Each day, "Piss and Wynegar" will present Yankees "player previews" for the coming 2008 season. In what can only be referred to as a "revelatory" strategy, we will use statistics, as well as opinion, to further our analysis. Strangely, one of the things the got me most excited this spring was when I saw that Bruney showed up lean and mean for Spring Training. As Yankee fans we must admit to ourselves – like, right now – that we need this guy. We need him to pitch the way he did in those 20 innings in 2006 or even like he did in his first 33 innings last year (where – as BP points out – he only allowed 5 extra base hits and threw to a tune of a 1.91 ERA).
One thing Bruney already has going for him, though, is that Joe Torre is out west abusing Scott Proctor. Hopefully, our new Joe won’t be as quick to throw relievers into his doghouse…especially since the legal team of Farnsworth, Hawkins, and Ramirez don’t seem to have the upside of young Brian.
That's all there really is to say about Brian. Although I think I once read that he used to work on a crab boat. So that's something. There must be a nickname in there somewhere, right?
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