In a perfectly executed plan for a baseball season, the Yankees would send five pitchers to the mound to make 32 starts apiece, with the top two arms each taking one additional turn. That literally has not happened once in franchise history. In fact, the club has never had as many as four pitchers make 32 starts in a season, and the last time three did it was in 2009.
Last year, 12 pitchers started games for the Bombers, with 10 of them making at least four starts each. Luis Severino was the only member of the staff to start 32 games, making 2018 the fifth straight year that either one or zero pitchers managed to hit this oddly elusive mark.