Manny Banuelos Scratched From Today's Start

Written by Greg Fertel | 11 April 2010

Josh Norris of The Trentonian is reporting that Yankees' pitching prospect Manny Banuelos has been scratched from his start down in Tampa. Norris speculates that this could be injury-related or could suggest that he is being promoted to Trenton to take Christian Garcia's rotation spot.

I hate to be pessimistic, but I would guess it's injury related. Banuelos has never started a game in High-A ball, and I doubt that the Yankees would rush the 19-year-old to Double-A so quickly. If someone from the Tampa rotation is going to Trenton, I would think that it would be Hector Noesi. Hopefully it's nothing too serious, but my very uneducated guess is that there's some sort of injury here.

Update (4:07 PM): Lance Pendleton will take Garcia's spot and is starting on tuesday. This rules out Banuelos being called up; I'll update you when I find out more.