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What is going on here...........Isn't this what you play for at the beginning of every season not to mention as a kid.............i just don't understand it....I know both are on the older side but to abandon your teamates......shaking my head......any clues here as to what's going on.....and who's next to drop out....
SHEEEEEEEEEEEESH......
Blue Jays' Mark Buehrle fails to reach 200 innings; retirement next?
Even though Blue Jays veteran lefty Mark Buehrle started on Friday, manager John Gibbons gave him the nod to start against the Rays on Sunday. Why? Buehrle entered Sunday at 198 innings for the year, so he's two frames short of reaching 200-plus innings for the 15th consecutive season. Thus the motivation for sending him out to face the Rays on short rest.
Well, things didn't go as planned (TOR-TB GameTracker) ...
Buehrle pretty obviously didn't have it (unearned nature of those runs notwithstanding), as he lasted just 2/3 of an inning and thus fell short of the two frames he needed.
So will this be the last time we see Buehrle on a big-league mound? Here's this pre-game tweet from Bruce Levine of 670 The Score in Chicago:
In this, his age-36 season, Buehrle has pitched to a respectable 3.82 ERA/103 ERA+ in 31 starts, and he leads the majors with four complete games. He's in the final year of the contract that he signed with the Marlins prior to the 2012 season.
The Jays won't need more than four starters in the postseason, and maybe they're better served by going with a playoff rotation of David Price, Marcus Stroman, Marco Estrada, and R.A. Dickey rather than with one that includes Buehrle.
In either case, Buehrle entered his Sunday assignment with 214 wins, a career ERA of 3.81 (116 ERA+) and 95th all-time in innings and 50th all-time in starts. Buehrle probably lacks the peak necessary for the Hall of Fame, but he'll have his supporters. It's been an oustanding career, if this is indeed the end.
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Sabathia to check into alcohol rehab
October 5, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia is checking into an alcohol rehabilitation center and will miss the postseason.
The team issued a statement from the pitcher Monday, a day before New York plays Houston in the AL wild-card game. Sabathia, the 2007 AL Young Award winner, said he took the step to receive the care he needs and become the kind of person ''I can be proud of.''
''I love baseball and I love my teammates like brothers, and I am also fully aware that I am leaving at a time when we should all be coming together for one last push toward the World Series,'' he said. ''It hurts me deeply to do this now, but I owe it to myself and to my family to get myself right. I want to take control of my disease, and I want to be a better man, father and player.''
Sabathia was 6-10 with a 4.73 ERA this year, slowed by his surgically repaired right knee. After returning from the disabled list and using a tighter brace, the portly 35-year-old left-hander was 2-1 with a 2.17 ERA in five starts and got the win against Boston that week that clinched the Yankees' return to the postseason following a rare two-year absence,
''As difficult as this decision is to share publicly, I don't want to run and hide,'' Sabathia said. ''Being an adult means being accountable. Being a baseball player means that others look up to you. I want my kids - and others who may have become fans of mine over the years - to know that I am not too big of a man to ask for help. I want to hold my head up high, have a full heart and be the type of person again that I can be proud of. And that's exactly what I am going to do.''
His move is another blow to the Yankees' pitching staff, slowed in September by Masahiro Tanaka's hamstring injury and ineffective outings by Michael Pineda and Ivan Nova.
Sabathia, who helped New York win the 2009 World Series during his first season in the Bronx, is signed through next season. His deal includes a 2017 club option that would become guaranteed if his left shoulder doesn't get hurt.
''I am looking forward to being out on the field with my team next season playing the game that brings me so much happiness,'' Sabathia said.
SHEEEEEEEEEEEESH......
Blue Jays' Mark Buehrle fails to reach 200 innings; retirement next?
Even though Blue Jays veteran lefty Mark Buehrle started on Friday, manager John Gibbons gave him the nod to start against the Rays on Sunday. Why? Buehrle entered Sunday at 198 innings for the year, so he's two frames short of reaching 200-plus innings for the 15th consecutive season. Thus the motivation for sending him out to face the Rays on short rest.
Well, things didn't go as planned (TOR-TB GameTracker) ...
Buehrle pretty obviously didn't have it (unearned nature of those runs notwithstanding), as he lasted just 2/3 of an inning and thus fell short of the two frames he needed.
So will this be the last time we see Buehrle on a big-league mound? Here's this pre-game tweet from Bruce Levine of 670 The Score in Chicago:
In this, his age-36 season, Buehrle has pitched to a respectable 3.82 ERA/103 ERA+ in 31 starts, and he leads the majors with four complete games. He's in the final year of the contract that he signed with the Marlins prior to the 2012 season.
The Jays won't need more than four starters in the postseason, and maybe they're better served by going with a playoff rotation of David Price, Marcus Stroman, Marco Estrada, and R.A. Dickey rather than with one that includes Buehrle.
In either case, Buehrle entered his Sunday assignment with 214 wins, a career ERA of 3.81 (116 ERA+) and 95th all-time in innings and 50th all-time in starts. Buehrle probably lacks the peak necessary for the Hall of Fame, but he'll have his supporters. It's been an oustanding career, if this is indeed the end.
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Sabathia to check into alcohol rehab
October 5, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia is checking into an alcohol rehabilitation center and will miss the postseason.
The team issued a statement from the pitcher Monday, a day before New York plays Houston in the AL wild-card game. Sabathia, the 2007 AL Young Award winner, said he took the step to receive the care he needs and become the kind of person ''I can be proud of.''
''I love baseball and I love my teammates like brothers, and I am also fully aware that I am leaving at a time when we should all be coming together for one last push toward the World Series,'' he said. ''It hurts me deeply to do this now, but I owe it to myself and to my family to get myself right. I want to take control of my disease, and I want to be a better man, father and player.''
Sabathia was 6-10 with a 4.73 ERA this year, slowed by his surgically repaired right knee. After returning from the disabled list and using a tighter brace, the portly 35-year-old left-hander was 2-1 with a 2.17 ERA in five starts and got the win against Boston that week that clinched the Yankees' return to the postseason following a rare two-year absence,
''As difficult as this decision is to share publicly, I don't want to run and hide,'' Sabathia said. ''Being an adult means being accountable. Being a baseball player means that others look up to you. I want my kids - and others who may have become fans of mine over the years - to know that I am not too big of a man to ask for help. I want to hold my head up high, have a full heart and be the type of person again that I can be proud of. And that's exactly what I am going to do.''
His move is another blow to the Yankees' pitching staff, slowed in September by Masahiro Tanaka's hamstring injury and ineffective outings by Michael Pineda and Ivan Nova.
Sabathia, who helped New York win the 2009 World Series during his first season in the Bronx, is signed through next season. His deal includes a 2017 club option that would become guaranteed if his left shoulder doesn't get hurt.
''I am looking forward to being out on the field with my team next season playing the game that brings me so much happiness,'' Sabathia said.
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