Written by Greg Fertel | 04 August 2008

Tyler Kepner of the New York Times has the news.  I'm a little surprised the Yankees jumped Hughes up to AAA so quickly, without giving him a rehab outing in high-A or AA.  I would have expected them to take it slower with him, but they must have been impressed with his outing in Charleston, where he was reportedly hitting 95 with some regularity.  I imagine he will have 3 or so starts in AAA before they bring him back to the majors, assuming everything goes well in those starts. In other news, ESPN is reporting that the Yankees are one of several teams that are being investigated for irregularities in bonus payments to their Latin American signees.  About 20 team employees over about 5-6 teams are implicated in bonus skimming, in which they illegally have taken a portion of a player's bonus.  Kelvin DeLeon is mentioned as one of the players who might have been forced to pay a kickback.  This doesn't look good for the Yankees and the other teams involved (the Red Sox have already fired their Dominican scouting supervisor), and could lead to more regulation of the virtually laissez-faire Latin American market.

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