How the Yankees should deploy their super bullpen

The 2019 Yankees bullpen has the potential to be the best bullpen ever assembled. They’ve got veteran relief aces, budding starsm and enough variety in approach to create a veritable bullpen beast.

With so much firepower at his disposal, how should manager Aaron Boone best use this gift? Let’s take a look at the Yankees’ top relievers and figure out what they do best, so that we can create a hierarchy for this super bullpen.

First, the numbers. Here’s how the Yankees’ top six relievers compare, first based on last year’s stats alone (the pitchers are sorted here in descending order of WAR, as that’s FanGraphs’ default ranking tool):

And now, over the past two seasons combined:

First off, let’s get one thing out of the way early on – Aroldis Chapman is this team’s closer.