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Brandon Laird could be the Yankees? best internal option for a platoon with Eric Chavez while Alex Rodriguez is out (Photo Credit: Paul Hadsall)
As the Yankee world gasped at the sight of star third baseman Alex Rodriguez writhing in pain in the Safeco Field batter?s box last night, clutching his wrist, one can imagine the thought?s going through the minds of those infielders playing for Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre who may have been watching. As a former Yankee utilityman banished to Triple-A in favor of first Eduardo Nunez, and then Jayson Nix, it was Ramiro Pena who got the call to rush to the airport this morning in Charlotte, hop on a plane, and be in Seattle just in time for the first pitch.
But Pena will never stick. He?s a light-hitting utilityman who will last all of a free plane ride back to the New York area with the team before being sent back upstate to Triple-A. Instead, they have a pair of options down�on the farm�who could probably find succ...
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