Bleeding Yankee Blue: HERE COMES RUSSELL BRANYAN

Thursday, June 14, 2012

HERE COMES RUSSELL BRANYAN

I had to fill ya'll in on this because I was very excited when the Yankees signed Russell Branyan to a minor league contract. Well, I was reading the a few instances recently where i noticed just how hot Branyan is in the minor leagues. I mean, he's literally tearing it up. In 36 at bats, Branyan has 13 hits. Of those hits 5 of them are homers, 4 of them are doubles and he has 16 RBIs. He's batting .361 in Scranton Wilkes-Barre.

Check out this report from the Times- Tribune from June 6th, Read HERE:

"Branyan hit the first of his two home runs in the sixth inning to make the score 9-5 but Durham answered with three runs in the bottom of the inning. Branyan then hit his second homer in the eighth inning to stretch the lead back to four." The Yankees beat the Durham Bulls that game 12-8.

This is another from the Citizensvoice.com from June 11th, read HERE:

Ronnier Mustelier and Russell Branyan came up with some powerful offense for the Yankees. Mustelier hit a two-out, solo home run in the first and Branyan hit his fifth home run of the year to bring the Yankees within 4-3 in the fifth inning."

This is the Scranton game from June 13th, read HERE:

"Russell Branyan had four runs batted in as the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees took the series finale, 9-7, beating Louisville on Tuesday morning."

It goes and on. he's been on fire and I can only imagine at this rate, the Yankees would like to see this guy back in the majors and producing. There are guys on the Yankees roster like Andruw Jones who hasn't exactly been outstanding, batting only .224 with 6 homers in 85 at bats. I'm not saying we cut the guy for Branyan, but let's face facts, if Branyan's this hot, there needs to be room for him and strike while the irons hot.

Food for thought....that's all I'm saying.

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