Even before starting pitcher Chad Green left Friday’s blowout loss to Baltimore with a sore right elbow, the New York Yankees rotation depth was razor thin.
Nathan Eovaldi was diagnosed with a torn flexor tendon and a partially torn UCL in August, which will cause him to miss not only this year, but 2017 as well. Bryan Mitchell was expected to be the team’s sixth starter coming out of spring training, but he has yet to pitch an inning in the Bronx after fracturing his toe in March.