washingtonpost.com 2010年的文章:
Nationals Manager Jim Riggleman regrets Kerry Wood's workload in rookie season
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VIERA, FLA. -- In 1998, his rookie season, Chicago Cubs phenom Kerry Wood
started 26 games, throwing 2,840 pitches and striking out 233 batters. Nine
times he threw more than 120 pitches in a game. For perspective, the
Washington Nationals had one game last season in which their starter threw
more than 120 pitches.

Jim Riggleman, now the manager in Washington, happened to manage the
Cubs in 1998. On Sunday, he compared his latest phenom, Stephen Strasburg,
to Wood, acknowledging that "there are a lot of similarities. Very similar
talents."

But Riggleman also admitted regret about his handling of Wood, who started
his rookie season as a 20-year-old. True, the Cubs were in a pennant race,
and regard league-wide for pitch limits didn't match the current adherence.
But Riggleman offered no excuses.

"I think if anything that I learned from it, having to do it over I probably would
have pitched Kerry less," Riggleman said. "At the time that we had Kerry, my
recollection of any criticism I had was 'Why did you take him out of the
game?' After the fact it's 'Well, you pitched him too much.' "