"Obviously this is an important time for us, so we don't want to miss him at all, but again, it's better than four," Girardi said. "Taking one game off could be really important for us. In a lot of instances, appeals don't happen for a while because the players aren't in town. In that sense we're at somewhat of a disadvantage because we're home every other week. I don't think there's ever a feeling that you luck out because we're going to miss a very good player for three games."