The Yankees are quietly putting together a potentially dominant bullpen. It will no longer have recent liability Aroldis Chapman, and it will – hopefully – have Michael King and Ron Marinaccio at full strength. Clay Holmes, Wandy Peralta, Jonathan Loásiga, Lou Trivino, Tommy Kahnle, and whoever loses the rotation battle between Clarke Schmidt and Domingo Germán will also be relief stalwarts.
Marinaccio’s health will be one of the factors determining the upside of this group, not to mention the Yankees’ trust in his abilities. Let’s remember that he spent a few weeks of the second half in the minors when he really shouldn’t have, and re-aggravated a shin injury late in the season that took him out of consideration for the playoffs.