February 26, 2012
by Brien Jackson
Chris Dickerson cleared waivers today, and the Yankeees have announced that he’s cleared waivers and been outrighted to Triple-A Scranton-Wilkes Barre, which is sort of surprising. Not that Dickerson was waived, the Yankees don’t have any room for him on the big league roster and he’s out of options, but that he wasn’t claimed by another team. He is a viable fourth outfielder who can handle right handed pitching reasonably well, so you’d figure there’d be a number of teams he’d fit in with. Then again, the Yankees acquired him for Sergio Mitre, so this is, at most, only the second most ignominious moment of his professional career.
I hope he makes it back; his homer last year against Felix is a good memory.
I could foresee him this year if Ibanez's batting average is below .200 by June. He can platooon with Andruw Jones by letting Swisher DH and putting him in RF….until trade deadline comes and Cashman acquires some other cranked up veteran.
I like the Yanks' timing. Right now every team is full of players with some amount of potential. I can see where they don't have room to grab Dickerson. If the Yanks had done this later in spring training, some team with injured outfielders might have had a need for Dickerson and grabbed him.