Tuesday, March 20, 2007

North Jersey.com: Yanks’ Mientkiewicz back in the swing of things

DUNEDIN, Fla.—In the ninth inning of a lopsided exhibition game, Doug Mientkiewicz pulled into second base with a double—an event that less than half of Monday’s crowd of 5,510 actually witnessed at Knology Park.

Prior to smacking that drive up against the right center field fence, Mientkiewicz had merely one hit in his first 25 Grapefruit League at-bats.

Mientkiewicz’s bad start this spring has a lot of people who hated his signing up in arms.  However, it’s spring training and small sample size caveats apply.  Also, I don’t see any way he’s not breaking camp as a Yankee.  The bigger question is who is he going to be sharing time with.  If the Yankees can’t decide between Phelps and Phillips, then they should probably carry 11 pitchers, not 12, and keep both.  Besides, when’s the last time Joe Torre made any meaningful use of the last two or three men in his bullpen anyway?

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