Anyway, for the third straight game Chien-Ming Wang was awful. He looked pretty good in the first, not great, but okay. Then …
Chien-Ming Wang takes the mound in a few hours for his third start of the season. In case you can’t recall, his first two have been simply atrocious and it seems something is mechanically wrong with him. You can tell just from his release points something funky is going on when he’s delivering the ball. …
Well, everything went wrong last night but here’s a quick overview in easy to digest bullet-point format. The most important thing is that Chien-Ming Wang still looked uncomfortable on the mound and not used to pitching. He didn’t have his best stuff, he couldn’t locate anything. In other words, he was really bad. Something is …
I am really fond of Chien-Ming Wang, as I think most Yankees fans who are not insane generally are. He’s the first starting pitcher the Yankees system has produced that has stayed with them since Andy Pettitte and he puzzles projection systems because he doesn’t strike out a lot of people (but he has very …
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For various reasons (WBC, faulty hips) a lot of the starting lineup is missing, but there’s still pitchers to watch. Hideki Matsui is starting to get his time in, and will probably play again tomorrow for his first back-to-back games this year. Chien-Ming Wang – 3IP, 3H, 1R, 1HR, 0BB, 2K, 5GO, 2AO Today marked …
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Today’s game wasn’t televised so I have no astute observations about how anyone looked outside of the pitching lines: Chien-Ming Wang – 2.0IP, 2H, 0R, 0HR, 0BB, 0K, 2GO, 4AO I really do not like that GO: AO ratio, but I’m not going to worry about it yet. Brett Tomko – 2.0IP, 1H, 1R, 1HR, …
Just saw this on East Windup Chronicle. It’s pretty suave: The character is his name.