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New York Yankees pitcher Alfredo Aceves, right, shakes hands with
catcher Jorge Posada after getting the save as they defeated the
Toronto Blue Jays 10-8 in a baseball game Sunday, July 5, 2009,
at Yankee Stadium in New York. (AP Photo/Bill Kostroun)
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With Chien-Ming Wang on the DL with a shoulder strain just as he was getting over the terminally hanging sinker he has been nursing all year, Joe Girardi has confirmed that Alfredo Aceves will be your Thursday starter.
The decision was presumably between moving Phil Hughes back to the rotation given his recent success out of the bullpen, trying to stretch Brett Tomko out for five innings, or handing the ball to Aceves.
Any of the potential moves would have been a blow to the bullpen that has become a Yankee strength in recent games, but giving Hughes some stability in his role and the question mark around the veteran Tomko’s durability makes Aceves the spot starter.
Sergio Mitre, the convicted performance enhancer, was also in line for the Thursday start, but Girardi confirmed that he just didn’t have enough innings under his belt to make the jump.
In 2008, the big righty Aceves from Sonora came up late in the season for four starts and a pair of relief appearances with good success. Over the 30 innings Aceves worked a 2.40 ERA and recorded 16 strikeouts to only 10 walks.
Sounds good, right? Well in 21 relief appearances, but no starts yet, this season he has been even better – 2.03 ERA over 40 innings with a considerably improved 34 strikeouts to just 7 walks.
After a long road back to respectability that he was finally making headway towards, patience are thin and no one is really too eager to get Wang back with the big league club. Aceves, on the other hand, has shown he can handle both the starting and relief roles – now we get to see what he can do with consistent big league work.
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