Something else for you folks to ponder. Clueless Joe has no idea what he's doping with the pitching staff!!! He "protects" his starters by limiting them to about 100 pitches. In the meantime, he has the relievers warming up whenever the opposition gets a couple of men on base. He then overuses the relievers daily.
This sets up a scenario whereby at the end of the season, his starters are reasonably well rested to pitch six or seven innings, but his relievers are completely worn out. Torre destroyed Tanyon Sturtze, and now he's doing the same thing to Scott Proctor. (By the way, Proctor was a starting pitcher, but clueless Joe was afraid to give him a chance.) Aaron Small did his best last season as a starter, not reliever, but Joe keeps using him as his long reliever. I will admit that this is not as dumb as Willie Randolph refusing to use Aaron Heilman as a starter. Willie has learned from Torre how to destroy a pitching staff, and to never trust young pitchers, unless he is forced to do so by management.
In the meantime Mariano Rivera is not the pitcher that he once was. Yes, he still has enough to go out there and save games, but he is no longer the dominant closer. Both age and overuse have seen to that.
Thank goodness that Chen Ming Wang has lousy English, and he has no idea what Torre and his boys are talking about.
Now who in the overpaid Yankee organization can help out a fading Randy Johnson???