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Well, he’s still at AAA Scranton/Wilkes Barre, to be exact.

Right now, the Yankees might want to call AAA to fix their flat team.

The Bombers got bombed by the Rays last night, 10-6 (trailing 10-2 at one point,) and are now just 4-6 in their last 10, dropping to four games out of first.

To make matters worse, Jorge Posada is out three to four weeks with a broken foot, and Marcus Thames sprained his ankle while stepping on his own bat.

The injury bug has certainly caught up to the Yanks early this season. Which, realistically, is the only thing that could prevent them from winning another title.

Are the Rays seriously in first place if the Yankees were full strength? I don’t think so. 

So, whose the guy that gets the call down on the farm?

Drum roll please…

Chad Moeller! Are you kidding me?!?

This career scrub gets the call over the catching phenom, Jesus Montero?

Granted, Montero hasn’t performed to the best of his ability this year, posting mediocre numbers thus far with only three home runs and a .230 batting average. But just look at Francisco Cervelli, he wasn’t even hitting .200 when he got called up from AA early last season, now he’s hitting .370. 

So, why be hesitant towards the guy that is the future catcher of the New York Yankees, why not get him some experience with the big league team now?

He could begin to study some of the pitchers whom he will be catching in the future and Posada has plenty of time on his hands right now to help him.

Montero is young but has all the talent in the world and could, at least, be somewhat of a threat to opposing pitchers with his ability to hit the long ball.

But, I’m sure Chad Moeller can do better.

Here’s something to get you excited about Chad, this could be a milestone year for him, he’s only one shy of 30 CAREER home runs.

I wonder if the Yankees are going to put up a countdown to 30 for Chad, like A-Rod’s countdown to 600?

Maybe someone should suggest this promo to Brian Cashman, or suggest that Montero be on a plane to New York immediately!!!

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With an “A-Bomb” grand slam from A-Rod on Friday night, the great Mariano Rivera giving up a grand slam himself on Sunday, and Marcus Thames sinking Papelbon and the Sox on Monday, it has been a week of highs and lows for the Yanks thus far.

But through it all, the Yankees are starting to see some major production out of their once struggling sluggers.

Mark Teixeira, also known as Mr. May, has been on fire this month. He has five homers to go with 21 RBI and his average now stands at .224–at the end of April it was a lowly .195.

Tex is certainly making a strong case for player of the month, but so is his teammate Alex Rodriguez.

A-Rod has had some very clutch hits for the Yanks thus far, but none bigger than his 577th and 588th career home runs, which he hit in the past few games.

On Friday night against the Twins, A-Rod hit the go-ahead grand slam to give the Bombers the lead, en route to an 8-4 victory 

It was Monday night, with one out and Gardner at third, when A-Rod struck again with a game-tying blast to deep left in the bottom of the ninth. With two outs, Marcus Thames took Papelbon deep again to sink the Sox 11-9.

Although A-Rod has not experienced a slump to the magnitude of Teixeira’s in April, he did seem to be struggling for a stretch, but now leads the Yankees in RBI and is coming up with clutch hit after clutch hit.

Tex and A-Rod couldn’t have picked a better time to break out. The Yankees have several key injuries right now: Curtis Granderson has been out for a while and is still two weeks away from returning to the lineup, Nick Johnson had surgery on his left wrist (no surprise there), Jorge Posada has been dinged up, and Nick Swisher has been out with a bicep injury of late.

So the power strokes of A-Rod and Tex are coming back at the perfect time, as the Yankees try to take down the first place Rays when they welcome their Tampa rivals to the Bronx on Wednesday.

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