I'm starting this for two reasons:
1) There has been lots of smoke this week connecting NY and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, but of course there will probably be 15-20 other teams going after him hard also. The interesting thing here to me is that NY hasn't ruled out a third giant SP contract for the right player, despite Cole and Rodon making $63M combined AAV through 2028.
2) NY has a bunch of very promising internal SP candidates for next year, none of whom are yet on the 40 man or will need to be in November. Some of them have been shut down now after hitting innings limits, I thought it would be interesting to list where those stand.
Will Warren is up to 119 innings now, 129 last year, a 2021 draft pick. He is still pitching in AAA and only getting better, 1 ER total allowed in his last three starts in a league where the average ERA is around 5.50.
Chase Hampton, 106.2 innings in his first pro season after being a 2022 draft pick, he is shut down for the year after vaulting into a bunch of top 100 lists.
Drew Thorpe, also a 2022 draft pick, 139.1 innings in his first pro season and now shut down. He has a shot to win best pitcher in the entire minor leagues this year, 14-2 with a 2.52 ERA and a MILB leading 182 Ks (just 38 walks).
Richard Fitts, a 2021 pick who was the best SP in the AA Eastern League for most of the season until hitting a bit of a wall recently, he is at 146 innings after 112 last season, not shut down yet.
So the two 2021 draft picks are still going, the two 2022 ones are shut down. Cashman has done a fantastic job rebuilding the SP pool for NY in the high minors after gutting it at the 2022 deadline, amazing that none of those four even need to be on the 40 man yet and they've all already been very successful at AA or AAA (just Warren).
1) There has been lots of smoke this week connecting NY and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, but of course there will probably be 15-20 other teams going after him hard also. The interesting thing here to me is that NY hasn't ruled out a third giant SP contract for the right player, despite Cole and Rodon making $63M combined AAV through 2028.
2) NY has a bunch of very promising internal SP candidates for next year, none of whom are yet on the 40 man or will need to be in November. Some of them have been shut down now after hitting innings limits, I thought it would be interesting to list where those stand.
Will Warren is up to 119 innings now, 129 last year, a 2021 draft pick. He is still pitching in AAA and only getting better, 1 ER total allowed in his last three starts in a league where the average ERA is around 5.50.
Chase Hampton, 106.2 innings in his first pro season after being a 2022 draft pick, he is shut down for the year after vaulting into a bunch of top 100 lists.
Drew Thorpe, also a 2022 draft pick, 139.1 innings in his first pro season and now shut down. He has a shot to win best pitcher in the entire minor leagues this year, 14-2 with a 2.52 ERA and a MILB leading 182 Ks (just 38 walks).
Richard Fitts, a 2021 pick who was the best SP in the AA Eastern League for most of the season until hitting a bit of a wall recently, he is at 146 innings after 112 last season, not shut down yet.
So the two 2021 draft picks are still going, the two 2022 ones are shut down. Cashman has done a fantastic job rebuilding the SP pool for NY in the high minors after gutting it at the 2022 deadline, amazing that none of those four even need to be on the 40 man yet and they've all already been very successful at AA or AAA (just Warren).