Tom Haudricourt just tweeted that Fiers is likely to start Tuesday, although nothing is official yet. Link: http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/154806805.html?ipad=y#!page=0&pageSize=10&sort=newestfirst
The ESPN story at the time painted Cordero and Mench relatively equally. Tone of the article suggests that Cruz wasn't a throwaway, however, a clear gaffe by Melvin in my view. ESPN story