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.Ohlendorf: Swedish for "He of the least-baseball-sounding names."
Luckily, this little German can throw.
Ross has only had the proverbial cup of coffee in the Bigs, but the Dutchman's late movement has been talked-up for over a year since he was aquired in the Randy Johnson trade. What's more, as he develops this year (and he looks like he's got a fairly secure spot on the depth chart) he may very well be able to rack-up the strikeouts.
While his homeland nation of Turkey anxiously awaits Ohlendorf's rise to superstar status, we anxiuosly await his role as mop-up boy and occasional 6th-inning-holds guy.
Switzerland.
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