See, you can never have too much pitching
It seems like only yesterday when baseball prognosticators everywhere were wondering what the Yankees would do with all their starters. The team didn’t have room for all those arms! The Yankees had too much pitching, literally, for four games. That’s about how many starts it took for everyone to realize that didn’t have it. I didn’t forecast this. I thought the Yankees would have a surplus of starters at least for a few games, but now everyone knows why you can never have too much pitching.
Now, the question is whether or not the Yankees have enough pitching? That remains to be seen. The good news is that the team has enough warm bodies to throw into the rotation to fill out the fourth and fifth starters’ roles. The bad news is that those bodies are untested. has looked good in the long relief role, but there is a difference between long relieving and starting. always did a good job holding down the fort when a starter imploded but he also struggled in his own starts. Phelps has earned his shot at the job, but no one knows how he will fare.
, meanwhile, is also on the hot seat. My hunch is that the Yankees will give him one more start. If he does well, great. If not, it wouldn’t be surprising to see D.J. Mitchell audition for a spot start while the team waits for to return. Pettitte himself is untested. Sure, once upon a time All-Day was just that, good to go all day. Unfortunately he hasn’t pitched in more than a year. While only fools bet against Pettitte, the Yankees don’t actually know what he has left. There is no guarantee he can be effective.
Ironically, all this demonstrates why the Yankees pulled the trigger on the deal when they had the chance. Teams always need pitching. The Yankees saw an opportunity to shore up a spot in the rotation for the foreseeable future and they took it. While Pineda’s injury is tremendously disappointing, it isn’t catastrophic, yet. Pineda has a chance to come back from the injury, just not the season. It looks as though the Yankees have ample in house options to fill the holes that are left in the rotation, but the start to the 2012 season has been a rude reminder that it is true: You can never have too much pitching.
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Well, I think teams these days do have too much pitching. The Yankees now have a 13-man pitching staff and it’s still not enough? Maybe the problem is that at least half of them are trained to pitch only one inning (or a few batters) at a time which means you use so many of them in a typical game that you end up needing a conveyor belt to the farm system to bring in fresh reinforcements on a regular basis.
Back in the day more relievers were swing men meaning that they were able to give you 5-6 innings if needed for a spot start and even in their regular relief appearances would often go 2-3 innings which meant you didn’t have to use 3 or 4 of them every night.
Now there’s only one guy (OK, maybe two but only one you’d want to use in any game you plan on winning and have less than a 19-run lead) available for that.
I can’t say I’m surprised by this outcome for an organization that takes promising starters (Joba, Hughes), prematurely forces them into one-inning roles and then wonders why they haven’t developed as starters. The Yankees would not have enough pitching even if they could put Whitey Ford, Ron Guidry and David Cone into a metamorphosis machine that would re-create their youthful versions.
The issue isn’t some hackneyed baseball slogan but complete mismanagement of player development and robotic adherence to a non-optimal usage of pitching resources.