Another Answer

BGW is off to the Stadium tonight for the game, so I thought I'd really try and find the answer he'd been seeking on Bubba Crosby. that way he could browbeat anyone he chose in his section. He wanted to know what the designation for assignment meant in the gradn scheme of things. Was Crosby always and forever finished as a Yankee now that he cleared waivers and accepted (as he had to) assignment to Columbus. Could we see bubba back, BGW asked, when the rosters expand come September. The definitve answer is we could see him back, but we probably won't. In order for the Yankees to call Bubba up in September, or indeed at any point in the future, they will need to designate someone else on their active roster for assignment. It is not, as I understand it, merely eneough to remove someone fron=m the active roster by way of the DL, for example, or by being optioned back to the minors. They must themselves be designated. So having been pronounced a "luxury" ("He could pinch run. you could put him in center field.") by a man, slow Joe, without a grasp on the necessity late inning defense, among other things, we have probably seen the last of Bubba, almost certainly for this year.