“There’s no such thing as too much pitching.” It’s a truism at this point, and one that Yankees fans are incredibly familiar with. Teams never finish the season with the pitching staff that they started with, and the Yankees have been no exception. In 2020, for example, the three-headed monster of Gerrit Cole, Luis Severino, and James Paxton, which would have given the team one of the best rotations in baseball, never saw the field.
Pitchers tend to get hurt at a very high rate, and for years, baseball writers have for years debated what exactly causes pitchers to be prone to injury.