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Roger Clemens is on the comeback trail… sort of. The seven-time Cy Young award winner, who turned 50 years old on August 4, has signed with the Sugar Land Skeeters of the independent Atlantic League, and is expected to start for them on Saturday against the Bridgeport Bluefish. Clemens, who last pitched in the majors with the Yankees in 2007, has apparently been discussing plans for a return with Skeeters manager (and former major leaguer) Gary Gaetti for months. When he worked out for the Texas-based team on Monday, his fastball was clocked at 87 MPH, according to agent Randy Hendricks.
This is hardly Clemens’ first comeback. Indeed, he’s something of baseball’s answer to Brett Favre, an all-time great who can’t quite bring himself to walk away from the game at which he excelled, and who seems to live for the attention produced by yet another comeback despite diminishing returns. Throughout the 2003 season in which he won 17 games and helped the Yankees reach the World Series, Clemens repeatedly insisted he would retire, only to change his mind and sign with the Astros in the offseason. After leading the NL with a 1.87 ERA on Houston’s pennant-winning 2005 team, Clemens essentially implied that he was retiring at the ripe old age of 43 by not pursuing another contract.
http://mlb.si.com/2012/08/20/roger-clemens-comeback-sugar-land-skeeters/?hpt=hp_t3
This is hardly Clemens’ first comeback. Indeed, he’s something of baseball’s answer to Brett Favre, an all-time great who can’t quite bring himself to walk away from the game at which he excelled, and who seems to live for the attention produced by yet another comeback despite diminishing returns. Throughout the 2003 season in which he won 17 games and helped the Yankees reach the World Series, Clemens repeatedly insisted he would retire, only to change his mind and sign with the Astros in the offseason. After leading the NL with a 1.87 ERA on Houston’s pennant-winning 2005 team, Clemens essentially implied that he was retiring at the ripe old age of 43 by not pursuing another contract.
http://mlb.si.com/2012/08/20/roger-clemens-comeback-sugar-land-skeeters/?hpt=hp_t3
