As much as we’d all like, a team cannot field a rotation full of aces and a bullpen full of top-notch closers. Often it’s the teams that do the best around the margins that can find those few extra wins here or there and make the difference between making the playoffs and not.
The Yankees were one of the better teams at extracting contributions out of those fringy depth players, and today we’ll be looking at the pitchers who stepped up when their numbers were called. For the sake of brevity, we will be limiting the scope to the miscellaneous pitchers who threw at least four innings for the Yankees in 2022: Luis Gil, Chi Chi González, Manny Bañuelos, Ryan Weber, and JP Sears.