I beat the Wang double entendres to death last night on Twitter and this morning in ATH so I won’t do that anymore. But I will note, with some degree of sadness, that the Blue Jays designated Chien-Ming Wang for assignment after last night’s disaster start against the Tigers.
Wang was staked to a 4-0 lead in the first inning but couldn’t escape the second after allowing six runs on eight hits and a walk. That matched the length of his previous outing -- he gave up seven runs in an inning and a third to the Red Sox last week -- and constituted his third awful game in five starts since being called up by the Jays. That’s just not sustainable, so bye-bye Wang.
It’ll be interesting to see if he latches on anyplace else. He hasn’t had a full season worth of starts since 2007. He was moderately useful in a handful of starts in 2011. Otherwise it has been a disaster of injury and poor pitching, rendering his days as a budding ace -- he won 19 games in back-to-back seasons once upon a time -- a distant memory.
But he is a name. And sometimes names get more chances than their baseball abilities truly warrant. So we’ll see.
