Even though the New York Yankees acquired Marcus Stroman during this off-season, their main gap is still found in the starting rotation.
Indeed, the Bombardiers still have a high risk of injuries within their starting corps, notably with Carlos Rodon and Nestor Cortes, in addition to not having a real number two behind Gerrit Cole.
Despite everything, manager Aaron Boone believes that his boss Brian Cashman has done a good job of filling the lack of depth caused, among other things, by the transaction that brought Juan Soto to the Bronx.
We have Will Warren, Chase Hampton, Clayton Beeter and Luis Gil returning from injury this year. We are very excited about the signing of Cody Poteet, we think there is a lot of potential from a depth standpoint. And obviously we brought back Luke Weaver to be kind of the sixth starter depending on what's needed. I feel like we've rebuilt some of that depth, six to 11 if you will.
We salute here the positivism of skipperbut unfortunately it will be far from enough for the New York team.
Weaver, a former first-round draft pick, had a 5.14 ERA during his eight seasons in the MLB.
For his part, Poteet pitched in 19 games, including nine starts, with the Miami Marlins in 2021 and 2022 before undergoing Tommy John surgery.
Speaking of Tommy John type surgery, Gil also had to undergo one in 2022.
So for depth, we will go back to Aaron. General manager Cashman must therefore find a way to add a quality arm into the Yankees rotation.
