A Bad Sign for Christian Garcia

Christian Garcia is a 24-year-old right-handed pitcher with a mid-90’s fastball, one of the best curveball’s in the Yankees system, and a strong changeup. He’s just about proven everything in the minor leagues but the ability to stay healthy. He was expected to start last season with the Trenton Thunder with a good chance that he would have the opportunity to advance to the Scranton Yankees and even make it to the Bronx if he did well enough. Instead he dealt with a sore shoulder from the start and only managed to throw 25.1 innings all season long. The silver lining was that Garcia dominated, although he had slight control problems and his fastball was slightly slower than usual, but he still managed a 0.71 ERA. Garcia still hasn’t managed to throw at least 100 innings since 2005, but all signs were that he would finally enter the 2010 season completely healthy. Well, that dream didn’t last long. Here is an excerpt from the Journal News’ Chad ...