If baseball had an injury-free mode, setting a starting rotation would be pretty simple. Step 1) Pick your best five pitchers. Step 2) Let them take turns pitching every five days until the season ends or you trade for someone better. Of course, real life doesn’t work that way. Like any other team, the Yankees deal with injuries […]
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Finding the Yankees a Young Starting Pitcher
So far this offseason, the Yankees have focused on bolstering their batting order through trades for outfielder Aaron Hicks and infielder Starlin Castro. But now, with the team’s position-player alignment pretty much set (barring a trade of Brett Gardner) it is time to talk about pitching. If the season started tomorrow, the Yankees’ starting rotation […]