According to Jack Curry of the YES Network, Manny Banuelos has been (or will be) promoted to Triple-A Scranton for his next start, which would come on Tuesday in one of the games of their doubleheader with Lehigh Valley.

Banuelos, the Yankees' top prospect, was 5-4 with a 3.59 ERA in 95 1/3 innings of work in Double-A this year. He's missed a little time with blister issues, but otherwise has had a clean bill of health.

Banuelos is still in the building and has not been informed of his promotion. I'll have comments from him later on in the afternoon.

UPDATE: Got this a little earlier, but wanted to hold for confirmation. Brackman will be active, despite what I heard this morning. I assume this was a recent change. Betances and Montero, however, are still inactive.

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UPDATE: Just got off the phone with Damon Oppenheimer, who says that Jesus Montero will be joining Betances and Brackman in New York. Like the other two, Montero will be inactive while up there.

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Just got off the phone with Mark Newman, and here's the scoop:

Per the New York Post report this morning, Andrew Brackman is headed to New York to get a taste of life in the big leagues. He will do drills with the coaches and experience what it's like to be in a big league pennant race.

What the Post didn't have, however, is that Dellin Betances will be joining his (slightly) taller teammate. Betances told me just before the Thunder's exit from the playoffs that he will be participating in the instructional leagues, but only to work on his defense.

Both made the best of what could have been seen as pivotal seasons, as far as their overall development was concerned. Below are audio clips from both men from just before the season ended. I spoke with them about their seasons, their turnarounds and whether they expected to be in Double-A in 2010.

UPDATE: Per the man himself, Andrew Brackman says he has not been promoted to the Yankees, nor has he heard that it will happen. He is currently at home in Ohio.

On Sept. 14, Andrew Brackman pitched in relief of Andy Pettitte. If you'd told Brackman that night that he'd be sharing a big league clubhouse with Pettitte less than a week later, I'm sure he would have called you every kind of crazy in the book.

And yet, according to Cincinnati.com, it's true.

If so -- and I'm working on confirmation -- then it represents one heck of a turnaround from his horrific 2009 season, during which he went 2-12 with a 5.91 ERA. He was even pushed to the bullpen at one point to get himself straightened out.

This season, however, after a brief blip in the early going, things took a 180 for the 6-foot-10 former first-rounder.

He finished 2010 with an 11-10 mark, a 3.90 ERA and 126 strikeouts over 140 2/3 frames. Moreover, his stuff looked incredible, with the culmination coming in Game 1 of the Eastern League Championship Series. In relief of Pettitte that night, Brackman twirled five one-hit innings and earned what turned out to be the Thunder's last win of the season.

Now, as a member of the 40-man roster, he'll get a chance to pitch in another pennant race. This time, however, the stakes are much higher.

The Thunder just got word from the front office that Hector Noesi, one of the organization's top pitching prospects and the Tampa ace, has been promoted to Double-A. He is tentatively scheduled to start on Friday against Portland.

This explains the move of Ryan Pope to the bullpen, and fills the empty spot vacated by Josh Schmidt.

With Tampa, Noesi was 5-2 with a 2.72 ERA in eight starts. He struck out 53 in 43 innings and walked just six.

Much more on the promotion later.