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Moose Call Sad!
Moose Call Sad!
By Frank Solares
Mike Mussina’s retirement was harder for some of us to handle then others. All my friends know that Mussina is one of my favorite players of all time. His departure will hurt the Yankees and now they need to fill his 20 wins with one of the big three free agents left on the market.
The Moose will leave after 19 years of Hall worthy credentials and his resume ranks up with baseball greatest pitchers of all time. Check out http://mussinahof.com this fan site is one of the best blogs on the web.
He had 17 seasons of 10 wins or more, his winning percentage is amazing winning 270 games while only having 153 losses ranking him 33rd all time.
His 2813 strikeouts ranks him 19th all time only Bert Blyleven is not a Hall of Fame player. (He should be)
A 5 time All Star 92,93,94,97,99 and a 7 time gold glove winner 96,97,98,99,2001, 2003.
Like him or not (Michael Kay) he pitched in the incredible steroid accused era and no one would link him to any of that garbage talk. He had great pitching years all while hitters were getting 50, 60, 70 homeruns a year.
As a Mussina fan I will miss his class, his valor, his master like pitching technique and his fire. Every time an all time great retires, a part of baseball greatness comes to an end. Not that many pitchers left in the game that warrant the argument of having his name associated to the Hall of Fame.
Just the conversation of his name being linked to the greatest of the game should merit a Hall of Fame appearance!
Last Old Timers Day makes for a good day.
Mike Mussina stopped the losing streak, on a day that the Yankees celebrated the last Old Timers Day at the current Yankee Stadium.
On one side the best team in Baseball with a combined record 69-40, a team that has a 12-2 record since the All Star game and coming off a one to nothing victory over the third place Yankees, while dominating the league.
On the other side you had a team that was over matched by a very bad Orioles team and embarrassed by the best team in Baseball the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Disneyland, Orange County, California.
No one expected the Yankees to get embarrassed on the day that you had 70 legends and former Yankee players on Old Timers day. Yet even the most optimistic fan would have expected another loss.
Through all of this Mussina looked great and other than a bad inning in which Betemit made an error on a double play.
His line looked great a two hitter while pitching 7 strong.
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IP |
H |
R |
ER |
BB |
SO |
HR |
ERA |
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7.0 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
5 |
0 |
3.44 |
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Mike is 6 victories away from winning his 20th victory for the first time in his Career.
Twice he has won nineteen in his career and he has won 17 & 18 games twice in one year. Number twenty would be sweet for the man that has won 264 career victories.
Mussina is not looking ahead he is just taking one game at the time.
This year Mike has been the Yankees best starter and most reliable pitcher. He is playing for a contract at this point not resigning him looks like mistake, he can help the young pitching staff.
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