Roger Clemens announced at today's Yankees game vs the Seattle Mariners that he will indeed be coming back to pitch for the New York Yankees this season. He is expected to take a few weeks getting in shape and could be pitching for the Yankees by June.

The Yankees pitching has been awful thus far this year but now with Clemens coming back and Chien Ming-Mang's recent near perfect game things are starting to look up for the Yanks. Factor in Phil Hughes promising debut (and assuming he comes back this year 100% healthy from his untimely injury) and the Yankees could have a very good rotation in place for the stretch run and the playoffs. Quite a turn of events from just recently when Andy Pettitte seemed to be the only pitcher they could count on.

The Yankees also got an excellent day from today's starting pitcher Darrel Rasner who threw 5 1/3 scoreless innings for his first win of the season. He now has a 2.75 ERA for the year. The Yanks won the game 5 to 0.

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