PeteAbe has an article about Krazy Kyle too, with some of the same quotes (http://tinyurl.com/37f8wm). Its has a slightly different tone.
I can't say I disagree with King's piece. AFAIK, it was Farnsworth who told Torre he couldn't pitch back-to-back days, and didn't like to come in mid-inning, because of his back, not the other way around.
I doubt anyone will ever know whether the no back-to-back games thing was Kyle's or Torre's. I do know that St. Joe was a lousy handler of RPs and his track record for guys who came from elsewhere is awful.
The post article makes it sound like he's ripping Torre a lot more than his comments do. My #1 retort to that article would be: how come so many relief pitchers that had success elsewhere did poorly here?
I'm not going to defend K.K., that's for sure. On the other hand, in the last few years I have been no huge fan of Torre either. Maybe Farnswhacker is just taking an opportunity to make excuses for himself by cheap-shotting Torre, but I sense that there also was mounting frustration by some players over some of Torre's more pronounced patterns.
Whatever the case, I am looking forward to this year--maybe al little change will do everyone some good.
As perhaps the only Farnswacker supporter around here (even if I give him the dumkoff treatment), I've often questioned how he's deployed. The Farnswacker rules (whoever came up with them) never made sense to me. Guy's built like a brick shytehouse and sure looks like he could work back-to-back days. If he was being held back against his will I could see how he'd be frustrated.
Would be great if he can get it together this year.
Fascinating to see how that Post article is angled so severely in contrast to the two articles (Daily News and MLB.com) that I linked to about Farnsworth in my game wrap last night an the Pete Abe article mentioned in 1 , all of which use the same quotes. It's a lesson on why players hate the media.
If the pitchers - young, old, starters, relievers, perform better than they did under Torre, two things are for certain: the legend of Torre will diminish, and the rap against Girardi will fade.
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I can't say I disagree with King's piece. AFAIK, it was Farnsworth who told Torre he couldn't pitch back-to-back days, and didn't like to come in mid-inning, because of his back, not the other way around.
I don't know either, but clearly, Farnswacker's a couple dozen beads short of an abacus.
The post article makes it sound like he's ripping Torre a lot more than his comments do. My #1 retort to that article would be: how come so many relief pitchers that had success elsewhere did poorly here?
Whatever the case, I am looking forward to this year--maybe al little change will do everyone some good.
Would be great if he can get it together this year.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/07/sports/baseball/07yankees.html?ref=sports
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