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What should the Yankees do to help Miggy?

Miggy's hitting woes are completely in his head. That being said, he is in the worst of all possible spots to get back to being the hitter he was prior to being called up from his most recent rehab assignment ending a few weeks ago. Optioning him back to Scranton is exactly what the Yankees should do. The sooner his market value increases to a level approximating what it was at the end of last year, the sooner Cashman can confidently float his services in the trade market. The longer Cashman can float Miggy on the market, the greater leverage he will have to make a great trade. Why? Because Miggy's numbers won't regress once they catch up to where they were. Owners know what he can do in the Bigs, so the fact that the high numbers he'll have generated proximate to the time he's traded will be numbers he will have generated hitting against AAA pitchers, won't matter. The risk Miggy's numbers don't return must be weighed against the risks associated with waiting any longer for Miggy to get his head on straight, in an environment working against him for that to happen. I see the former as practically zero risk (For those concerned, even if Gio flops while Miggy flops in Scranton, those would be two independent events, requiring an entirely new and different course of action all together). I see the risk leaving him where is as great, because a) I think the risk Gio isn't the real McCoy as low and b) I think we can field a better team from the one we have now with someone other than Miggy as DH.

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