AP: Yankees may go with 3-man rotation against Angels

NEW YORK — The Yankees may go with a three-man rotation against the Los Angeles Angels in the AL championship series. CC Sabathia is scheduled to start Friday night’s opener, with A.J. Burnett and Andy Pettitte and New York’s other two primary starters. The shortened rotation would allow manager Joe Girardi to keep Joba Chamberlain and Chad Gaudin in the bullpen. “In the 10-day forecast that I looked at, it looks like we have some rain in the forecast, so that can change things,” Girardi said Tuesday during a conference call. “But we are definitely considering possibly going to a three-man rotation in this round, but we’ll have to take a look at it and see how it goes.” Seems smart to me.  Although we don’t have much of a sample size, Sabathia showed last year that he could be effective on three days rest, going 21.2 innings and allowing 15 hits, 6 runs and 4 BBs while striking out 21.