August 20, 200521 yr According to the New York Times, the Yankees are interested in signing Kirk Rueter to a minor league contract. Of course they are. Haha at rotoworld.
August 20, 200521 yr The yankees just keep on getting the old pitchers who arent at the top of there game anymore. Thats why there arent as good this season.
August 20, 200521 yr I dont understand why they would. The Yankees already have a glut of starting pitching. 1. Mike Mussina 2. Randy Johnson 3. Sea Level Chacon (Look at his numbers as a Yankee) 4. Jaret Wright 5. Bi Gal Leiter 6. Aaron Small (Look at his numbers as a Yankee) Coming back soon... 7.Tiger Wang 8.Kevin Brown Of course, the only healthy pitcher the Yankees have had all year has been Mike Mussina, so heck, why not?
August 20, 200521 yr The yankees just keep on getting the old pitchers who arent at the top of there game anymore. Thats why there arent as good this season. 908703[/snapback] What? The Yankees have been decimated by injuries, THATS WHY they aren't good anymore. The Yankees originally had this rotation: 1. Randy Johnson 2. Carl Pavano 3. Mike Mussina 4. Jaret Wright 5. Kevin Brown Johnson was coming off his best season, Pavano was coming off his best season, Moose is moose, Jaret Wright was coming off his best season and Kevin Brown sucked, but with 4 all-star caliber starters, who cares right? The Yankees were supposed to know that Brown, Wright, Pavs and RJ were all going to get injured? 95% of MLB fans agreed at the beginning of the year that the Yankees had, by a good margin, the best rotation in baseball. The Yankees replacements have all also gone down due to injury. Wang was the ace of the Yankee staff for a good portion of the season, and was sporting a very good 3.5 ERA when he then proceeded to go down with arm trouble. You can't expect the Yankees to protect against 5/6 of their starting pitchers getting injured. It's not the signing of scrub pitchers who are now backing up the backups, its the injuries that created the neccessity for the backups to be starters in the first place! The Yankees aren't expecting these guys to be great pitchers, they are using them as insurance policies because, the insurance policies they had, have already been cashed in. And dont get the wrong idea either, Kirk Reuter, Hideo Nomo - these guys are not going to be starting any games for the Yankees. It's just an insurance policy in case more s*** hits the fan. 200 million dollar payroll or not, no team is ever going to be able to be a great team when 5/6 of its teams starters go down with injuries.
August 20, 200521 yr It's a minor league deal. Nomo was signed to a minor league deal and that's where he still is. Doesn't mean Reuter will make it to the major league level.
August 20, 200521 yr Rueter, Nomo, and all these guys would've been a great rotation if this was the mid-1990's.
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