Teams around baseball are constantly looking for in-house answers for their pitching staff. Very few pitchers instantly reach the Yankees system with a refined arsenal and the necessary command to harness it against big league hitters. Over the past several years, the Yankees have revamped their pitching coaching staff under the guidance of Organizational Pitching Coordinator Sam Briend. Players like Hayden Wesneski, Ken Waldichuk, and other showed significant improvement coming out of the lost pandemic season and are now considered among the team’s top prospects.
Below them in the system lies another wave of players with the arm talent to make a similar mark, but those names were still lacking the refinement to their game the last time they stepped on a field.