The Yankees have requested that Melky Cabrera sits out the Carribean World Series.
“We’ve asked that he shut it down at this point. It’s been a long year for him,” Newman said Tuesday on a conference call to discuss the team’s top prospects. “We thought he needed some rest.”
Melky is 22 years old. How much rest does he need? His body is too young to break down from playing in the winter. Cabrera will not even play every day in 2007 barring injury. Getting him at bats against such quality competition would have only helped his development.
