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- Updated: July 21, 2016
NEW YORK — Chad Green’s rookie season has been an interesting one.
His time spent in the Minors has been spectacular, where he’s the Triple-A International League’s leader in both ERA (1.41) and WHIP (0.90). But his time in the Majors has been complicated, as he’s been asked to wear a variety of different hats. He’s started, he’s worked out of the bullpen, and he’s even been asked to hit a couple of times.
Thursday morning, Green was called up yet again, his fourth callup of the season. (As a counter-move, the Yankees optioned Nick Goody to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.) But this time, Green said he’s not even sure what hat he’s going to be asked to wear. Green said upon arriving that he had “no clue” whether he was going to be starting or coming out of the bullpen this time around.
And though Yankees manager Joe Girardi gave an answer to the question, he eventually wavered on how concrete his plan is.
“He’s in there for the bullpen,” Girardi said. “Without having [Dellin Betances] today, we wouldn’t have Nick Goody, [Anthony Swarzak] is limited. We felt we needed a right-handed reliever that could either give us distance or give us some shortness.”
That said, Girardi conceded that there is a chance that if Green isn’t used Thursday he and the …
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