Chris Hammond - New York Yankees Can Weather Rafael Soriano Loss - But Brian Cashman Can Say I Told You So

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In involving Jo-Jo Reyes carrying out a formidable career with pitching him self into location to wrap a dubious major league document as well as Mariano Rivera establishing a different sort of milestone, that received many rather troubling media Wednesday. was recognized together with a strong painful elbow ligament which will very likely sideline the actual $35 million set-up reliever until after the All-Star break.

This has been problematic in particular to the Steinbrenner siblings as well as workforce us president GM Brian Cashman . If you might be scoring with home, this kind of today would make three high-priced set-up relievers - Soriano, Damaso Marte as well as Pedro Feliciano , for you to with whom the Yankees are generally spending a blended $17.7 zillion this holiday season - who will not really place your pitch intended for these folks for your foreseeable future and, in the case associated with your second option two, possibly certainly not at all.

It holds too early to be able to point out this placing your signature to associated with Soriano your disaster. He does, right after all, include a couple far more ages on their contract - opt-out a long time that many surely will currently grow to be opt-in years. But the Yankees, staying the Yankees, can easily take up this sort of overpaying mistakes (See: Chris Hammond , ) plus blithely go forward while whenever they never happened.

These previous couple of games towards your Nick Swisher 's regressions, for all those regarding Jorge Posada 's frustrations, are still more effective down compared to sleep on the very sub-par American League , using the feasible exception connected with your Andruw Jones from the second in addition to Mark Teixeira inside third.

"Jo-Jo weren't as pointed while he would been," Blue Jays supervisor John Farrell said. "I hiring workers rather than your dog quit his pitches in place and the price tag him."

Aside at a small uprising in that seventh, the outmanned Jays, that had Jose Molina batting fifth, limped to a negative 7-3 loss plus Reyes thus registered an old Oakland A's righty Matt Keough (1978-79) in addition to Cliff Curtis belonging to the Boston Braves (1910-11) in the track record courses regarding nearly all consecutive starts off with no victory. During this ability he could be 0-13 that has a 6.59 ERA as some sort of starter, and so he or she nonetheless features a methods of head over to acquire ex-Met Anthony Young 's record connected with 27 consecutive losses.