After not winning another championship and even losing the East, the New York Yankees find themselves in a pitching mess this offseason. Other than new pitching ace Gerrit Cole, the Yankees pitching last season was at best inconstant and at times abysmal. As it happened, those pitchers are gone off the payroll. Masahiro Tanaka, James Paxton, and J.A. Happ all reached free agency and were not offered a qualifying offer to stay with the team. That loosens up about $50 million to help fix the Yankees pitching problems.
There are a lot of free-agent pitchers for the Yankees to choose from, but the best on that list, Trevor Bauer, Mike Minor, Jake Odorizzi, will probably come at a price the New York Yankees aren’t going to want to spend.