{"id":460010,"date":"2025-12-04T03:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T03:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/460010\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T03:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T03:23:11","slug":"yankees-cam-schlittler-wants-to-add-new-pitch-to-repertoire-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/460010\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees’ Cam Schlittler wants to add new pitch to repertoire in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cam Schlittler wants to build on his rookie year and add on it \u2014 literally. <\/p>\n

The Yankees right-hander said Wednesday that he\u2019s hoping to either have a changeup or splitter for the 2026 season, but is leaning toward the former.<\/p>\n

While boasting a five-pitch mix, Schlittler relied heavily on his fastball and wielded it 55 percent of the time during his rookie year. Outside of the heater, he primarily used a cutter (21 percent) and curve (15 percent) as his other options. <\/p>\n

\u201cAdding a changeup off a splitter, probably more leaning toward a changeup, might be easier for me,\u201d Schlittler said during an appearance on \u201cYankees Hot Stove\u201d on YES Network<\/a>. \u201cI think that\u2019s an important pitch to include because I didn\u2019t have that option down to lefties \u2014 or even righties as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schlittler said he started throwing three weeks ago and has begun to work on some grips and will really ramp up in a few weeks in Tampa. <\/p>\n

When pressed on why he would be tinkering with his pitch mix, Schlittler said his fastball is still his strength but that a changeup or splitter will help him \u201cneutralize\u201d certain counts.<\/p>\n

The Northeastern product became a bright spot in the Yankees\u2019 rotation in 2025, pitching to a 2.96 ERA with 80 strikeouts in 73 innings. <\/p>\n

His 12-strikeout, eight-inning masterpiece<\/a> in the deciding Game 3 of the wild-card series against the Red Sox proved to be one of the highs of not only his season, but the Yankees\u2019 year as a whole.<\/p>\n

\"CamCam Schlittler had an impressive rookie season with the Yankees. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n

Part of what helped him down the stretch was correcting a pitching-tipping issue that came to a head during a Sept. 5 start against the Blue Jays in which 24 of his 66 pitches were fouled off. <\/p>\n

Thanks to some help from the \u201cguru\u201d Gerrit Cole and lefty Carlos Rodon, Schlittler said he changed how he came to a set in the stretch without pumping his glove. There was even an adjustment in October that he made to truly ensure he wasn\u2019t giving away his offerings.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I got to playoffs, I started pre-gripping a changeup \u2014 I don\u2019t even have a changeup,\u201d Schlittler said. \u201cSo I started pre-gripping a changeup out of the windup, stretch just to kind of avoid tinkering with one pitching or sitting on one.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cam Schlittler wants to build on his rookie year and add on it \u2014 literally. The Yankees right-hander…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2376],"tags":[5,20455,4,1690,62,2548,2547,185,142,23254],"class_list":{"0":"post-460010","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-yankees","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cam-schlittler","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-yankees","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkyankees","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-yankees","17":"tag-yes-network"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115659158666338886","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}