Yankees do not plan to pursue Carlos Silva

Via Jack Curry, the Yankees have no plans to pursue the recently released Carlos Silva. Larry Rothschild was Silva’s pitching coach with the Cubs last year, so I assume he had some input here. Had the Yankees not signed Kevin Millwood or watched Bartolo Colon have such a strong camp, I assume they’d be much more interested. Silva’s not great but he’s useful (3.75 FIP last year, sub-4.65 in three of the last four years) and dirt cheap since Chicago is on the hook for his $11.5M salary, save the league minimum his new team will pay.

Then again, Silva had an atrocious spring (27 runs and 34 baserunners in 17.1 IP), got into a fight with a teammate in the dugout, and trashed his pitching coach on the way out, so I can certainly see why they’d pass. It’s one thing if the guy’s a jerk and highly effective, it’s another thing if he’s just a marginal pitcher like Silva.