I'm going to get straight to the point: The Yankees' rotation is not very good. Although they had the 19th best ERA in baseball last season, which isn't horrible, the normally five-man staff currently has just three pitchers. One of those pitchers finished the year sidelined with a forearm strain (Masahiro Tanaka), another is 36-years-old and is slated to have ‘cleanup' surgery on his knee (CC Sabathia), and the third had the seventh worst ERA among qualified starters in 2016 (Michael Pineda).
The slew of options behind the trio aren't overly appealing, either.