There are eight days until the New York Yankees open up the 2017 campaign against the Tampa Bay Rays and the battle for the final two sports is still undecided.
New York did cut Luis Cessa from the competition by reassigning the righty to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, but the rise of Jordan Montgomery has kept the candidate count at five.
The underwhelming showdown now features Montgomery, Bryan Mitchell, Luis Severino, Chad Green and Adam Warren fighting for a starting rotation role after Masahiro Tanaka, CC Sabathia and Michael Pineda.