He has taken time recovering from an arm injury, and after a full offseason of training the Yankees are hoping to see Gómez return to the promise he showed before he got hurt. Yoendrys Gómez enters his last option year and is the only 40-man starter on this list likely to start the season in Somerset. Vasquez’s nasty breaking ball could be used out of the bullpen to terrorize right-handed hitters if the 24-year-old is called upon for that role. Randy Vasquez likely moves into the Scranton rotation this year after finishing 2022 with eight no-hit innings in Double-A Somerset’s championship clincher. He’s a longshot to make the Yankees, but he should see the Bronx at some point in 2023. He’s an older prospect at 28, but that won’t matter if he can keep the walks down and the strikeouts up. Matt Krook also could be utilized as a reliever, and with his somewhat-funky left-handed delivery, he could be a difficult matchup to same-side hitters. But there are the makings of a power reliever in Gil if starting proves misguided. Looking back on his 2021 debut, he’s had strong starts in the big leagues already, and it is likely he returns to a rotation once healthy.
Luis Gil is still recovering from last year’s Tommy John surgery, but he remains a strong prospect while he rehabs. He is out of options, so either he makes the major league team (unlikely) or he must pass through waivers to stay in the organization - and that’s if he’s not traded. He’ll turn 24 this year, and his future with the Yankees is cloudy at the moment. He’ll likely be a member of the Triple-A Scranton rotation for his age 25 season.ĭeivi García is a familiar name, and because we’ve seen him be successful in the past, we can believe his ability is still there after two difficult seasons. Brito’s athleticism and repeatable delivery can help him control the baseball, limit walks, and keep the ball on the ground. Jhony Brito is one of the newest members of the 40-man roster, and his name keeps coming up in the discussion of pitchers who may impact the Yankees’ rotation this year. Here are the pitchers who could make that happen in 2023. That’s a lot of pitching depth to move in one season, and it will be important for the Yankees to develop more starters to replenish that depth. The Yankees traded starting prospects Ken Waldichuk, Hayden Wesneski, JP Sears, Luis Medina, Beck Way, TJ Sikkema, and Chandler Champlain around last year’s deadline. In that sense, pitching depth in a system is a virtue. Unfortunately, injuries take their toll on some starting pitching prospects, others are moved to the bullpen, and some just can’t seem to make it through the upper levels of the minors. It is very difficult to simply make it to the big leagues as a starting pitcher, let alone being effective enough to stay there. Numbers like those make it difficult to believe that the Yankees, or any team for that matter, wouldn’t just constantly churn out starters they’ve developed, but most fans could count on their fingers the impact, homegrown pitchers they’ve seen come out of the New York system.
That many games requires an organization to employ a lot of starting pitchers, and using a standard five-man rotation implies that at any given time, there are 35 active starters in the system.
The seven Yankees minor league affiliates played a total of 717 regular season games in 2022.
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