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The Yankees’ next wave of Baby Bombers will be on the mound

Remember the Killer B’s? Manny Banuelos, Dellin Betances and Andrew Brackman were, once upon a time, supposed to be the core of a newly dominant Yankee rotation. They were all ranked in Baseball America’s Top 100 Prospects in 2011, before their magnanimous fall. The only one of the three that became a regular member of the 25-man roster was Betances, who’s been one of the best relief pitchers in baseball over his career, but that’s a far cry from the franchise-defining rotation strength the Killer B’s were supposed to be.

Before that trio was another trifecta of top pitching prospects that was supposed to form a class-of-the-league rotation.