Yankees Pitching Situation

Some define insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Last year, the Yanks traded three prospects for Sonny Gray, who's been awful, and now some think they should try that again. The truth is, the Yanks haven't gotten a good pitcher at the deadline since David Cone in 1995.  Further, per Gray and the Yanks' other struggling pitchers: the Yanks do not seem to have a good support system for pitchers at the major league level.  Remember, Pedro fixed Sevy (pretty easily), and there's not much we can point to outside of Sevy.  Monty is injured, but had better stuff in AAA because the coaches had him using his lower half.  The success he's had with the Yanks has mostly been arm only.

The Yankee department that does seem to know pitching is the amateur scouting group. In recent years, they're picking good starters as well as pop up good starters every year.  Also, whoever they have a good team to help them down in EST and at the complex in Tampa, because so many of them are adding velo right after they join the Yanks. So, between the scouts and the reception comittee, the Yanks are finding and refining plenty of pitching talent.  Thus, the system remains their best chance of finding someone.  And fortunately, they already have.

Domingo German was an important piece in the Martin Prado/David Phelps swap. In fact, he was so happy to be a Yankee, he over pitched and needed TJS.  But now he's ready to help, and the proof is not so much in his starts but in his swing and miss stuff.  He's getting more swings and misses than anyone else on the staff and that's as good a guage as any with the inconsistent defense we've seen behind all of the pitchers this year. The deadline is about 2 months away, and that should give German time to prove he belongs.

If they need another pitcher, they've got Justus Sheffield, who's been flashing top of the rotqation stuff since he was in the AFL last fall.   Right now, after skipping a start, he's on a 75 pitch count, but, he really just needs to get his count back up to be ready.  He's no doubt already better than Sonny Gray, and his stuff would be top 3 (along with Severino and German).

So it's important that the Yanks become more pecunious with their prospects and give the ones they have lots of chances before punting a chunk of what's a big, wide open window for another fungible starter from somewhere else.

As per bullpen, AAA has them covered.