Yankees `Panicked by Signing Clemens, Gossage Says (Update1) relief pitcher Rich Gossage said.
month to return to the Yankees. He ll make his first start when New York visits the Chicago White Sox in three days.
Red Sox in the American League East. Clemens averaged just under six innings in 19 starts last season with Houston.
``I think they panicked and I think right now, they re so far down that I don t think he s the answer, Gossage, 55, said in an interview.
``As great as he has been in the past, I don t around.
Clemens, whose 348 wins are more than any active pitcher, season when he takes the mound at U.S.
Cellular Field in Chicago.
outing this season, second fewest in the American League. Relievers Scott Proctor, with 28 games, and Brian Bruney, Mike Myers and Luis Vizcaino, all with 25, rank in the top 12 in Major League Baseball in appearances.
``They need to eat up some innings, they need some guys that can not only go five or six innings, they need some guys to finish some ballgames and really take the bull by the horns, said Gossage, whose 151 saves rank third in Yankees history. ``I Clemens played with the Yankees from 1999-2003, helping the team to a pair of World Series titles. He won his sixth American in 2001.
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