The Yankees have one of the most formidable rotations in the postseason bracket. <\/p>\n
Gerrit Cole is the likely Game 1 starter after Cam Schlittler and Max Fried finished off the Red Sox in two games.<\/p>\n
Carlos Rodon is an option for Game 2, or Aaron Boone can come back with the Schlittler-Fried combination in Games 2 and 3. <\/p>\n
The rotation is loaded with postseason experience. The least experienced member of the quartet, Schlittler, has quickly turned into one of the best postseason pitchers over the last few years. <\/p>\n
At minimum, the Yankees take away the pitching advantage the Rays in most matchups this season. Drew Rasmussen, Freddy Peralta, Griffin Jax and others will be countered by an All-Star pitcher on the other end. <\/p>\n
The Yankees just held the Red Sox to two runs over 18 innings in the wild-card round. <\/p>\n
They may concede a few more runs over five games against the Rays, but there’s a chance they hold Tampa Bay under three runs in most of the contests because of how strong they are on the front end of the pitching staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Yankees have one of the most formidable rotations in the postseason bracket. Gerrit Cole is the likely…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":911796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-911795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/911796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}