I was hoping it would be Mitre who takes Wang’s spot should he have to go to the DL. The bullpen chemistry is great right now, it would be dumb to take a key piece like Hughes or Aceves out.

And completely ignorant on how pitching works. Phil has been fantastic out of the pen. His future in the organization is clearly as a starter. He has the stuff. The most delicate part of managing a player like him is in putting him in positions to excel. So you take a guy like Hughes, set him into a MLB pen situation, and randomly start him with no time to stretch out?

There is a reason why random fans are NEVER asked to manage a team. And your suggestion is a perfect example of why. Hughes has spent that last month in the pen. That is the role he is conditioned too. Real life is not MLB The Show where a bullpen reliever can step in and throw 6+ innings.

And more importantly Hughes is more important in the pen than he could be doing 1 or 2 spot turns in the rotation.

I bet CC would pitch well in the 8th inning, maybe we should try him there.
As Yankee fans have learned over the past couple years: 70 relief innings is far more important than 200+ starting innings.
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I agree that giving Mitre the start is a joke. I understand Hughes has to work back up to 90-100 pitches but let him and Aceves split the next couple of starts until Hughes is ready to be a full-fledged starter again. I know the Yankees don’t want to jerk Hughes around but it really sounds like Wang is going to be gone for more than 1 or 2 starts. There is no reason why the Yankees should suffer through multiple starts by Sergio Mitre, a 28-year-old scrub with a 5.36 ERA in over 300 career National League innings, while not 1, but 2 better pitchers are sitting in middle relief.

Where pitchers were pitchers. Not starters, not long relievers, not middle inning guys, not lefy specialist, not setup men, not closers. The pussification of these guys saddens me. Hughes or Aceves gives the Yankees the BEST chance of winning, not Mitre. Mitre’s best contribution would be to fill in the pen for either of these two. Aceves AND Hughes have pitched well in the pen and have the arms to go the innings to get the start. These are men, not figure skaters.

bring up Mitre, start him, let him go as deep as he can (5,6,7 innings) and let Hughes relieve him for the rest of the game or till he hits his pitch limit. Then next time do the same thing, but maybe throw Hughes in to start the 6th. By the next start he should be good for 5 or 6 innings. Then you can send Mitre down and bring up a reliever or move him to the pen.
I think this would be a good system because it would allow the Yankees to stretch hughes back out without killing the pen.

The issue is stretching Hughes or Aceves out. In Wang’s next turn, both of them would only be able to throw 50-60 pitches, and as we saw with Joba last year, it probably takes 2-3 starts before they can throw 100.

Right now, in a tight race, one game out, it probably makes more sense to leave things as they are and bring Mitre up, since it doesn’t seem that Wang will be out more than a month. Now, if it turns out he’s done for the season, that would probably be the time to send Hughes or Aceves down to AAA for two weeks, let them stretch out their arms, so they can fill the #5 spot for the remainder of the season.

No one is discussing Robinson Cano’s blunder today that almost cost the Yankees the game….. bunting on a 3-0 count. Clearly Girardi was upset and Tex was puzzled. It’s either a case of miscommunication or some player just don’t respect Girardi. If I remember a couple weeks ago Melky bunted against when Joe called it off twice and Melky and Cano are close friends on the team. Any opionions???

get over yourself!

shouldn’t be starting!!!