If Josh is tethered to Clarke Schmidt, as he stated at the outset of yesterday’s aborted game thread, then I can’t help but feel the same way about Randy Vásquez, who has run a very solid 2.36 ERA (albeit with a corresponding 5.47 FIP) over his first 26.2 big league innings. Last night’s rainout turning into this afternoon’s day-night doubleheader has the Yankees calling upon Vásquez for his fifth spot start of the year, and the fourth consecutive one (dating back to June!) for which I’ve had the pleasure of writing up his gamethread and recap.
Vásquez ought to have a slightly easier time against the Red Sox this afternoon than he did in his last starting effort, when he struggled through 3.