Jared Diamond of the Wall Street Journal recently ran a story on how the Yankees are finally close to producing some of their own starting pitching instead of overpaying for older starting pitchers in free agency and trades. Within the column, Diamond showed that the Yankees have produced just one homegrown All-Star starting pitcher since 1991, Phil Hughes.
More interesting to Rays fans — and probably not surprising to most — the Rays are quite good at producing their own starting pitchers. During that same 25-year period, only the A’s (5) have signed or drafted more players that were developed into All-Star starting pitchers than the Rays (4).