In his recent chat discussing Baseball America’s 2017 New York Yankees Top Ten Prospects list (subscription required), Josh Norris opined that Jonathan Holder, who got his first taste of big league action this September as a reliever, could be moved to the rotation this year because of his solid four-pitch repertoire.
Selected in the sixth round of the 2014 draft as a closer with Mississippi State, Holder split his time between starting and relief during his first professional action with the Yankees Gulf Coast League affiliate and short-season Staten Island.
Things went well enough that Holder was converted to the rotation full time in 2015.