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The Yanks resigned Humberto Sanchez, and assigned him to Double-A Trenton. They released Sanchez a week ago to clear room on the 40-man roster for Mark Melancon. These kind of release-and-resign deals aren’t all that uncommon. Teams will usually do this when they have a player they want to remove from their 40-man roster, but want to keep him in the organization without exposing him to waivers. Since Humberto is a young power arm that is cost controllable for the next six years, there’s a chance someone would have put a claim in.
Triple-A Scranton (3-1 loss to Indianapolis)
Kevin Russo: 2 for 4
John Rodriguez & Austin Jackson: both 1 for 4 – J-Rod drove in the only run & K’ed
Todd Linden: 0 for 2, 2 BB, 1 K – hit streak ends at 19 games
Shelley Duncan: 0 for 4
Juan Miranda & Chris Malec: both 1 for 3, 1 BB
Doug Bernier: 0 for 3, 1 K
Chris Stewart: 2 for 3, 1 R, 1 2B
The Ghost of Kei Igawa: 6.1 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 6 K, 5-8 GB/FB, 1 E (throwing) – 62 of 91 pitches were strikes (68.1%) … he’s up to 10 homers allowed in 27.2 IP
Jose Valdez: 0.1 IP, 1 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 4 BB, 0 K, 1-0 GB/FB – just 13 of 32 pitches were strikes (40.6%) … yikes
JB Cox: 1.1 IP, zeroes, 2 K, 1-1 GB/FB – 13 of 22 pitches were strikes (59.1%)