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**Kitty** · 04-12-2007, 11:38 AM

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Mike Mussina became their latest injury casualty, leaving the game in the third inning with a strained left hamstring.

The Yankees are planning to wait few days to see how Mussina responds before deciding on whether to put him on the disabled list. Mussina and Joe Torre expressed guarded optimism that he would miss only one start.
Mussina was rolling along in the third, going toe-to-toe with Minnesota's Ramon Ortiz (2-0) in a classic pitchers' duel. After the first two Twins singled in the inning, Mussina threw a 1-1 pitch to Luis Castillo and signaled to the Yankees' dugout.

Pitching coach Ron Guidry walked to the mound, and after conferring with Mussina for just a few seconds, he summoned Joe Torre and trainer Gene Monahan to join them. Less than a minute later, Mussina and Monahan walked slowly toward the dugout.

Mussina first felt discomfort while facing the first batter of the inning. "I didn't know how bad it was so I threw a couple of more," he said. "It grabbed at me again, so before I ruined the good part of a month, I got out of there."

Mussina is the sixth Yankees player to strain or pull a muscle this year, joining Bobby Abreu (oblique), Chien-Ming Wang (hamstring), Andy Pettitte (back), Johnny Damon (calf) and Hideki Matsui (hamstring).

Hamstring hurts and so does loss - Yankees - NY Daily News

stejay · 04-12-2007, 02:38 PM

It must be a curse

**Kitty** · 04-12-2007, 04:49 PM

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Originally Posted by stejay

It must be a curse

I read that they got rid of some of the trainers, don't quote me on it though. If that's the case, these current trainers should be fired. Everyone in that pitching rotation is dropping like flies, with some of the same type of injury.

BayAreaYankeeFan · 04-13-2007, 12:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Kitty

I read that they got rid of some of the trainers, don't quote me on it though. If that's the case, these current trainers should be fired. Everyone in that pitching rotation is dropping like flies, with some of the same type of injury.

This is way too early in the season to be pressing the panic button. We forget that NY isnt sunny Florida. These type of injuries aren't uncommon early in the season. We're just getting started.

stejay · 04-13-2007, 04:11 AM

Yes, but if this is what they are like fresh after their break, what are they going to be like at the end of the season when they are tired. That could be intresting.

**Kitty** · 04-13-2007, 11:33 AM

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Originally Posted by BayAreaYankeeFan

This is way too early in the season to be pressing the panic button. We forget that NY isnt sunny Florida. These type of injuries aren't uncommon early in the season. We're just getting started.

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The Yankees instituted a new fitness program for their players this year, looking to enhance their performance on the field.

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Instead, some wonder whether it has contributed to keeping several of the Bombers' biggest stars off the field, as a rash of injuries has hit the Yankees during the early weeks of the season.

Over the winter, Cashman got rid of Jeff Mangold, the Yanks' strength and conditioning coach for the previous nine seasons, and hired Marty Miller, who served as a minor league trainer for the Expos from 1995-97, to serve in the newly created position of director of performance enhancement.

Miller had not worked in baseball since leaving the Expos, spending the past nine years as the director of fitness at the Ballen Isles Country Club in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. He has a master's degree from California University of Pennsylvania in performance enhancement and injury prevention.
"Marty isn't a baseball guy like Mangold was," said one player, speaking on the condition of anonymity. "Marty has been given a lot of pull, and I think he's a little too gung-ho right now."

Cashman also hired Dana Cavalea, 24, to be the new assistant director of performance enhancement. Cavalea had served as a strength and conditioning coach under Mangold during spring training since 2003, but is now a member of the full-time staff.

During the first day of workouts with pitchers and catchers, the pair's pre-workout stretching program did not include any stretching exercises for the players' arms.

"Right off the bat, (Miller has) got a bad rap," said the player, who also called the team's current pregame stretch routine inadequate. "Pitchers and catchers out there not stretching their arms? Their thing is that the active stretch gets everything stretched out, but that's garbage."

According to a team source, Pettitte was encouraged by either Miller or Cavalea to ditch the weight belt he usually wears while doing his routine squats, saying it would help him strengthen his stomach during the exercises. Pettitte injured his back while doing the squats, costing him 10days in spring training.

New hires under fire for injuries - Yankees - NY Daily News
Yep, I guess I'm not the only one that has reasons for concerns, this is coming right out of the players mouths.

stejay · 04-13-2007, 02:05 PM

Intresting

BayAreaYankeeFan · 04-14-2007, 03:29 PM

LOL, a source close to a player said this, a player not named said that. Do you honestly believe everything you read in the paper? The majority of the crap being written in papers just isn't true. Especially stuff that has no named sources. I don't believe much of what is written.

The Yankees are hardly the only team with health concerns. Injuries are up by 30 percent across the major leagues compared with the last four years....

Until someone is fired, which hasn't been the case I don't believe any of it. Pavano has been bitten by the injury bug a few times so it's expected. Did it dawn on you that Andy's, Moose's and Damon's injury could all be attributed to bad weather and not incompetent trainers? It snowed during a Yankee home game. The next day Damon goes down and a few days later Mussina pulls a hammy. Wang injured himself just jogging...

**Kitty** · 04-14-2007, 06:30 PM

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Originally Posted by BayAreaYankeeFan

LOL, a source close to a player said this, a player not named said that. Do you honestly believe everything you read in the paper? The majority of the crap being written in papers just isn't true. Especially stuff that has no named sources. I don't believe much of what is written.

The Yankees are hardly the only team with health concerns. Injuries are up by 30 percent across the major leagues compared with the last four years....

Until someone is fired, which hasn't been the case I don't believe any of it. Pavano has been bitten by the injury bug a few times so it's expected. Did it dawn on you that Andy's, Moose's and Damon's injury could all be attributed to bad weather and not incompetent trainers? It snowed during a Yankee home game. The next day Damon goes down and a few days later Mussina pulls a hammy. Wang injured himself just jogging...

Most players in sports especially in NY usually don't have their names printed because they aren't suppose to say anything negative to the press to begin with and since we are talking about the Yankees..it's pretty obvious that they really don't want George to know they spoke to the press about this. All in all it is no coincidence that they are receiving relatively the same injuries..since they hired these new trainers.

**Kitty** · 05-02-2007, 05:25 PM

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Originally Posted by BayAreaYankeeFan

LOL, a source close to a player said this, a player not named said that. Do you honestly believe everything you read in the paper? The majority of the crap being written in papers just isn't true. Especially stuff that has no named sources. I don't believe much of what is written.

The Yankees are hardly the only team with health concerns. Injuries are up by 30 percent across the major leagues compared with the last four years....

Until someone is fired, which hasn't been the case I don't believe any of it. Pavano has been bitten by the injury bug a few times so it's expected. Did it dawn on you that Andy's, Moose's and Damon's injury could all be attributed to bad weather and not incompetent trainers? It snowed during a Yankee home game. The next day Damon goes down and a few days later Mussina pulls a hammy. Wang injured himself just jogging...

LOL guess you're wrong, Cashman fired the conditioning coach.