MLB Rumors: Top 10 Candidates to Fill Out the Back End of the Yankees Rotation
January 31, 2011 · Chris Sbalcio · Jump to comments
Article Source: Bleacher Report - New York Yankees
The New York Yankees entered the 2010-2011 offseason with their sights set firmly on acquiring free agent lefty, Cliff Lee. However, in the midst of a bidding war with the Texas Rangers for his services, the Philadelphia Phillies swooped in and stole Lee right out from under the Yankees’ and Rangers’ noses, much like the Yankees did to the Boston Red Sox in the 2008-2009 offseason with Mark Teixeira. Nobody had seen them coming, but all of a sudden it was over, and the prize of the free agent market was gone.
What was worse was that the rest of the market for starting pitching help, an area that the Yankees are in desperate need of a boost in, was almost nonexistent. The two best options were the former Cy Young Award-winning, but recently injury-plagued Brandon Webb, and Carl Pavano, who was not likely to return to the Bronx after less-than-stellar tenure in the Bronx from 2005-2008. The only options left now are to make a trade for a starter and forfeit some of the organization’s prospects, sign one of the remaining free agents, or fix the rotation from within by promoting prospects. Almost none of these options will be too appealing to Yankees fans, but desperate times call for desperate measures, so here are ten pitchers that I believe are viable candidates to fill out the empty slots in the Yankees’ rotation.
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