Injuries slaughtered the Yankees’ pitching depth chart, as two of their four best starters entering the year would undergo season-ended Tommy John Surgery before August.
Luis Gil, who won AL Rookie of the Year, would miss more than half of the season after a high-grade lat strain, and it resulted in the team having to roll with both Will Warren and Cam Schlittler by season’s end.
The pair provided important starts for the team, and both displayed upside to improve upon their 2025 seasons, as injuries have already put pressure on their already-existing rotation arms to step up.
We’ve seen the Yankees’ construction of a steady pipeline of pitching talent from the farm to the Bronx begin to bear fruit, and both Warren and Schlittler could have big years in 2026.
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