Hawk Lands In the Bronx
On Monday, former Twins pitcher LaTroy Hawkins signed a one-year, $3.75 million dollar deal with the New York Yankees.
LaTroy Hawkins, who will be 35 for the 2008 campaign, will be one of the primary supporters for the wildly overpaid Mariano Rivera in the Yankee bullpen next summer. The Hawk has been with four teams in the four years since he’s been with the Twins; you can now make that five teams in five years.
For those of you who took the oppotunity to watch Colorado down the stretch and in the playoffs this fall, you probably noticed Hawkins has altered his delivery. Instead of a fluid, fairly standard throwing motion, he now stops mid-windup. Pausing on his driving leg, his right arm cocks at a ninety degree angle before he moves forward with his delivery. In spite of this hitch he still manages to clock his fastball from 96-98 mph.
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