TAMPA — Larry Rothschild isn’t going to fret over the readings coming out of the speed guns tracking Masahiro Tanaka’s pitches.
“I know he will pitch whatever the velocity is. A lot has been made of it,’’ the Yankees’ pitching coach said of Tanaka’s fastball velocity ever since he suffered a small tear to the right ulnar collateral ligament in July 2014. “He is not a velocity guy, he is a pitcher. He knows what to do with the ball in his hand.