The Edwardians

In his first appearance of the season, Edwar Ramirez, poster-child of the movement to inject saber-sense to the Yankee front office, pitched two innings of scoreless baseball. He'll almost certainly be sent back down in a matter of days, and that's really too bad. We're still waiting for any evidence that Bruney, Albaladejo, Traber, Ohlendorf are better at baseball than Edwar -- not to mention the more established due of Farnsworth and Hawkins.

It's quite a puzzle. The papers earnestly follow Shelly Duncan's mashfest in the IL. Beat writers cum bloggers refer to him as the "Babe Ruth of the IL"; in response fans clamor for his promotion. (His extraordinary stretch aside, Shelly Duncan's minor league numbers are more evocative of Ron Kittle than any other Yankee, past or present.) So why it is that when Edwar dominates in the minors -- which is something that, say, Russ Ohlendorf has never proven capable of -- he is overlooked?