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Latest On Yankees’ Rotation

By Connor Byrne | February 12, 2020 at 9:58pm CDT

The Yankees’ rotation looked set when the month of February started, but the back surgery left-hander James Paxton recently underwent threw a wrench in their plans. They’re now lacking an obvious answer after Gerrit Cole, Luis Severino, Masahiro Tanaka and J.A. Happ. The team will give plenty of hurlers chances to emerge as its No. 5 during spring training, though, as Bryan Hoch of MLB.com relays.

General manager Brian Cashman on Wednesday named five pitchers – Luis Cessa, Deivi Garcia, Jonathan Loaisiga, Michael King and Jordan Montgomery – as candidates to take the last spot in New York’s rotation. The leader may be the 27-year-old Montgomery, who had an impressive rookie campaign in 2017 but hasn’t been much of a factor since then because of injury troubles. Montgomery underwent Tommy John surgery in June 2018 after throwing a mere 27 1/3 innings that year, though he did make a late-season return to a major league mound in 2019. Manager Aaron Boone said Wednesday that Montgomery’s now “in a good place” with respect to his health.

As for Montgomery’s competition, Cessa and Loaisiga have each garnered a decent amount of experience at the game’s highest level. Cessa’s heater checks in around 95 mph, but it hasn’t led to great results in the majors. He’s the owner of a 4.50 ERA/4.98 FIP with 7.37 K/9 and 2.91 BB/9 in 232 career innings. Most of his work (67 of 86 appearances) has come as a reliever. Cessa is out of minor league options, so he could end up in another organization if he doesn’t make the Yankees this spring.

Loaisiga can throw even harder than Cessa (96-97 mph), and he’s a former top-100 prospect, but his MLB production hasn’t been special, either. While Loaisiga recorded a tremendous strikeout rate of 11.18 per nine in his first 56 1/3 innings as a Yankee from 2018-19, he walked almost five per nine and only registered a 4.79 ERA/4.33 FIP. Moreover, the right-hander dealt with shoulder problems last season.

Neither Garcia nor King has appeared in the majors yet, but there’s plenty of promise in the two cases. FanGraphs’ Eric Longenhagen ranked the 20-year-old Garcia as the game’s 42nd-best prospect Wednesday, calling the 5-foot-10, 163-pounder  “a diminutive firecracker righty with a beautiful curveball.” However, because of his size, there are questions about Garcia’s durability. He also didn’t put up great numbers last year as an extremely young Triple-A pitcher, as he managed a subpar 5.40 ERA/5.77 FIP with 10.13 K/9 and 4.5 BB/9 over 40 innings at the level.

King, 24, racked up a combined 62 2/3 innings in Triple-A from 2018-19, pitching to a sterling 2.30 ERA with 8.5 K/9 and 1.7 BB/9 in that span. He even made a one-appearance MLB debut last season, and currently ranks as the Yankees’ 19th-best prospect at MLB.com.

Considering how volatile the back end of most teams’ rotations are, it’s entirely possible (maybe even likely) that more than one of the above hurlers will start games for the Yankees as they await Paxton’s return. The World Series hopefuls figure to get Paxton back early in the summer, so those who wind up filling his spot could be on borrowed time in that role.

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Comments

  1. rossf

    2 years ago

    King actually has appeared in the majors, although easy to miss as it was only 2 innings…

    Reply
    • 123Redsox

      2 years ago

      Same thing I was about to comment! 1 game, 2 innings!

      Reply
  2. AtlSoxFan

    2 years ago

    Just can’t catch a break with paxton

    Reply
    • 123Redsox

      2 years ago

      He had a bad injury history in Seattle. It is no shock

      Reply
      • dynamite drop in monty

        2 years ago

        As opposed to those good injury histories

        Reply
        • Begamin

          2 years ago

          a good injury history would be one with not a lot of injuries, idk why youre being a bit of a smart alec here

  3. Russianblue35

    2 years ago

    Montgomery is the front runner for that last spot

    Reply
    • toptekjon

      2 years ago

      Yep. Barring injury, I’d say he’s a lock. He was very good as a rookie. Should be fully healthy now. I think he’ll be a great 3 or 4 in the very near future.

      Reply
  4. Sonny42

    2 years ago

    Yankess will also have back the guy thats suspened also and hes pitched good for them

    Reply
    • bballblk

      2 years ago

      Yeah, but German still has to serve 63 more games of his suspension…by the time he’s eligible to return Paxton should theoretically be close to return as well. German won’t factor into New York’s early-season rotation plans.

      Reply
      • Melchez

        2 years ago

        Can German play in the minors during the suspension? If not, he’s going to have to spend a little time in the minors to get ready for the majors. Probably wouldn’t take long… as long as he stays ready. Maybe 2 or 3 starts at AAA just to make sure he’s ready. That’s like an additional 15 to 20 days.

        Reply
        • bballblk

          2 years ago

          Yes, they’re usually allowed to play in minor league “rehab” games a couple of weeks or so before their suspension is technically up.

        • jonnyzuck

          2 years ago

          I think I remember hearing about players do rehab stints while still suspended so I believe so

        • Melchez

          2 years ago

          That makes sense. Otherwise it’s actually an 80 game suspension.

        • Kemajic

          2 years ago

          It was an 80 game suspension; he served 17 last fall.

      • emac22

        2 years ago

        Since both would have innings caps this could all be a blessing.

        German and Paxton at full strength for the playoffs and extra innings for a large group of prospects over the first couple of months.

        Perfect timing with Tanaka, Paxton and Happ all being free agents. The question is how good would the young guys have to be to trade the free agents at the deadline…

        Reply
        • Kemajic

          2 years ago

          The Yankee’s season is the post season so they’re not going to have a “for sale” sign out at the deadline.

    • Kemajic

      2 years ago

      Good? He won 18 through early September.

      Reply
      • Melchez

        2 years ago

        Don’t talk about wins… these cyber guys think wins mean nothing… it’s how much spinny the put on the bally thingy.

        Reply
        • dynamite drop in monty

          2 years ago

          Lol you’re so dumb

        • Gasu1

          2 years ago

          LOL, if ya don’t like them newfangled “analytucks”, then take a gander at his 4.03 ERA there.

  5. LouisianaAstros

    2 years ago

    Hopefully they don’t tip the pitches like they have been.
    Was pretty easy to see what was coming

    Reply
    • 22jclark

      2 years ago

      Bang, bang goes the trash can. Or just buzzzzzzzzz along until you get your pitch. Word craft, my peeps.

      Reply
      • LouisianaAstros

        2 years ago

        Not too hard when your have a catcher who should be playing DH.

        Reply
        • adamontheshore

          2 years ago

          Stop being a troll. You have to have better things to do.

        • Kemajic

          2 years ago

          Wait until he tries to catch Cole’s stuff.

        • whynot

          2 years ago

          The guy is from Louisiana, he definitely has nothing better to do

  6. jorge78

    2 years ago

    Uh, King has appeared in the majors…..

    Reply
  7. Rsox

    2 years ago

    Yankees managed to go all of last season without Cessa making a start and were probably better off for it. Jordan Montgomery if healthy likely gets the 5th spot in the rotation.

    Reply
  8. howie feltersnatch

    2 years ago

    ⬆️⬆️. This dude didn’t go there Anyway. They can always start Chad green and finish with the bullpen

    Reply
  9. brucenewton

    2 years ago

    That rotation is still crappy sorry

    Reply
    • Kemajic

      2 years ago

      Most teams would love to have Cole, Severino and Tanaka at the top. Really crappy.

      Reply
      • yukongold

        2 years ago

        That’s not the Severino and Tanaka of from 3 years ago.

        Reply
  10. Richs

    2 years ago

    Maybe a 4 team deal can be worked out with yankees dodgers cubs and nats can be worked out where

    Yankees end up with Davis and Feddie
    Nats Joc
    Cubs anjuar (sp) plus others including stripling and other minor leaguers
    Dodgers Minor leaguers and picks

    This is a starting point

    Reply
    • Badfinger

      2 years ago

      Starting point for what?

      Reply
  11. Richs

    2 years ago

    Meant to say yankees get Bryant in 4 team trade

    Reply
    • Rsox

      2 years ago

      Yankees have Urshela and Andujar, and can also slide Torres or LeMahieu over to 3B. Unless Bryant is open to learning how to pitch very, very quickly trading for him would be pointless

      Reply
  12. RickEO

    2 years ago

    Lotta questions in YANKEES rotation

    Reply
  13. oneiblnd

    2 years ago

    Where are they with Domingo German?

    Reply
    • lowereastsider

      2 years ago

      He’s suspended for 63 games and eligible for return on June 6.

      Reply
  14. lordd99

    2 years ago

    Montgomery is the obvious 5th starter and a good one at that. He’s back and recovered from TJS. Paxton will be back in May, German in June.

    Reply
  15. mlbnyyfan

    2 years ago

    Thought Yankees should give Matt Harvey a minor league deal. Never have enough pitching

    Reply
  16. lowereastsider

    2 years ago

    I say let them duke it out for #5. I wonder how long Happ’s leash is if he can’t regain form coming out of the gate. Wouldn’t mind seeing opener Green > Happ (3+ IP) > reliever as a stopgap until German returns.

    Reply
  17. Stevie E. B.

    2 years ago

    Yankees should trade for Price…

    Reply
  18. brucenewton

    2 years ago

    A lot of bad teams in the AL still. They should be fine until late in the year/October.

    Reply

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