Col Hogan wrote:...despite the fact that according to the record, the Yankees are among the three best teams in baseball, they haven't got a prayer of getting to the World Series, let alone winning it, with their current pitching rotation.
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People keep saying that, but Garcia and Colon keep going out there and getting great results. Colon threw 99 pitches the other night, 71 for strikes! He keeps hitting his spots, hitting 94-95 on the gun. Plus, after two hiccups after coming off the DL, he's right back in the groove. Garcia has batters off stride and has really developed into a finesse pitcher. I've seen him make some batters look really bad this year with location and off-speed stuff.
That being said, it would be nice if the Yankees added a pitcher to lengthen the rotation and make Colon a game 3 starter rather than a game 2 starter. Hughes pitched well yesterday, but he's still not in a groove, is making too many pitchers, and I don't like his ball/strike ratio.
But the Yanks also have Ivan Nova at Triple AAA. This guy was getting better with every start and, on most teams, would be a reliable 4-5 starter type right now. That speaks to some depth of the Yankee rotation. The problem is that the Yankees go from a clear No. 1 guy, to two guys who be No. 3 on a World Series winner.
