Nova, who is 10-4 on the year and has been getting better for some time now, pitched 7 2/3 innings of one-run baseball (a run that could probably have been avoided, frankly) over what is admittedly a light-hitting Chicago White Sox lineup. Since returning from a minor league assignment, he has had two starts and won them both, pitching well both times.
Burnett, not so much.
The overpriced pitcher, initially seen as a legitimate No. 2 starter behind CC Sabathia, has spent the last season and a half pitching himself into Ed Whitson territory, and his inability to hang in with a 12-run lead Wednesday night was not, shall we say, encouraging. It's financial reality, not baseball reality, that keeps him in the starting rotation.
Right now, the Yankee rotation in order of fan confidence would probably go: Sabathia (by a very wide margin), Colon, Garcia, Nova, Hughes, Burnett. You have to wonder if Joe Girardi and Brian Cashman feel the same way. And yet, news is expected later today that Nova will be heading back to the minors because Burnett is owed large buckets of money.
It's not a perfect world.
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