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Mussina goes out on his terms

By john • Nov 21st, 2008 • Category: major leagues, mike mussina, retirement, top story

“I never got a chance to win a world championship. I never got a chance to win a Cy Young Award. On the last day of my career I finally won 20 games. There’s some nice things I’ve been able to do. I think I’ve done as much as I’m capable of doing at the [...]



Girardi expects Mussina to retire

By john • Nov 8th, 2008 • Category: major leagues, mike mussina, new york yankees

While Mike Mussina hasn’t told the Yankees whether he will retire or be back for one more season manager Joe Girardi revealed Friday that the 39-year-old pitcher told him he was probably going to retire at the end of last season.
Mussina recently was selected for his seventh Gold Glove and finished the 2008 season with [...]



Mussina has no timetable for decision

By john • Nov 4th, 2008 • Category: major leagues, mike mussina, top story

Mike Mussina’s decision on whether or not to retire has no timetable according to agent Arn Tellem.
Mussina reached 20 wins in a season for the first time in his 18 year career last season. Mussina reached 200 innings for the first time since 2002 and posted his lowest ERA in a season since 2001.
At 20-9 [...]



Moose remains on the loose

By john • Aug 3rd, 2008 • Category: major leagues, mike mussina, new york yankees, top story

Mike Mussina picked up his 14th win of the season Saturday defeating the Los Angeles Angels. Mussina allowed just one run over seven innings allowing two hits, striking out five and walking two.
For the Angels the loss ended a five game win streak, for Mussina the win was the 264th of his career.
This season has [...]



Is it the noose for the Moose?

By john • Apr 28th, 2008 • Category: baltimore orioles, mike mussina, new york yankees

I turned on the broadcast of the Yankees and Indians game to see that Mike Mussina was pitching out of trouble in the bottom of the fifth inning. Mussina was already over 80 pitches but did manage to escape the inning allowing just two runs despite having the bases loaded with no outs at one [...]



Mike “Moose” Mussina

By john • Mar 1st, 2008 • Category: baltimore orioles, mike mussina, new york yankees

After being taken in the first round of the 1990 amatuer draft Mussina was assigned to Dobule-A Hagerstown working 4 scoreless innings in his debut. In total hehad 11 starts that season he allowed more then 2 runs only once.
The following season Mussina was promoted to the big league roster at the end of July [...]



Glavine, Ankiel, Thompson, Mussina, Stewart, and Harikkala

By john • Aug 11th, 2007 • Category: ian stewart, mike mussina, rick ankiel, sean thompson, tim harikkala, tom glavine

Congratulations are due for Tom Glavive who won his 300th game on August 5th. Of course that brought about the whole “will this be the last guy to win 300?” I’m sure someone will do it. After all you don’t need to win 30 games a season to do it. If you can win [...]