Yankees Could Release Sergio Mitre

Via Joel Sherman of the NY Post: There are scouts saying that they are convinced the Yankees are going to release Sergio Mitre… …Mitre was supposed to start yesterday. But he said he came down with an injury to his side. OK, then we will just take it as coincidence that a righty with ordinary stuff came down with a side injury rather than take a three-hour bus ride to face the Red Sox’s lefty-leaning main lineup (minus J.D. Drew) on national TV. It is just miraculous, I suppose, that Mitre was reporting no pain 24 hours later and might pitch as early as Thursday. Some scouts saying that the Yankees will release somebody certainly doesn’t mean that he’ll be released. Sherman’s evidence that he could be released is interesting though. The bottom line is that the Yankees do have other options for both the rotation and the long-man and they don’t necessarily need to pay Mitre to do a job that other pitchers could do. Via Tim Dierkes of MLB T...