You guys remember Chris Capuano? When the Yankees were scraping the bottom of the barrel back in 2014, they picked up Capuano from the Rockies for cash around the trade deadline, and relied on him for over 100 innings from that point until the end of 2015.
Scrapheap pitchers are actually pretty important given that load—100 innings over a year and a half is nearly half of a full season, put upon the shoulders of someone completely unreliable and who bounces from team to team.
The 2017 Yankees have their iteration of Capuano, and it’s Jon Niese.