Happy Sunday. The Yankees are trying to avoid getting swept by the last-place Tigers today (yikes), and they needed some fresh arms after Deivi García and Albert Abreu handled the entire forgettable game on Saturday. Both pitchers were sent back to Triple-A Scranton, and to fill their spots, the Yankees made two moves.
The less interesting one is that Nick Nelson was brought back. Given that Nelson was smoked in his six-game stint in the bigs earlier this year (9.72 ERA, 1.920 WHIP) and has only been so-so in six outings with Scranton (3.09 ERA with a better 0.