Yankees sign Carlos Silva to minor league deal.

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Yankees Sign Carlos Silva

By Zach Links [April 9 at 2:35pm CST]

The Yankees have signed Carlos Silva, according to Jon Heyman of Sports Illustrated (via Twitter). It is a minor league deal, tweets Joel Sherman of the New York Post. The Yankees will be responsible only for the major league minimum if he is added to the big league roster, says Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports (via Twitter).

 

Silva, who turns 32 in two weeks, was released by the Cubs in late March. The club is on the hook for most of his $11.5MM salary and $2MM buyout for 2012. The Yanks weren't originally interested in the pitcher's services after the Cubs cut him loose, Jack Curry of the YES Network tweets, but they'll now take a look at him in light of Phil Hughes' recent struggles.

 

Early yesterday morning, Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports reported that the right-hander had offers from several teams and was on the cusp of choosing one. If Silva reaches the big league squad, he'll pitch under Larry Rothschild, his former pitching coach in Chicago.

 

 

Good luck in the toughest division in baseball. I see this as a short, rocky relationship. Ironically, had he not had a temper tantrum, and accepted the Cubs minor league assignment, hed be back in the big leagues, with the #4 starter job he claimed was already his going into ST.

[NCCubFan]

Somehow I stumbled onto this information, but Silva was released by the Yankees on July 2 and apparently has not been signed by another team yet.

[davearm2]

Not irony

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Not irony

 

It really is though. had he not had his tantrum because he did not want to pitch in the minors, and spent what would have turned out to be a single start in the minors, he would have been right back in the rotation as the #4 starter, the job he said was his to begin with. However, he chose to go for the greener pastures of the Yankess minor league team, which he never made it out of, and now he's doing nothing. But if that happened, we never would have got to experience the likes of Doug Davis, Ramon Ortiz, Rodrigo Lopez, and almost Dave Bush.

[NCCubFan]

Apparently the reason that he was released was he hurt his shoulder. He only pitched 7 games in the minors.