Michael King said before the season that his goal was to pitch 100 innings for the Yankees this year. He’s already a quarter of the way there, and if the team keeps needing him in the rotation, he could very well hit that mark.
We’ve seen King before – he’s been talked up in spring training as a back-end rotation option, but he only pitched 26 mostly unimpressive and low-leverage innings last year. In 2021 though, King has become a valuable member of the Yankees’ pitching staff, and with Corey Kluber on the shelf for months, he’s the team’s de facto fifth starter.