New year, new manager, same pitching struggles for the New York Yankees. Young guns Phil Hughes and Ian Kennedy have both exited the rotation - Hughes with a rib cage injury and Kennedy with a demotion to Triple-A Scranton - which leaves New York searching for some answers. They’re hoping to find them in a familiar face (and huge question mark) as 28-year old lefty Kei Igawa will likely be called up from Scranton this week.

Igawa is expected to start in Kennedy’s place either Friday or Saturday, according to the New York Daily News Yankees Blog. Darrell Rasner already took Hughes’ place in the rotation and proceeded to finish the Yankees’ sweep of the Seattle Mariners with six effective innings on Sunday. Read more »

Most major league teams are 15 games or so into their seasons, and everything is beginning to settle down. Each team has had their “Opening Day” at home, and while some teams look like they left their bats in Florida (ahem, Detroit), others look to be in mid-season form, like the Diamondbacks.

Looking around the league many things appear to be normal, however one can’t help but notice how many players have gotten hurt already.

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