Even Sergio Mitre has seen enough of Sergio Mitre. (AP) I don’ t know about you, but I’ve seen enough of Sergio Mitre 2.0 (and I’m fairly certain most of you have too). Mitre has made just three appearances since rejoining the Yankees, but he has allowed roughly twice as many runs ...

The latest addition to the Yankee organization is lefty reliever Shoeless J.C. Romero. (AP) Links from hither and yon detailing the whereabouts of players you scarcely knew were missing: • According to ESPN’s Buster Olney, the Yankees have signed lefty reliever J.C. Romero, a 35-year-old veteran ...

I thought this was a belated April Fool’s story when I saw it: In the manager’s office after Thursday’s game, Angels manager Mike Scioscia and GM Tony Reagins discussed their options for nearly 30 minutes after center fielder Peter Bourjos injured his hamstring in the eighth inning. The ...

I have been asked via Twitter to say something snarky about Sergio Mitre. I find that all of you are doing such a good job of it that I have little to add. Indeed, one correspondent has insisted that the dangerous Meat Ray has value because of his resemblance to a sponge–which is to say that he ...

New outfielder Chris Dickerson provides the Yankees with some depth as well as flexibility. (AP) With less than a week to go before opening day, we appear to have some resolution in the Great Yankee Rotation Derby of 2011. This morning, the Yanks traded Sergio Mitre to the Brewers for outfielder Chris ...

Last spring on a faraway coast, the Dodgers began the season with two of the most retreaded retreads ever to tread onto a shorthanded pitching staff. Collectively, they were known as the Zombie Ortiz brothers, though their only relation was by bloody awfulness, not by blood. Beware the pull of spring ...

PECOTA likes Sergio Mitre more than you'd expect. (AP) This morning, the first build of the 2011 PECOTA forecasts was released to Baseball Prospectus subscribers. For many of BP’s readers (not to mention our writers), this glimpse of the coming season’s projections is the equivalent of ...

The Yankees had to try, I get that. You need some kind of fallback position, insurance, in case things don’t work out, and sometimes you can sew a staff together out of random bits of reputation you found strewn about the league.  No one thinks much about the 1980 Yankees because they were swept out ...

“Well, he was still throwing the ball good,” isn't much more of a rationale for not taking the ball from A.J. Burnett than "It seemed like a good idea at the time." (AP) Coffee Joe has finally reared his ugly head. Up 3-2 in the sixth, Girardi found the spot where he could put his imprint ...

Thanks to a short bullpen and a slumping offense, Carl Pavano is coming to a Yankees playoff series near you. (AP) To echo a point that Cliff made over the weekend, it’s amazing that in two consecutive series billed as “playoff previews,” Chad Gaudin and Sergio Mitre played a major role in the ...