• Andy Pettitte begged the Yankees to keep pitching through his shoulder fatigue -- though it appears he's going to make almost all his incentives and more than double his $5.5 million salary, anyway. Yankees people realize they need Pettitte in the playoffs.
• While Jorge Posada's feistiness generally makes him a beloved figure around the Yankees, club personnel were not pleased Posada ignited a brawl with the Blue Jays. As Toronto manager Cito Gaston pointed out, the Yankees were the ones with something to lose. The Yankees didn't fight Posada's three-game suspension (perhaps they knew he got a break).
• The Yankees think they may have detected the flaw in Joba Chamberlain's delivery that's caused him to be so mediocre lately. Pitching coach Dave Eiland is said to have noticed something was awry.
As for the Posada thing, people need to get over it. You can't ask a guy to be the emotional leader of the team 99% of the time and not expect that at some point he may want to knock someone out. Was it smart? No. But nobody got hurt, so let's move on.
Regarding Pettitte, him wanting to pitch through this "injury" doesn't surprise me at all. He's always been that kind of player. And I don't for one second believe it has anything to do with the incentives in his contract. Besides the fact that he's likely to reach them anyway, I think the only incentive he's worried about right now is winning a world championship.
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I believe it was more correct his mechanicaly flaw which is why his fastball command was so bad.
That could definitely be it.
Let's hope so.
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