Mitre Returned to Yankees

[Yeti73]

Interesting little week for Sergio. Meat Tray was decent and filled a roll. We really need an innings eater now with Dillard clearly not being the answer and Estrada worked heavily.

 

http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/yankees/post/_/id/18918/mitre-is-a-yankee-again

[DocLuna7]

Did anyone see a dollar amount from the Yankees for Mitre?

[PrinceEatMeat]

I think McClendon should be recalled to replace Dillard or Estrada. He has pitched well in his little time here, and in AAA.

[Nottso]

I'd like to see Estrada go down to get stretched out for starting again. He seems to be a much better starter than he is a reliever.

[monty57]

I agree Nottso. Even if he was doing better in relief, I'd still want to see Estrada in the AAA rotation. He's our most viable option as an injury replacement SP this season, and we voluntarily eliminated him from that role by making him a reliever. I haven't been too comfortable knowing that Narron or de la Cruz could be in the Milwaukee rotation. We've just gotten lucky that no starters have been significantly injured since Estrada was made a reliever.

 

As for Mitre, it was an odd move, when we could easily have sent Estrada or Dillard back to AAA and we wouldn't have had to lose a pitcher. Even if Mitre's not that good, we don't have a lot of "MLB ready" pitchers, and we just gave one away unnecessarily.

[pebadger]

The best stretch the pen had this year was when McClendon and Mitre were pitching well enough in their roles. Neither is with the big club any longer. In the meantime, the organization has screwed around with Estrada (starter), DiFelice (?), Hererra (disaster), Dillard (no defined role) and really gotten nothing out of it. Braddock hasn't done much either.

 

This isn't to say that McClendon and Mitre are really good, or even kinda good. I'm not saying you want those guys pitching oftern, or even ever, in high leverage situations. But the way bullpens work in today's MLB I'd rather have guys who are good in a given role than perhaps marginally more talented guys who are mismatched with their position. Of course you'd rather have a pen full of big power arms, but nobody has that and if a team did it would most certainly not be Milwaukee.

 

As good as the starting pitching has been you'd think this shouldn't be that hard, but the baseball operation from the GM down to the manager seems to have messed it up a lot worse than need be. They've been in a position of waiting for guys to get back, but they really haven't had to scramble because guys have gotten hurt in-season. It seems like they have just been making changes to make changes with some of these spots. It certainly doesn't seem like there has been much of a commitment to any sort of plan. Just waiting for Saito to come back isn't a plan.

[Funketown]

Interesting little week for Sergio. Meat Tray was decent and filled a roll.

http://www.mrsmartys.com/home/images/stories/food/MrsMartys-MeatTray.jpg

 

Let me just say I will not be "relishing" in the decision to let go of the tray.

[Oxy]

Meat Tray was decent and filled a roll.[/url]

It wasn't a hard roll though. His bread and butter was as an innings eater, but he got into far too many pickles.