{"id":622612,"date":"2026-03-14T00:59:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T00:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/622612\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T00:59:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T00:59:13","slug":"its-easy-to-see-upside-in-dynamic-yankees-pitching-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/622612\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s easy to see upside in ‘dynamic’ Yankees pitching staff"},"content":{"rendered":"

NORTH PORT, Fla. \u2014 Tim Naehring has lived through the highs of Gerrit Cole and the lows of Kei Igawa. CC Sabathia fronting a championship and the hype, hope and quick fizzle that was Deivi Garcia.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In 19 seasons with the Yankees, 11 as vice president of baseball operations, Naehring has helped form many permutations of the rotation. And so it resonates when he says this is the best he has felt about a group as a season approaches because of \u201cThe top-end talent, depth and prospects coming. \u2026 This could be a very dynamic pitching staff that has impact and depth.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Of course, Naehring adds the proviso about both the need for general health of those pitching right now and that the positive rehab progressions of Cole, Carlos Rod\u00f3n and Clarke Schmidt continue<\/a>. Because depth can evaporate quickly when it comes to pitching.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Braves have lost three starters<\/a> since the outset of spring training \u2014 Joey Wentz (knee) for the season and Spencer Schwellenbach (elbow) and Hurston Waldrep (elbow) for at least half a season. This from a rotation that already had lots of injury-history concerns with ace Chris Sale, Grant Holmes, Reynaldo L\u00f3pez and Spencer Strider.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORTH PORT, Fla. \u2014 Tim Naehring has lived through the highs of Gerrit Cole and the lows of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2376],"tags":[5,2281,4,1690,62,2548,2547,1073,185,430,428,151,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-622612","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-gerrit-cole","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-yankees","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkyankees","15":"tag-ryan-weathers","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sports-columnists","18":"tag-sports-plus","19":"tag-spring-training","20":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116224823490083423","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622612","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=622612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}