Spring Training is fast approaching, just over two weeks away. I thought this would be a good time to take a look at the Yankees pitching staff. The Yankees have seven starting pitchers for five spots. As of right now they didn’t make any trades to change that and don’t appear like they are going too. The old saying is you never can have enough pitching and it does seem to always work itself out. I want to take a look at this and see how it breaks down and what possibly the Yankees can do about this surplus of pitchers.
The Yankees ace is CC Sabathia. He is a great pitcher and an even better person. CC is here for the long term and should retire a Yankee. I wouldn’t expect much less then 200+ innings, a 3 or so ERA and plenty of wins. The number two pitcher would seem to be Michael Pineda who the Yankees gave away their top positional prospect for. Pineda has all the tools and plenty of potential. The problem with Pineda of course is that he has only bee...
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PLAYERS:
CC Sabathia,
Michael Pineda,
Ivan Nova,
Hiroki Kuroda,
AJ Burnett,
Phil Hughes,
Freddy Garcia
TEAMS: New York Yankees
TEAMS: New York Yankees
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