{"id":362568,"date":"2026-10-02T04:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T04:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/362568\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T04:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T04:52:10","slug":"yankees-rotation-is-stacked-and-might-be-the-best-of-playoff-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/362568\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees’ rotation is stacked \u2014 and might be the best of playoff teams"},"content":{"rendered":"

How loaded is the Yankees rotation? Well, even though former Cy Young winner and future Hall of Famer Gerrit Cole is lined up<\/a> to pitch Game 1 of the division series Saturday vs. Tampa Bay, Boone at least initially declined to commit to a starter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That\u2019s probably because Carlos Rod\u00f3n is also rested and ready<\/a>, and Rod\u00f3n was the hottest pitcher in the American League after certain Cy Young winner Cam Schlittler the past few weeks of the season (1.89 ERA, MLB-best .146 BAA since returning).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Thanks to off days, Schlittler should be able to go in Games 2 and 5<\/a> (if necessary). The other three games will be covered by $703M worth of talent (Cole, Rod\u00f3n and Game 2 winner Max Fried\u2019s combined take-home pay).\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"NewNew York Yankees pitcher Carlos Rod\u00f3n reacts after ending the eighth inning during game one of a split doubleheader against the Tampa Bay Rays at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, N.Y., Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026. Robert Sabo for NY Post<\/p>\n

The Yankees have four outstanding starters, and three of them are at their best now (Cole\u2019s given up a few too many homers lately, nine in his last four starts). That contrasts with multiple playoff teams that have had to use openers, bullpen games and test recovering\/returning starters.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How loaded is the Yankees rotation? Well, even though former Cy Young winner and future Hall of Famer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,32358,5311,22383,20,5515,9,24,321,63,319,431,428,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-362568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-cam-schlittler","tag-carlos-rodon","tag-gerrit-cole","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-nyc","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}