Yankees sign ERIC MILTON

[Matt]

Yankees sign Eric Milton to minor-league deal

by Ed Price/The Star-Ledger

Friday July 11, 2008, 4:06 PM

Gernal manager Brian Cashman confirmed the Yankees have signed lefty Eric Milton to a minor-league contract.

 

Milton, who turns 33 next month, is still recovering from "Tommy John" surgery. He threw on flat ground today in Tampa, Fla., and is at least six weeks away from pitching in games.

 

"If he does anything to help us this year, that's fine," Cashman said. "We're just going to have a chance to get an advance look (for 2009)."

 

Milton was the Yankees' No. 1 draft pick in 1996 but they traded him to Minnesota in February 1998 as part of a package for Chuck Knoblauch. Milton has an 87-84 career record and 5.01 ERA for Minnesota, Philadelphia and Cincinnati.

 

The Yankees have also worked out but not signed right-hander Victor Zambrano.

 

http://www.nj.com/yankees/index.ssf/2008/07/yankees_sign_eric_milton_to_mi.html

 

Things are looking reeeeaal good out in Yankee-land right now...

[26 to 6]

He's just some insurance. He's at least six weeks away from beginning a Minor League rehab, and what exactly do the Yankees have to lose?

[The Dustball]

He's just some insurance. He's at least six weeks away from beginning a Minor League rehab' date=' and what exactly do the Yankees have to lose?[/quote']

 

Not much to lose, not much to gain either. Who's next, Jason Johnson?

[26 to 6]

Hey why not. I'm still waiting on David Wells

haha

 

 

There's nothing wrong with taking a chance on a low risk-high reward guy. It's not often, but sometimes you can manage to pull a rabbit out of the hat.

[a700hitter]

This move is not deserving of a separate thread.

[SchillingIsTheNatural]

There's nothing wrong with taking a chance on a low risk-high reward guy.

 

I don't think this guy falls into the potential high reward category....he's pretty much always been mediocre with a career best ERA of 4.32 back in 2001. To think he could best that would be a stretch.

[a700hitter]

I don't think this guy falls into the potential high reward category....he's pretty much always been mediocre with a career best ERA of 4.32 back in 2001. To think he could best that would be a stretch.

I'll admit that he is no Jason Johnson, but I shudder when I hear that justification used by the Sox. Jason 'the Ultimate Loser" Johnson was touted as a low risk move. They left him in the rotation for 6 starts. After going 0-4 and the team winning only 1 of his 6 starts, the season was essentially wrecked. That's what can happen with these so-called low-risk noves.

[Mr Crunchy]

when jjohnson was brought in david wells was our ace and lenny dinardo was our 2.

schill was shelved,arroyo dealt for wily mo and the rest of the crew was either hurt or plain pitiful.

his 1st start was against miami and he didnt get out of the 2nd inning if i recall.

i do remember it was a friday night and a 12mile ride from my house to framingham was all florida needed to blow it open

[Mr Crunchy]

eric milton?

his last effective year was in 2000

[Gom]

Cashman hasn't figured out that in order to get a decent pitcher [i.e. Santana, Harden, Sabathia] you have to actually give up some players. He seems to be under the impression that somehow quantity trumps quality. I think in his idiot mind, he thinks that Ponson and Milton can both pitch at the same time, and somehow equal one good pitcher.

 

Idiot.

[Mr Crunchy]

as a neutral observer i wonder how the brothers fredo will handle the pressure in the next 2 weeks if the yanks stick to the young guys and arent players in the trade market.

i forgot who pointed out that a prospects highest value is at the deadline when the also rans are looking to dumo salary for youth and bite on the unproven phenoms.

its not out of the realm of reason to think that hughes and especially kennedy were more valuable last fall than they will ever be in the future...

same thing with craig hansen and the sox a couple years back and i have a list a mile long of sox younguns who busted before they made it here..our karma has changed under this ownership group for whatever reason...we've had good health and better results from our pitching in the recent drafts and ironically the 3 guys we traded for petey were the only 3 prospects in that time frame that produced anything in the mlb level outside jeff suppan

[SchillingIsTheNatural]

I'll admit that he is no Jason Johnson' date=' but I shudder when I hear that justification used by the Sox. Jason 'the Ultimate Loser" Johnson was touted as a low risk move. They left him in the rotation for 6 starts. After going 0-4 and the team winning only 1 of his 6 starts, the season was essentially wrecked. That's what can happen with these so-called low-risk noves.[/quote']

 

Wade Miller and Bartolo Colon are guys who I would consider low-risk high-reward type pitchers. Players who don't cost anything but have been successful at one time. Pitchers like Sidney Ponson, Eric Milton, and Jason Johnson were never that good but there is a chance...I just can't call them high-reward when they were never high-reward when healthy or in there prime.

[Mr Crunchy]

wade milller??

me and paradise city were at his lone redsox victory against atlanta whenever that was

[Youk Of The Nation]

Haha Victor Zambrano too. I can't wait for the first Kazmir/Zambrano matchup, it'll be all friggin Joe Morgan can talk about the entire game.

[jacksonianmarch]

What happened? Well, I'll tell you what happened.

 

Phil Hughes and Ian Kennedy proved that they werent ready. Phil physically, Ian mentally. Both should finish the yr in Scranton and both should start next yr there as well. Looks like a lost yr for Phil, while Kennedy is learning the ropes in AAA, a level he never should have skipped.

 

Igawa has just been plain awful.

 

Our ace, Wang goes down for 10 weeks, which equates to about 14 starts.

 

Joba steps in and pitches well.

 

Mussina and Pettitte show they are still good

 

Rasner pitches in with #5 starter performance.

 

Ponson pitches in with #5 starter performance

 

Alan Horne goes down with an elbow twinge then a tired shoulder, looks like a lost yr for the next yankee arm

 

Chase Wright, on the 40 man and pitching well early on, goes down with an arm injury, misses a month and comes back very hittable. Lost yr for him

 

Jeff Karstens injures his leg in ST and comes back as a mediocre AAAA player. Another lost yr

 

Humberto Sanchez needs surgery to remove bone chips from his elbow in February, knocking him out until May and now he is in the GCL pitching out of the pen. Lost yr and lost rotation option.

 

Steven White starts the yr on the 40 man and in the rotation, loses all control, gets moved to the pen, is AWFUL, gets put on waivers with no takers and is now stinking up the joint out of Scranton's pen. Lost everything for him.

 

Alfredo Aceves gets signed out of the Mexican league, dominates AA and A+ ball. Somewhere between his last AA game and his first AAA game he strains his groin and is now working out of the pen

 

Dan McCutchen lights up AA, struggles initially in AAA and then dominates again. A good option if he was a long term fix, but a poor option for the short term as he has proven time and time again that he struggles right after a callup.

 

So in all, we had a lot of depth and anything that could go wrong, did. Nobody is hurt to where their careers are in jeopardy, so thats good, but lots of lost yrs for guys who needed to develop.

[YAZMAN]

You forgot Pavano. Isn't he due for another strained vagina or something?