Teixeira emerges, passes an early hero
Posted by: Chad Jennings - Posted in Misc on Aug 03, 2011 
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The record is kind of an obscure one, but it meant something to Mark Teixeira. He’s now homered from the both sides of the plate in the same game more often than anyone in baseball history. It meant something to Teixeira for several reasons, I’m sure, but this one stands out.
One of the players he passed was Chili Davis. The other was Hall of Famer Eddie Murray.
“I grew up in Baltimore, and Eddie was such a great player,” Teixeira said. “And (Eddie) being a switch hitter, I always messed around as a switch hitter in the backyard. I started playing baseball at a really young age in the backyard — just Wiffle ball — and when I had a few swings right handed, I’d switch over left-handed and try to hit one over the fence left handed. So that record’s pretty special.”
The record was a little bit lost on a night dominated by Phil Hughes. You know what else has been a little bit lost lately? Teixeira is hitting again. He’s been hitting for power all year, but in 20 games since the all-star break he’s batting .305 with six homers and 17 RBI.
It’s not one of those red-hot streaks that jumps out at you, but it’s a positive step for a guy who’s used to being a much more complete hitter than he’s been this season.
“It feels good,” Teixeira said. “It just goes back to me getting ready early. I had a bad stretch there, and Kevin Long and I just said, ‘You’re late.’ Just getting down early, getting ready, and trying to put good swings on the ball.”
Associated Press photo
BY the way, welcome to the AMERICAN League Mike Adams…now go F yourself and F the Rangers
A very good morning, all ?
Great night last night, and great day this am, for Yankees? fans.
I?d be a bit surprised if they deal a SP. Pitching strength can disappear in an instance, and I think Cash and Joe realize that. Why move someone who may turn out to be needed at the drop of a hamstring?
If they really want to find a deal for Cisco, they could put him on waivers and see what they get. If not to their liking, they can pull him back, and make other arrangements. They already showed their willingness to send Nova ? who?s having a better season than Cisco ? to Scranton. Why not Cisco, to free up a spot for Monstero? This way, you keep your catching depth, as well.
Congrats to Tex-that’s awesome.
Mantle held that switch hitting homer record for almost half a century. He originally broke it back in the late 50s. Long time to hold a record.
Nice Tex-message sent out last night.
Think the WS got it ?
mick
It wasn’t just AJ.
http://espn.go.com/blog/new-yo.....on-waivers
MTU August 3rd, 2011 at 9:20 am
Kate-
I caught a case of the GB’s. sorry.
RR’s kill rattlers. and yes, they are scary.
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The proper medical term is Heebee GBs
any chance Po gets one more game behind the plate?
maybe their final home game against Boston…
here is an interesting Tex fact…well probably only interesting to me
Tex has hit 6 GS. My family has seen 2 in person, live at YS. One when he was still w/ the Angels, and one in the 17-7 blow out vs the As.
GB-
Beats the BeeGee GB’s I guess ?
Thanks Doc.
How good Tex can be on his bot streaks kinda gets lost in his cold streaks…..sure you’d like for him to.be more consistent but he’s still a very productive player that can carry a team for a stretch when he’s hot. He’s on a HOF pace.
My confidence level with this team is probably the highest its been this season right now……I’ve always knew they would make the playoffs but had reservations about how the rotation would stack up.2-4 in a short series. You don’t want to make too much of one start but I now have some hope that if Hughesy is back with a new curveball then they might just can have enough when combined with their pen and offense.
upstate kate August 3rd, 2011 at 9:26 am
here is an interesting Tex fact…well probably only interesting to me
Tex has hit 6 GS. My family has seen 2 in person, live at YS. One when he was still w/ the Angels, and one in the 17-7 blow out vs the As.
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Any chance that your family can get to the park to get the GS total up to 10 by the end of the season?n
Really doesn’t matter because AJ and Jorge can not be traded without their permission and neither is going to give it.
Soriano can and if he gets claimed my guess is he’s outa here — wish he could take Levine with him on the way out the door.
kate-that’s cool! I’ve never seen a GS in person.
upstate kate August 3rd, 2011 at 9:26 am
here is an interesting Tex fact?well probably only interesting to me
Tex has hit 6 GS. My family has seen 2 in person, live at YS. One when he was still w/ the Angels, and one in the 17-7 blow out vs the As.
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+1 if you can name the starting Yankees pitcher from that game (I was there too)
*when he was with the Angels, I mean
snales? bot? I think that somebody needs to drink more. If nothing else, it gives you a good excuse.
welcome to the AMERICAN League Mike Adams…
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This isn’t late night lohud so try and relax. Often when a player comes to a new team he tries to do too much and it backfires. It’s quite normal.
Tex needed to step it up in Arod’s absence and has. It feels good to look forward to his at-bats again.
I also found myself looking forward to Phil taking the mound each inning last night. I’m no pro but I thought his delivery looked more fluid than usual.
Floyd curveballed the Yanks to death last time they saw him…..hopefully they make some adjustments and get AJ some runs for a change……GB is right ……AJ hasn’t gotten any run support in a lot of his starts.
Soriano can and if he gets claimed my guess is he?s outa here ? wish he could take Levine with him on the way out the door
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I’m glad to see that Boesch has found a new target to hit that doesn’t wear pinstripes.
Ken_Rosenthal Ken Rosenthal
What the heck happened to the #Orioles? http://t.co/JcLnjK3 #MLB
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Buck Showalter?
heyman sux
I only get to one game a year, so I usually remember them well. It was Daryl Rasner vs John Lackey, who had just pitched a near no hitter at Fenway. We had great seats and it was a perfect day so we didn’t care, but what a crazy game. The Yankees won 14-9, but the lead kept switching. There were 2 double steals, one by each team. I think Edwar got the win.
Not sure if anybody saw LaRussa’s explosion on the post game or not, but, talk about pathetic. He blamed Ryan Braun for getting intentionally hit by his pitcher for not getting out of the way.
GB-
Nope.
“Suck Bowalter” is his name.
Get it right.
Larussa’s act is about as tired as Buck’s……Cardinal fans are getting sick of him as well.
GB-
Tony gets the Joe Maddon award.
Whaaaaa ! I want my huggy bear.
GB-
LaRussa might win the Silver Blubber award this year.
I have no issues with pitchers protecting their hitters, but, three areas are off limits….head, knees and hands. It’s not a difficult target to hit when you nail ‘em in the wallet.
upstate kate August 3rd, 2011 at 9:38 am
heyman sux
I only get to one game a year, so I usually remember them well. It was Daryl Rasner vs John Lackey, who had just pitched a near no hitter at Fenway. We had great seats and it was a perfect day so we didn?t care, but what a crazy game. The Yankees won 14-9, but the lead kept switching. There were 2 double steals, one by each team. I think Edwar got the win.
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Lol bingo. Razzmatazz!
Even though we don’t seem to be perfectly content with SP, at least the rotation isn’t Rasner+Sidney Ponson
Maybe we could hire Ponson to escort Jones back to the Dutch Antilles.
He could put Andruw in his pouch.
Or is that paunch ?
Oh well. Whatever.
If Nova was this untouchable pitcher that Cashman loves then Hughes wouldn’t have taken his spot in the rotation to begin with.
Hughes stays in the rotation and Nova goes to AAA to stay stretched out in case or injury and double header starts.
Actions speak louder than words and Nova being sent down when Phil came off the DL was loud and clear.
I was very lucky last year and saw 3 GS at Yankees Stadium. Arod on Memorial day against Cleveland. Gardner off of Romero against Toronto and Cano off French of Seattle. I felt so lucky. My wife was with me each time so I’m convinced it was all her + vibes.
As for waivers on Posada and AJ —They have complete no trade protection so even if they did pass thru they would have to agree to go.
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AJ can only block trades to 10 teams.
rr212-that’s awesome. I kind of forgot about that-they did seem to have a lot of grand slams last year. I remember the one by Gardner-I was in the car listening to John and Suzyn and couldn’t believe what I was hearing. lol
And, LaRussa reaches a new low, even for him. Files a complaint with the commissioner’s office because he said that the Brewers dimmed the lights around home plate when the Cardinals were batting and brightened them when the Brewers were hitting.
very nice rr212…you have to keep bringing your wife to games
MTU August 3rd, 2011 at 9:52 am
Maybe we could hire Ponson to escort Jones back to the Dutch Antilles.
He could put Andruw in his pouch.
Or is that paunch ?
Oh well. Whatever.
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Wasn’t Ponson into eating ice cream cones? Maybe they could go have some sort of eating competition…opening up a spot for Montero, of course
GreenBeret7 August 3rd, 2011 at 10:05 am
And, LaRussa reaches a new low, even for him. Files a complaint with the commissioner?s office because he said that the Brewers dimmed the lights around home plate when the Cardinals were batting and brightened them when the Brewers were hitting.
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Conspiracy!!!
LGY —-
My mistake on the AJ trade clause, thanx for correction
Can’t see any team claiming him, still
GreenBeret7 August 3rd, 2011 at 10:05 am
And, LaRussa reaches a new low, even for him. Files a complaint with the commissioner’s office because he said that the Brewers dimmed the lights around home plate when the Cardinals were batting and brightened them when the Brewers were hitting.
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I’m no fan of Larussa, I can’t stand him actually, but I saw on MLB TV last night, they were showing the difference between when the Brewers were batting and the Cards and it was easy to tell they were messing with the lighting. Reynolds called them foolish for doing something that obvious. Something will come of this, a fine at the very least for the Brewers maybe more.
Ponson vs Kobayashi might be really competitive!
It wasn’t even the lighting, it was the advertising ribbon board that circles the park. Apparently the “ads were darker” when they were the Cards were hitting.
I think La Russa may be losing it.
Oh, boy.
86
Me neither, though it would be a very nice surprise.
Kate, I always try to. The last one we went to this year together was CC’s 1-0 gem against the Rays this year.
# Villa Nova-Ya August 3rd, 2011 at 10:14 am
I think La Russa may be losing it.
Oh, boy.
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Price you pay for being a genius.
Sorry, but those stadium lights aren’t on dimmer switches like you have in your house. It takes a bit more time than a few seconds to turn the lights up and down. You don’t think that the umpires wouldn’t have noticed that?
LaRussa’s a clown. Early signs of dementia? Or just hung over from a night on the town?
u guys see cashmans quote after the scranton yankees game last night
“Two great, future New York Yankees right there,” New York general manager Brian Cashman? said. “It was a great win for this team tonight.”
jonathan p August 3rd, 2011 at 10:38 am
u guys see cashmans quote after the scranton yankees game last night
“Two great, future New York Yankees right there,” New York general manager Brian Cashman? said. “It was a great win for this team tonight.”
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awwww….the Baby Bombers!
No debating LaRussa has issues but look how crazy many here get when a pitcher throws near a Yankees head or hits one.
There is not an icebergs chance in hell that Hughes is sent to the pen or AAA. Hughes is no fluke, he is young and obviously has the physical ability to be a number one or a two in MLB. He had some normal injury problems which almost all pitchers do, the shoulder inflammation being the latest. He rested and strengthened his arm and is on his way back. He’s in essence just finishing his spring training and last night we all saw what he is capable of doing. He is a huge part of this ballclubs future and his upside potential is far greater than Ivan Nova’s who is very good nut does not have the lights out stuff that Hughes is capable of throwing. Hughes will now need to show some consistency, he will have setbacks, his command will be off sometimes and good AL hitters will make him pay. But the Yankees will have patience because They know what he can do. Last night he pitched like an ace.
Tony LaRussa: “Matchup. Did I hear somebody say Macthup ? ”
Unknown commentator: “No Tony.It’s alright you can go back to sleep now. Just calm down or you’ll wet yourself.”
Hughes in April form is doing a pretty good job against batters in midseason form. Nice start for him, hopefully one of many.
West Coast,
I agree with that. Hughes showed last night what he is more than capable of doing. Nova still has options. As i said last night, truthfully i would rather have Hughes and Nova and drop AJ, but we know that isn’t happening….
With Hughes and Nova we see the kind of problem that most teams would kill to have.
/Cashmaned
Really interesting Tom Verducci article on si.com about the shifting metagame of GMs in baseball to place more emphasis on prospect values and how trade deadline deals have shifted towards more team control instead of rentals.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.c.....index.html
Forgot the link. He builds the article around the premise that Billy Beane lost his strategic advantage in baseball of being able to scout and then acquire prospects he likes and thinks might be undervalued by rival front offices. Beane says that GMs nowadays don’t really negotiate, merely offering terms to be accepted.
jonathan p August 3rd, 2011 at 10:38 am
u guys see cashmans quote after the scranton yankees game last night
“Two great, future New York Yankees right there,” New York general manager Brian Cashman? said. “It was a great win for this team tonight.”
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Good for Cashman. First of all, he’s right, secondly, the brass is breathing down his neck that these kids make some quantifiable impact. Both those guys are in position to really help this last leg drive. Cash now needs to put his money where his mouth is & bring up Montero. The time is now so he can get some level of comfort.
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Tex and Cano are coming on at the right time. If we can just take off from here, we get Alex back & get Montero so MLB swings & the thing is running on all cylinders.
Yanks poised to do their second-half thing this season. Fortunately, they had a pretty damn good first half, too.
*some MLB swings
My 2nd half thing:
Destroy-Rod
The Messiah of Mash
And The Prodigy out of the pen
How about them apples ?
With the bullpen rested, it shouldn’t be a problem if Burnett can give 6 decent innings with good run support.
Its because of the ban on steroids and maybe more importantly amphetamines…….its a young mans game again and you can’t rely on 35+ guys anymore. Teams are spending their money to.develop prospects and then to lock them up through their prime years…..then rinse and repeat.
http://nomaas.org/2011/08/a-very-true-story/
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Yankees donate CC, Posada, and mariano rivera signed balls to a silent auction for charity… Red Sox donate a Darnell McDonald signed ball
In a perfect world the playoff rotaion will be CC, Phil,AJ,Colon.
This is the way they pictured it in ST.
If not for Boston this weekend, this would be the rotation now.
Hmmmm…….
CC Colon Phil AJ
In 4 of Hughes’ 5 starts since coming off the DL he’s given up 2 runs or less.
Gossip Break:
? Where’s beau Derek Jeter? Minka Kelly and Charlie’s Angels costar Annie Ilonzeh took a break from filming for dinner at the The Forge Restaurant & Wine Bar in Miami Beach. The ladies sat in the main dining room and chatted late into the evening over wine, a kale salad and their entrees, which included stuffed lobster, according to a source.
http://www.people.com/people/a.....41,00.html
If Phil ascends and Colon descends , not only could Phil get the #2 spot in the playoffs, AJ could get #3.
blake – that’s exactly right. Cash has said as much over the past two years. The days of guys in their late 30s still playing at a high level are gone forever – Gone with the greenies….. er, wind….
Mick
In ST Colon wasn’t even in the SR
Interesting article Jerkface. I am not sure about the idea of “prehabilitation”
CC-Colon-Phil-Chief
kate
makes my point.
colon was thought of a #4/5, even a bullpen guy
Them’s three good apples, MTU
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Good read, JF. I well remember the days when an mLB player was dealt for so-&-so & “two minor leaguers” who went unidentified. This only changed recently. We’d hear that in my household & groan:But WHICH minor leaguers? WHO, WHO?!!?…”
“dimmed the lights around home plate”
Actually, Tony, that was just your DTs kicking in.
Unless he actually blows up on the mound next time out Hughes will stay in the ‘ro and Nova will be sent down to SWB to bide his time down there for a couple of weeks…
The Yanks have such ML ready SP depth at the upper levels of the system with another wave of guys right behind them in A- AA ball that once again they will be in the catbirds seat when this offseason rolls around to address roster re-construction….
Depending on how he finishes up this season Colon may be brought back on a 1yr deal. I’d imagine that Freddy’s dead after this season…but AJ may be a tradeable after this year and Nova will definitely be a hot commodity…
There still is Warren, Phelps, Mitchell, Banuelos and Bettances who will be @ the AAA level ready to go or ready to be moved in the right blockbuster deal
Off topic movie break :
Anyone seen “Cowboys and Aliens” yet ?
Part of it looked like it was filmed in the “Bisti Badlands” of NM. Fantastic place.
prehab is coming into ST in shape so you wont need rehab.
Depending on how he finishes up this season Colon may be brought back on a 1yr deal. I’d imagine that Freddy’s dead after this season…but AJ may be a tradeable after this year and Nova will definitely be a hot commodity…
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Not if Boston gets involved on both.
Teams sometimes put a huge junk of their roster on waivers in order to disguise the player/s they want to trade. After hearing the pirate’s rumor, I’m thinking it could be Cervelli. And for the obvious reason of making room for Montero.
So it wouldn’t surprise me to see Cervelli’s name pop up soon on waivers and Montero coming up soon after that
Long distance dedication to Tony in Milwaukee:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HFXUZfbgG8
Looking forward to this year’s roster expansion. Lot’s of quality reinforcements possible.
Doesn’t anybody think the Yanks can wait till September to callup Montero?
Also , with CC comfortable with Cervelli, and Joe’s loyalty, I see no rush…
All the teams will look at who is on waivers. Cervelli will be one that might get a claim, even though he isn’t great, he is better than a number of other teams have as their starting catcher.
It will depend on the team looking to make the claim, but the Pirates would have a tough go getting the claim in being that they are in the NL.
Check out Crazy Stupid Love.
MTU-haven’t seen Cowboys and Aliens. Is it good?
mick August 3rd, 2011 at 11:26 am
Check out Crazy Stupid Love.
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mick- I loved that movie!
Next, LaRussa will accuse Bernie Brewer of stealing signs.
erin- i knew you would.
mick,
Of course, I’m not sure and have no way of knowing, but perhaps they’d like Montero up before September 1st so that he can be considered for the playoff roster?
Otherwise, I’d agree that there is no real need to rush, though admittedly I’d like to see him.
from the SI article that Jerkface posted:
As Beane’s “advantage” became neutralized by the availability of information — and now the herd mentality of overvaluing young players — Oakland did not find the next so-called “market inefficiency.” Worse, the Athletics whiffed in two emergent areas where ballclubs could carve out propriety advantages: “prehabilitation” (the nexus of medical and baseball information; identifying and reducing injury risks) and — this is the real Moneyball story — stadium revenue.
It doesn’t really explain prehabilitation, but it implies more than just coming to ST in shape, altho you would hope players would do that.
mick-I’m very predictable.
Montero can be activated for the playoffs , even after Sept 1, if he replaces an injured player
Why do people automatically assume Colon will not pitch well the rest of the year?
CC is comfortable no matter who is catching.
Kim Jones is nice and all, but her and Kay tend to be “beat a dead horse” and “cause problems with their repetitiveness or on how/what they focus on.”
Kim asked the leading question over & over again about Cervelli & CC to CC. Her latest leading question “what is it about you 2 that you work so well together?” She’s already implying that CC needs Cervelli.
CC is a nice guy & says nice things and thanks to Kim it sounds like CC can only work with Cervelli.
Erin-
Story is kind of ludicrous but the scenery is great.
Of course I liked it more as a Western than as a science-fiction movie.
Really like Harrison Ford, and Craig did a nice job as a tough guy cowboy.
So I couldn’t go wrong there.
Thanks for the tip Mick. I usually wait for stuff to come around on Red Box.
mick -
But you can’t predict injury.
Unless you’re suggesting that someone expendable be deemed to have an obscure injury?
MTU,
No but I wanted to this past weekend……was.made.to watch Harry Porter instead.
Unless you’re suggesting that someone expendable be deemed to have an obscure injury?
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you never know…
Is Harry Porter related to Harry Potter?
blake August 3rd, 2011 at 11:32 am
MTU,
No but I wanted to this past weekend??was.made.to watch Harry Porter instead.
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I bet Harry Porter wasn’t as good as Harry Potter.
mick August 3rd, 2011 at 11:33 am
Is Harry Porter related to Harry Potter?
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Nah, can’t even carry his bags.
(baboom. … ouch)
I really liked Cowboys & Aliens
The acting was good. They kept it grounded in a western throughout even though there were aliens there. The sub-plot/relationships were very good, so it wasn’t just an action film. They did a good job introducing the characters into the story before introducing the action. Harrison’s character was the most interesting/compelling to me.
Yes Harry Porter is his evil cousin……he kept the elder wand and ruled the world at the end.
I liked friends with benefits, haven’t checked out CSL yet though.
Kim Jones can ask whatever ?’s she wants to whats relevant is that Joe and Larry see the #’s and they don’t lie CC- Velli’s era is almost 2 runs lower than when Russ caught him.
CC is on a tremendous roll right now a u know he’s pitching for a new deal and I’m sure doesn’t want this to stop or change in anyway. He’s in the midst of his best season may win 24 games and if he can outduel Verlander for the Cy then he’s in the strongest bargaining position that he could be in….ALL of that adds up to Cervelli not going anywhere for now.
Jesus will come up soon maybe in the next few days and he will get work DH’ing and occasionally catching Colon and his countryman Freddy. If he can get 120-150 abs before the postseason he may be able to play his way onto the roster ( longshot )
It was great to see future Yankee Mike Stanton show off his range and rifle at Shea last night (that’s right, I’m still calling it Shea). I am sorry to report that being able to have an old fashioned pre-game tailgate in the parking lot makes the Shea experience better than YS. I’ll take my propane grill over being elbow to elbow at Stan’s any day. Of course, the Mets stunk up the joint at the end like always, but if they start winning sometime soon, that new Shea will be rocking.
New Post- Brett Gardner: Everyday player
ac1 August 3rd, 2011 at 11:30 am
Why do people automatically assume Colon will not pitch well the rest of the year?
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Age-ism?
Blake-
I’m a might partial to Westerns padner.
Especially ones that feature beautiful scenery.
NM is like my 2nd home. Lived there for 7 years and thru my wanderings saw lot’s of country like that shown.
The league/MLB still has to approve the use of a player to be added to the post season roster if the player joined the team after 1 September and the other team used to have to approve it. That rule has been around forever. It most likely cost the Yanks the ’64 WS when Tony Kubek was injured and the Yanks wanted to replace him with reliever/late season closer Pedro Ramos and the Cardinals refused and baseball backed up the the Cards. A completely usesless rookie named Mike Hegan was the replacement. Ramos was a waiver trade in early September from Cleveland.
I had fun watching Hughes last night. Seeing his fastball reach 95 mph was a complete shock.
Hughes was a different person last night.
I liked the aggressiveness he showed from the first out to the final out.
Did the stars all line up for him last night or were the results due to all the hard work he
has been doing since returning from the DL?
“The rules allow for an injured player to be replaced by anyone who was in the organization on Aug. 31, even if that player wasn’t in the majors. The replacement must be pitcher-for-pitcher, or position player-for-position player.”
It’s funny because Montero could replace Reegie Corona on the PS roster.