NEW YORK -- The New York Yankees, hobbled in the early season by a string of injuries to the pitching staff, have dismissed their conditioning coach, according to media reports Wednesday in New York. http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2858274 Miller, 34, was unpopular with some players, and several had opted out of his program, which de-emphasized running as a way to build leg strength and abandoned certain stretching exercises used by his predecessor. Well, DUH.....Cashman should be fired for this alone. He hired this bum.
The trainer probably deserved to be fired because the senior players were not buying into his program, BUT, to see a pitcher go out there and pitch six no-hit innings, and then he pulls a hamstring in the SEVENTH inning; to put that on the trainer seems quite a stretch, no pun intended. Seems like the underlings are going to start taking the hits to save senior management.
They should have realized there was a problem after Wang and Matsui went down early with hamstrings and addressed it then. It just isn't that common in baseball of all things.
Hamstrings are funny. Remember two years ago when Jose Reyes could not stay on the field for a whole year, they even changed his running style. They made him look like a turkey running around the bases.
I never saw a pitcher pull a hamstring in the late innings. How could his hamstrings not be fully stretched out by the seventh inning? And we are talking about a 20 year old stud. Very strange.
scapegoat. It would be interesting to see if any of the guys who got hurt were among those who opted out of his program. As for hughes, it wasn't conditioning, just an overstride, nowhere for the foot to go without over stretching the Hamstring.
It didn't have anything to do with not being fully stretched or anything. While I don't like this guy Miller and his glad he's gone, it wasn't his fault that Hughes got hurt. Phil just took too long of a stride and pulled it.
Yes absolutely, but rather than a scapegoat, I think is more of an excuse. This guy needed to go to begin with. Players have been abandoning his program, and they've been complaining about it since spring training. Guys were out of shape coming into the season. I know the whole "these are grown men" argument, but you have to keep in mind. These grown men are getting paid millions, and are used to being told how to work out by specialists hired just for this purpose. This guy deserved to go. Not for Hughes, but he still deserved the axe.
what? all the pitchers who are or were injured was because of a hammy! WTF have you been? has the yankees ever suffered these types of injuries in most starters in one year? the answer is no, we have had excellent trainers and never really had to worry about have more than 2 starters be out because of a hammy. HAMMY. TRAINER OUT. NO MORE HAMMY PROBLEMS. WINNING MORE GAMES, BECAUSE OF MORE GAMES PITCHED BY THE STARTERS. TAKING THE DIVISION AS USUAL.
