Rain Out
Tonight's game is rained out with a day/night doubleheader scheduled for tomorrow.
In the short term, it's a good thing because the Yankees heard that Alfredo Aceves is going to the DL with a bulging disk and the Yankees were already short in the bullpen today. Now, they will have a chance to rest the bullpen today and decide about their DL move over night.
In the long term, this creates two problems. The two games tomorrow will tax the bullpen. The second problem is that with no breaks in the schedule until May 24th, the Yankees will have to pitch Sergio Mitre as a starter again. Tomorrow they will throw Hughes and Vazquez with Sabathia, AJ and Pettitte scheduled to follow. Now, they will need to get Mitre back in there. I wonder if Girardi will take advantage of the rain and move Pettitte back to Sunday with Mitre starting on Saturday?
There were conflicting reports that Juan Miranda had been called up today, but most media outlets are reporting that no roster moves were made. I think Miranda will definitely be called up for tomorrow, but the question is will the Yankees just bring him up for Aceves or demote Russo and go back to the thin bench? I hope they opt to bring up Miranda to replace Aceves and go with "only" 12 pitchers. With Nova stretched out and every other reliever rested, they should be able to cover two games. They could always fly an extra reliever to Detroit and have him on standby if the pen gets roughed up in the first game.
We will learn more in the morning.
