Decision on Wang could come Thursday - 棒球

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Decision on Wang could come Thursday

Hughes just had a great first inning, which he needed. A decision could
be coming tomorrow on Wang; perhaps the Yankees didn't want to make an
announcement prior to Hughes' start. Girardi says they see Hughes as a
starter, which would seem to suggest he'll go back to AAA, not to the
bullpen, when Wang is activated. (Cone mentioned on the broadcast Monday
that he could see Hughes as a reliever.)

Girardi says they'll slot Wang in as soon as he's ready. The question is,
is he ready? The velocity and sinker aren't where they need to be,
apparently because of lingering issues from the lisfranc injury last June.

Lisfrancs are tricky injuries. Bruney, like Wang, declined to have
surgery and is fine. Michael Strahan and Justin Tuck both lost part of
the 2006 Giants football season to lisfranc sprains; Tuck had surgery,
Strahan did not. (Strahan said if he had required surgery, he would have
retired. He's awfully glad he didn't.) Tuck wound up limping through the
end of last season with bone spurs in his foot, which he said were a result
of the lisfranc two years earlier.

Anyway, Wang's leg strength was a problem while he was giving up a million
runs a start. But part of this just has to be the mental hurdle of getting
over such an injury, trusting your right (push-off) foot and relearning
to pitch without favoring the formerly injured part of your body. The way
the Yankees are playing these days, you would think time is one their side
when it comes to making sure Wang is right before bringing him back.

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