ESPN.com: MLB – Wednesday’s roundup: Piazza out with knee injury

ESPN.com: MLB – Wednesday’s roundup: Piazza out with knee injury

Yeah, Piazza’s hurt. But he’ll be back in a day or two. The real story is Brooks Kieschnick, who was sent to Triple-A to start the season, got bombed as a pitcher, was oh-fer-nine as a hitter, and still got promoted.

It seems like a great story until the line that goes ” He is the first major league player to make the switch since Ron Mahay, an outfielder with Boston in 1995 before pitching for four major league teams from 1997 to 2002.”

I mean, Mahay was a good story until he actually started pitching, and then it was a simply a race who would appear in the bigs last: Mahay or Ricky Bones.

And doesn’t it seem curious that there was no talk ever of using Mahay as a pinch-hitter, the way Kieschnick’s versatility seems so integral a part of the Brewers’ plan?