The Yankees improved their rotation in the short term recently when they dealt for (former) Seattle lefty James Paxton. This came after re-signing CC Sabathia for a one year contract, joining the two with Luis Severino, Masahiro Tanaka, and, uh, Sonny Gray. On its face, that isn’t a bad starting five and if they were to all pitch to their potential, it’d be fantastic. But that’s not the way the baseball world works.
Severino hit a road bump last year. Tanaka can be a bit up and down, despite my undying love for him. Sabathia is old now and can’t give more than 140-50 innings max.