NJ.com's Colin Stephenson reported yesterday that prior to yesterday's game Nady made "a bunch of throws" from what he thought was 100 feet, and then detailed the rest of his workout:
... then went to right field where Thompson hit him a bunch of grounders where he had to field the ball and throw to second.
After that, Nady went back near the warning track and Thompson hit balls into the right field corner, with Nady going in there to pick the ball up, wheel and throw to a cutoff man stationed just onto the outfield grass. Everything looked fine to me.
Stephenson also reported that Joe Girardi wants to see Nady throw again today before the team decides what to do next. He could head down to Tampa to continue his rehab or he could remain with the team. Make sure you check out tonight's game thread to for any updates on Nady from today's pregame workout.
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If he can play the field it would definitely be a plus for the upcoming NL road games (and we can finally DFA Berroa!)
Jay
Good to hear. Hopefully they will get rid of Berroa when he comes back.
Until Nady is ready to throw at near full strength, they shouldn't bring him up yet. No sense in bringing him up too early. Let him get healthy first. The last thing we need is another DH or rag armed outfielder.
I'd rather see Nady on the bench than Berroa. He does nothing anyway. Nady can just keep working out with the team.
I'm not advocating keeping Berroa on the team. I don't quite get why we don't have someone better than him here.
But I just don't want to see the Yanks rush Nady now and regret bringing him back too early as they did with Wang.
Off topic but I just read Farnsworth got bitten on his non-throwing hand while breaking up a fight between his two dogs.
He actually has a dog named Strike.
Seems this is the only strike Farnsworth has that has any movement. lol
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/Break-it-up-It-s-a-dog-eat-reliever-world-for-K?urn=mlb,170834
Just saw the back of the daily news. MELKY DID NOT MAKE THAT CATCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anon,
Oh well, what can you do. At least the break finally went in the Yanks direction.
I was at the game last night and where I was between home and the dugout, I swore he didn't catch it because I saw too much ball.
But I watched the video today and I am convinced that he definitely did. Plus the ump was right there.
Watch the video here, especially the replay in slow motion. Melky definitely makes the grab.
http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=5084643&c_id=nyy
If that link doesn't bring up the right video, the Melky catch video will be below it.
This link should work.
http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=5071899&c_id=nyy
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