ESPN.com - MLB - Concerned Yanks sending Sheffield for more tests
A serious injury to Sheffield would represent a worse case scenario for the Yankees as they have nothing on the major league bench that could contribute a third of Sheff's offensive production.
(Just now Alexis Rios flyed out routinely to Bernie Williams in RF and Frank Catalonotto tagged-up from 2B and made it by a mile.)
At AAA Columbus, they have Mitch Jones who has hit quite a few minor league homee runs with decent OBP. However, his strikeouts are sky-high (21 in 76 ABs), and I suspect he will hit in the .200 area with lots of Ks and an occasional HR.
Amongst the less powerful Clipper OFers are Kevin Reese, Kevin Thompson and Melky Cabrera - last season's rushed prospect.
This year Melky is hitting .333/.392/.471 - a batting line that certainly merits a secodn look. Add in melky's young age, and his days as a dead prospect may have been greatly exxagerated.
I doubt he'd be the first call-up, but I wouldn't be surprised to see a rapid succession of failure begining with Jones and ending three weeks later with the two Kevins. this would then lead to Melky Cabrera part II.
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