Yankees President Randy LevineArbitration cases can be ugly. Chien-Wing Wang and his wife Chia-Ling Wu found out the hard way, as they witnessed the Yankees Front Office tear apart Wang to “save” money. Wang, the Yankees’ best pitcher for the last two years, had the right to ask for a raise from his $489,500 salary last year. Wang asked for $4.6 million for 2008, still a great deal for an ace. However, Levine and Cashman successfully argued that he should get $4 million instead, and the judge agreed.
They said:
Wang owed a great deal of his success to the Yankees’ terrific hitting and fielding. His awful performance in the playoffs against the Indians – he was 0-2 with a 19.06 ERA – and he has been on the disabled list twice in his career.
Wang has no bad feelings, of course:
“I’ll move on from this. It’s a new season. I’m excited about that. Overall, it was a learning experience.”
I’d like to mention that Time magazine named Wang among the 100 most influential people in the world last year and when he pitches effectively, the stock market rises in Taiwan.
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cashman and levine should have been screwed by wang!
last year wang was very good, let them look at wang’s record! wang should have held out for more time and money, he’s hot! i guess wangs
lawyer isn,t a rods lawyer, hee hee!
alot of times our pitchers couldn’t get out of the early
innings and torre brought in wang
and wang pitched his baseballs and
said nothing. he is happy to help his team!