The bulk of Michael Pineda's Yankee tenure has been about potential, improvement and rehabilitation. Now he's just a guy trying to prove he's worth keeping around. He's not doing it all that well.
Around this time last year I was fan-crushing hard on Michael Pineda and arguing that he could be the Yankees' ace ahead of Masahiro Tanaka. In the poll attached to that article, 60 percent agreed with me, while CC Sabathia voted 19 times for himself. The wait was finally over...the career-threatening torn labrum and the surgery to repair it, the 811 days between the trade that sent Jesus Montero to Seattle in 2012 and Big Mike's eventual Yankee debut in 2014 and the pine tar and muscle strain-addled stops and starts of that season.