After a mostly-successful series in Toronto, the Yankees head to Cincinnati for an interleague showdown with the Reds. As one of our first tastes of the newly-balanced schedule, this series was always a notable one on the calendar, but it comes with extra weight given that righthander Luis Severino will make his season debut on Sunday.
The now-29-year-old missed the first seven weeks of the year with a lat problem, but after a long rehab process is back on the mound. Depth Charts projects him for a 3.77 ERA and 1.6 fWAR over 107 innings for the rest of the season, and he’ll get the chance to start the year against one of the league’s worst offenses in the Reds.