Yanks have pitching problems, but enough to go to the Wells?

DETROIT -- No wonder David Wells is reportedly hinting of a comeback with the New York Yankees (not that they'll take him).

Kei Igawa started Friday night?

Darrell Rasner is set to go Saturday?

Who's next, Scott Kamieniecki?

New York's situation is dire, but not dire enough to sign David Wells -- yet. (AP)

You're probably sitting at home right now thinking what Wells is thinking. You see the Yankees, following a 6-5 loss in Detroit on Friday, wearing a bland, 18-19 record the way some folks wear bland, old T-shirts. You see the state of their pitching, ranked 10th in the American League with a 4.37 ERA.

And you might have even watched the Tigers play pin the baseball on Igawa on Friday, Placido Polanco smashing a liner off of Igawa's rear end just two batters into the game.

It got worse from there.

The Tigers led 6-1 when Igawa left with none out in the third. They went 11-for-19 against Igawa during his fleeting time on the hill.

Safe to say Igawa, in the rotation because Phil Hughes is hurt and Ian Kennedy dropped his opportunity, didn't meet manager Joe Girardi's expectations. Which were, the skipper was saying before the game, "to compete. To be down in the strike zone. I think that's what you ask from your starting pitcher every day."

Whoops.

No, you can't blame Wells for going coast-to-coast, telling the New York Post from his San Diego home that he has been working out and thinks he could help.

Nor can you blame Joba Chamberlain for exuberantly pumping his fist at the end of the eighth inning in New York's 6-3 win over Cleveland on Thursday, earning a subsequent verbal broadside from Cleveland outfield David Dellucci.

Hey, anytime this current Yankees pitching staff retires the opposition, it's cause for celebration.