Saturday, May 13, 2006
Yanks Content with Bernie Williams Against Lefties
Yankees GM Brian Cashman is content with 38-year-old switchhitter Bernie Williams playing regularly against left-handed pitchers as a replacement for injured left fielder Hideki Matsui, who is out for at least three months with a broken wrist. Cashman will try to find a left-handed bat to platoon with Williams, offering marginal pitching as trade bait while trying to withhold from negotiations the club's more coveted minor league prospects.
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Doctor X -- the 'Baseball Medic' -- is an anonymous U.S. government trauma specialist with a Duke University sports medicine background and more than 20 years experience in emergency medicine. From time to time he considers MLB rumors, events and news reports as they pertain to baseball players' injuries, illnesses and various other disabilities, both on the field and off.
MLB Rumors editor Greg Fieg is a former sports news editor and award-winning writer whose bylines have appeared on the wires of the Associated Press and in numerous publications, including San Antonio Express-News, San Antonio Light, Houston Chronicle and Philadelphia Bulletin. He formerly was posted in various positions on the U.S.-Mexican border with Freedom Newspapers, and was a regular, independent contributor to United Press International.