Non Roster Invitees [Archive]

burritoballs

02-16-2009, 07:16 PM

Mariano_Rivera

02-17-2009, 10:31 AM

Which Non Roster Invitees do you think will contribute to the team this year, if any, heres my list

Kei Igawa
Jason Johnson
Sergio Mitre
Brett Tomko
Kevin Cash
Angel Berroa
Shelly Duncan
Justin Leone
Todd Linden
John Rodriguez

I guess Igawa could surprise us all and come up and do decent. Maybe he`s learned to pitch by now.

Johnson will probably be a non-factor. He`s to injury prone and hasn't had a decent year since 2005.

Sergio Mitre is a nice guy for depth but he was suspended for 50 games for using steroids and he`s got to be behind Hughes, Kennedy, Aceves, and maybe even Igawa. I think if they gave him a chance he`d be pretty good but I doubt he`ll get that shot.

Tomko has some decent periphereals. He could make the team as a Ramiro Mendoza type long man but he has a lot of guys ahead of him as well.

Kevin Cash has been too bad for to long for me to expect him to make an impact.

Berroa might get a few starts if Cano, Jeter, or A-Rod went down but I doubt he`d be very good.

The league figured out Shelley and I`d be shocked if he made the ML roster again. His swing is just to long and has to many holes to exploit.

Linden and Rodriguez both have some nice AAA stats and if the right combination of Swisher, Damon, Matsui, and Nady got hurt then either one could see some ML time andif they got hot, who knows?

NJYankeeFan

02-17-2009, 08:40 PM

Which Non Roster Invitees do you think will contribute to the team this year, if any, heres my list

Kei Igawa
Jason Johnson
Sergio Mitre
Brett Tomko
Kevin Cash
Angel Berroa
Shelly Duncan
Justin Leone
Todd Linden
John Rodriguez

Depends what is meant by contributions. Igawa and/or Tomko could log some innings. Igawa might even be useful.

Duncan could contribute as a lefty masher. He is good at that and might be useful in a platoon with Miranda if something really bad happens (Tex out for extended period)