Since my mind has been on the New York Giants and Super Bowl XLVI, I neglected to comment on New York Post Joel Sherman’s tweet
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from this past Sunday, about the Yankees signing reliever Manny Delcarmen to a minor league deal.
Truthfully, I didn’t realize Delcarmen still pitched because I hadn’t heard his name since he was a Boston Red Sox years ago.
Delcarmen was a solid righty reliever for Red Sox in both the 2007 and 2008 regular seasons.
On Boston’s 2007 Championship run he made 44 appearances, pitched 44 innings; posted a 2.05 ERA, giving up just four homers, 10 earned runs, 17 walks and struck out 41 batters of the 176 he faced.
And in 2008 Delcarmen earned himself a heavier workload appearing in 73 games, and throwing a total of 74.1 innings. He gave up just five homers, and almost doubled his strikeouts with 72 but he also walked 28 batters too.
Delcarmen also pitched in both postseason’s for Boston, and other than the two decent innings he thr...
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