OK, with about 10 days until Opening Day, here is my guess at the current Yankee SP depth chart, including the entire system. Once guys get assigned in the next few weeks, I will update, but for now:
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Cole
Montgomery
Taillon
Severino
Cortes
(German)
AAA: *Deivi Garcia, *Luis Gil, *Clarke Schmidt, *Luis Medina, *JP Sears, Matt Krook, Shelby Miller
AA: *Ken Waldichuk, *Hayden Wesneski, *Randy Vasquez, Jhony Brito, Shawn Semple, Sean Boyle
high A: *Yoendrys Gomez,, *Matt Sauer, *Beck Way, Mitch Spence. Josh Maciejewski
low A: *TJ Sikkema, *Brock Selvidge, *Justin Lange, *Tyrone Yulie, Jhonatan Munoz, Nicio Rodriguez, Will Warren, Richard Fitts
FCL: *Osiel Rodriguez
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The obvious issue is someone stepping forward behind Cole as a strong #2, but overall the depth in the organization at SP currently is very impressive, to the point where I think NY might need to move some of these guys. Cortes was great in 2021, earning 2.8 bWAR in just 93 innings pitched. His velocity was up a few MPH also, really allowing him to utilize his pitching smarts, glad that he will get a shot to start the season.
The exciting thing right now is that 6/7/8 are likely some version of Garcia/Gil/Schmidt (Michael King maybe in there too, maybe left as the long guy) and all three look awesome right now, 1 ER allowed between them in 12 innings,all with great velocity and spin rates.
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Cole
Montgomery
Taillon
Severino
Cortes
(German)
AAA: *Deivi Garcia, *Luis Gil, *Clarke Schmidt, *Luis Medina, *JP Sears, Matt Krook, Shelby Miller
AA: *Ken Waldichuk, *Hayden Wesneski, *Randy Vasquez, Jhony Brito, Shawn Semple, Sean Boyle
high A: *Yoendrys Gomez,, *Matt Sauer, *Beck Way, Mitch Spence. Josh Maciejewski
low A: *TJ Sikkema, *Brock Selvidge, *Justin Lange, *Tyrone Yulie, Jhonatan Munoz, Nicio Rodriguez, Will Warren, Richard Fitts
FCL: *Osiel Rodriguez
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The obvious issue is someone stepping forward behind Cole as a strong #2, but overall the depth in the organization at SP currently is very impressive, to the point where I think NY might need to move some of these guys. Cortes was great in 2021, earning 2.8 bWAR in just 93 innings pitched. His velocity was up a few MPH also, really allowing him to utilize his pitching smarts, glad that he will get a shot to start the season.
The exciting thing right now is that 6/7/8 are likely some version of Garcia/Gil/Schmidt (Michael King maybe in there too, maybe left as the long guy) and all three look awesome right now, 1 ER allowed between them in 12 innings,all with great velocity and spin rates.