Although they were connected to pretty much every available starter this offseason, the Yankees opened Spring Training with five starters for five spots earlier this week. Luis Severino, CC Sabathia, Sonny Gray, Masahiro Tanaka, and Jordan Montgomery are the projected rotation and that is pretty darn good. That’s the rotation that got the Yankees to within one game of the World Series last season.
Montgomery is the young guy in the rotation — he’s 15 months older than Severino, but in terms of MLB experience, Montgomery is the young guy — and when the young guy in the rotation threw 155.