Why Yankees called up their other minor league help

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David Hale doesn’t have the profile Gleyber Torres does, but the right-handed pitcher does have one thing in common with the Yankees’ top position player prospect: They each arrived in The Bronx on Sunday. Hale, a 30-year-old right-hander, was summoned from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre to provide depth for a bullpen that has been leaned on heavily. In three starts with the RailRiders, Hale went 0-1 with a 5.52 ERA. He was signed as a minor league free agent in late January. “He gives us length,’’ Aaron Boone said of Hale, who was a third-round pick of the Braves out of Princeton in 2009, before the Yankees’ 5-1 win over the Blue Jays at Yankee Stadium. “As much as [Jordan Montgomery] picked

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