Nightly Links: Hughes, Ibanez, Betances

By On March 26, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Link Dump
  • continued his impressive spring today by going 6 .0 innings, giving up two runs and six hits. During the minor league game he was sitting 91-92 mph with his fastball and topped out at 94. His curveball and changeup looked impressive as he struck out 4 through the day. Almost two weeks ago I posted about ‘s injury and Phil Hughes’ strong spring narrowing down the pitching competition, and has a source that says Phil Hughes has “all but wrapped up a spot in the rotation.”
  • Gabe Lezra at It’s About the Money wants you to stop analyzing ‘s velocity problems as if he’s Phil Hughes. The reason this is such a big issue comes from Hughes’ problems last year, but Pineda has been successful despite the drop. I won’t worry until April 6th.
  • Brandon C at Pinstripe Alley thinks , despite an awful spring (but hey he hit a homerun this weekend), will make the opening day roster. With all the money invested in Ibanez, the front office might as well give him a few weeks of real baseball before they decide to cut him.
  • Two interviews with Yankees, one from The Greedy Pinstripes who’s got a “twitterview” with 18th round prospect Hayden Sharp. Then we have Jeff Bradley of Star-Ledger who scored an interview with . Apparently he’s a bleacher creature, though I’ve never seen him there.
  • Mike Axisa has his take on ‘s interesting and rough career path thus far.

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