The Yankees are in a pretty fortunate position in terms of their starting pitching at the moment. Max Fried and Cam Schlittler have been superb leading the rotation, easing the pressure on the rehabbing Gerrit Cole and Carlos Rod\u00f3n. Unless he can turn the clock back to the first half of 2024 in his next few starts, it seems straightforward that the already-skipped Luis Gil will be odd man out (assuming health) once Rod\u00f3n is ready to return. But what about after that, when Cole is ready? On a rotation of this many veterans, they probably wouldn\u2019t want to be a six-man rotation, so it becomes a discussion of Ryan Weathers vs. Will Warren.<\/p>\n
The first thing to acknowledge from the jump is that the Yankees will be truly fortunate if their overall rotation health is still this intact by then. Baseball has a funny little way of working these questions out in before they go beyond the world of the hypothetical. This is a \u201cproblem\u201d that the Yankees would give anything to have in front of them.<\/p>\n
So we don\u2019t need to do a full breakdown of the Weathers vs. Warren question and indeed, don\u2019t expect to see one at PSA for at least a little bit; there will be even more data to include in the considerations by the time their hand is theoretically forced, too. Consider this more of a personal check-in on how you\u2019re feeling about them. Both pitchers have hads ups and downs in the early offing, but both look to have sky-high potential at their best.<\/p>\n
They each just had great starts against Kansas City too, with Warren striking out 11 in a seven-inning, two-run effort on Saturday<\/a> and Weathers throwing 7.1 scoreless with eight K\u2019s yesterday<\/a>. I think my gut leans Weathers, but it\u2019s super close! What do you think? Again, I\u2019m quite glad that they don\u2019t have to make a decision just yet.<\/p>\n Today on the site, Peter will run through some now-familiar early-2026 results in the Rivalry Roundup, Kento will make the case that the Yankees\u2019 bullpen will probably be fine, and Sam will celebrate the 65th birthday of all-time, no-doubt Yankees legend: Donald Arthur Mattingly. Later, Madison will have the mailbag prompt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Yankees are in a pretty fortunate position in terms of their starting pitching at the moment. Max…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2376],"tags":[5,4,1690,62,2548,2547,7660,3997,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-679753","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-mlb","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-yankees","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkyankees","14":"tag-pinstripe-alley-discussions","15":"tag-today-on-pinstripe-alley","16":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116437155895800973","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679753","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=679753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}