WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The Yankees should discover pitchers who can pitch this season.
Within the wake of a lat pressure that has knocked Luis Gil out for months and the elbow issues that Gerrit Cole himself referred to as “alarming,” two spots have opened within the Yankees rotation.
“That’s two big, big parts of our team,” supervisor Aaron Boone stated of Gil and Cole. “There’s no sugarcoating — that’s a blow.
“But it’s also a great opportunity for someone else and people that we believe in.”
Behind Max Fried, Carlos Rodón and Clarke Schmidt are Marcus Stroman and certain Will Warren.
The following wave contains Carlos Carrasco, a veteran who’s in camp on a non-roster invitation, Saturday starter Allan Winans and prospects equivalent to Sean Boyle and Cam Schlittler.
Warren, a strong prospect who debuted with out a lot success final season, has seemed like a brand new pitcher in camp.
He has struck out 11 and allowed two hits and one run in eight Grapefruit League innings.
“Could be,” Boone stated, earlier than the Yankees’ 5-2 loss to the Astros on the Park of the Palm Seashores, when requested if Warren was the following man up. “I really like how he seems to be. I really feel like there’s little doubt in my thoughts he has what it takes to be a profitable beginning pitcher on this league.
“Is that ready to be now? Sure looks like he’s gotten better over the winter. He’s gotten better this spring. So he’s put himself in the mix for that conversation.”
If not Warren, maybe Carrasco may win a rotation spot and roster spot.
The 15-year main leaguer has inspired this spring, by which his fastball velocity has ticked up a bit.
If neither, maybe Winans may shock. The Yankees claimed the righty off waivers from the Braves in January and efficiently snuck him by way of waivers.
The 29-year-old was a Seventeenth-round decide of the Mets in 2018 and brought by the Braves within the minor league Rule 5 draft earlier than the 2022 season. He appeared in eight main league video games with Atlanta the previous two seasons.
The Yankees made two extra camp cuts, reassigning righty Eric Reyzelman to minor league camp and optioning righty Michael Arias to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
