OK, I've been meaning to bump this, and now it's even more relevant with Kluber out for a few months. This time I am going to add the minor league rotations as I've done in previous years, top prospects have a *.
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Cole
(Kluber) (August?)
German
(Severino) (July?)
Montgomery
Taillon
Garcia
(Schmidt) (July?)
King
AAA: Mike Montgomery, Nestor Cortes, Nick Green, Brian Keller, Brady Koerner (none of these guys are prospects, although Nasty Nestor has been great in AAA so far)
AA: *Luis Gil, *Glenn Otto, Matt Krook, Janson Junk, Shawn Semple
high A: *Luis Medina, *Ken Waldichuk, *Hayden Wesneski, Jhony Brito, ???
low A: *Matt Sauer, Randy Vasquez, Sean Boyle, Jhonatan Munoz, *Beck Way
in limbo: *Alexander Vizcaino, *Yoendrys Gomez, *TJ Sikkema, *Osiel Rodriguez
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So with three of their top nine guys out, who would be next up? King is already likely going this weekend, but who is after him? Good question, let's take a look.
Mike Montgomery turns 32 in July and is best known for getting the final out of the 2016 WS for the Cubs. He has been horrendous in AAA so far this year, though (7.56 ERA in 4 starts), so hopefully not him.
Next we have the former Yankees who could maybe come up for a 3-4 inning gig, Adam Warren and Nestor Cortes Jr, both have been great in AAA so far but neither are really starters although they may be trying to stretch Cortes out a bit, he made his first start of the season on Tuesday, 4 4 0 0 0 3. Cortes is possible and probably NY's current #7 unless there's someone I'm forgetting.
Next is the exciting duo in AA, Luis Gil and Glenn Otto. Gil is already on the 40 man, Otto will need to be after this season, and both are in the top 7 among all minor league pitchers in strikeouts so far this year (Medina is also, NY has 3 of the top 7). Gil is on the 40 man but Otto is older, either of these guys could get the call if NY needs to dig deeper.
Looking at this, I would guess at some point, NY would start to bump the organizational guys in the AAA rotation and move other guys up, as Gil, Otto, Medina, and Waldichuk all should probably be promoted. NY also really needs to get Schmidt and Vizcaino and Gomez pitching ASAP, all are on the 40 man and all have not pitched in 'real' games since 2019.