Yankees to call up Jesus Montero?

Is that the phone ringing?

The news sites are buzzing that Jesus Montero may be up in pinstripes at the end of the month. We have been hearing about the second coming of Thurman Munson for a few years now and he could use some big league at bats. Montero is having a very similar 2011 up in Scranton that he had last year. If you really break down the numbers, it looks like his 2010 might have been a little better.

 

Year                      Tm Lev Aff   G  AB  R   H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO   BA  OBP  SLG  OPS
2010   Scranton/Wilkes-Barre AAA NYY 123 453 66 131 34  3 21  75 46 91 .289 .353 .517 .870
2011   Scranton/Wilkes-Barre AAA NYY  87 340 38  98 17  1 11  51 27 79 .288 .345 .441 .786

As you can see his average is about the same, but HR pace is lower, as well as OBP, SLG and OPS. In this day and age of sabermetrics, those are highly analyzed numbers. Hopefully he’s just bored down there because I still want him up in the bigs.

Manny Banuelos promoted to AAA. FitzandVig fired up.

Manny Banuelos Bringing the Thunder

The biggest move of the day for the New York Good Guys turned out to be the promotion of Manny Banuelos from 2A Trenton to 3A Scranton Wilkes Barre.  Word is Jim and Pam Halpert are excited to welcome Banny (Big Triple Girardi nod) to the neighborhood.  The 20 year old prospect is now the youngest player in the International League and he earned that distinction by pitching to a 3.59 ERA at 2A with a 1 to 1 inning-to-strikout ratio (Banuelos stats here).  ManBan could complete his season at 3A or perhaps he’ll be a bullpen reinforcement for the big league club down the stretch.  Either way, good to get Manny out from behind the shadow of the great Kei Igawa.