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to replace nady

ugh, why no melancon

Melancon will be coming soon, don't worry. Robertson is a bit more experienced so it makes sense for him to be the first option.

I like robertson, he misses bats.. Hope he succeeds..

he got optioned down and miranda called up

We knew that was coming, we needed to replace Nady with a bat rather than an extra reliever. Miranda has been incredible in AAA, even against lefties. I really thought he had a chance to win the 1B job this season if we didn't get Tex, so it will be interesting to see what he can do in limited ABs.

veras over robertson is a disgrace

Pharmcat wrote:veras over robertson is a disgrace

This. Veras isn't a useless reliever but there's no point to keeping him on the big league bullpen when there's better guys in AAA; I thought I heard Veras has at least one more minor league option left. Bringing up Miranda was a perfectly fine move, especially with Matsui's latest problem.

While I would have liked to see robertson stay up, but, there is no way he's more reliable than veras at this point. It makes me laugh how people here are so quick to change opinion/sides in an argument.

Before the season began NO ONE would have been saying that Robertson was a better pitcher than Veras... NO ONE.. 2 IP later and people switch sides.. give me a break..

jeff1624 wrote:While I would have liked to see robertson stay up, but, there is no way he's more reliable than veras at this point. It makes me laugh how people here are so quick to change opinion/sides in an argument.

Before the season began NO ONE would have been saying that Robertson was a better pitcher than Veras... NO ONE.. 2 IP later and people switch sides.. give me a break..

That's not really true. Most people regarded Robertson as the 2nd or 3rd best relief prospect in the system behind Melancon and Coke and thought he would be a factor in the pen this year.

Veras put up a nice K-rate last season and was solid overall but I still see him as a poor-man's Bruney: a power pitcher with command issues. He'll be useful somewhere in the league but i'm not buying him as a successful reliever from year to year. It's true that all we've seen so far this year is a small sample size, but Robertson and Melancon have both been dominant in the minors for a couple years now and the fact that they're coming out blazing in 09 says that they're ready for the big league pen.

The truth is there's no definites here because all of these guys save for Mo and Marte (who might be legitimately falling off) have limited track records in the majors. My view is that keeping Veras up is holding the Yankees back from the best possible pen, though.

My hope is that they're gonna sell Veras...I really hope that's the plan.