[新聞] After Winning 20, Retirement Is Temp …
看來Moose話中的意思, 可能會選擇退休。除非有球隊願意給他3年約, 讓他可以拿到
300勝。他認為別人可能想法不同, 但他認為如果這樣就退休實在很酷。
September 28, 2008, 10:03 pm
After Winning 20, Retirement Is Tempting Mike Mussina
By Tyler Kepner
Tags: Bob Feller, Bob Gibson, Jim Palmer, Mike Mussina, Yankees
Mike Mussina often visits the indispensible baseballreference.com, comparing
his career to those of comparable pitchers. What he finds is that very few
pitchers finished gracefully.
Here’s a small sample:
– Jim Palmer was 0-3, 9.17 in 1984
– Bob Gibson was 3-10, 5.04 in 1975
– Bob Feller was 0-4, 4.97 in 1956
Mussina passed all of those Cooperstown greats on the career wins list this
season. And here’s how he did over all in 2008: 20-9, 3.37.
Listening to Mussina this weekend, and talking with him all season, I believe
he will retire. I think Mussina’s head guides his heart, and his head has
spelled out a lot of rational reasons to retire.
He’ll be 40 in December, and he has 270 wins. If he is healthy for one more
season, he’ll probably exceed 280. At that point, he said, there would be no
turning back. He’d have to get 300, and that would mean pitching in 2010 and
2011, too.
“If I’m in for one, I’m in for three,” Mussina said. “That’s basically
what the decision is. Now, where? I’m not going to bounce around from one
team to another. I don’t want to do that. I’ve been lucky enough to play
for two teams for 18 seasons, and I’m not going to bounce around to try to
scratch something out that still may never happen.”
For Mussina, there seems to be a strong appeal in going out on his terms, as
a 20-game winner, and spending the rest of his life in his beloved home of
Montoursville, Pa. He has a wife and three children and has lived in the same
town all his life.
“Ninety-nine percent of the players do not get to make that choice for
themselves,” Mussina said. “They play the game, and somebody else tells
them that it’s time to go. I’ve been really lucky. I’m at a situation
where, if I decide enough’s enough, I get to decide for myself.”
In other words, Mussina can retire from baseball, without baseball retiring
him. That seemed to be his fate after last season, when he struggled to a
5.15 E.R.A., and even this year, when he lost three of his first four starts.
He believed he needed to win in Chicago on April 23 or lose his spot in the
rotation.
“I was worried about my spot on February 15, and for two months, it really
didn’t change that much,” Mussina said. “But since, honestly, nobody
jumped up and was in a position to take it from me, and we weren’t playing
very well as a group, Joe kept giving me the ball and things got better.”
Mussina did it by pitching inside more, by dialing down the velocity of some
off-speed pitches, and by having extraordinary luck with his health. And if
he never comes back, he will have finished with a flourish: his first 20-win
season.
“I think it’d be pretty cool,” Mussina said. “I don’t know what
everybody else thinks, but I think it’d be pretty cool.”
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