ARE PITCHING REINFORCEMENTS COMING FOR THE YANKEES?

The Yankees need pitching help like Aaron Boone needs a new excuse for getting tossed. And maybe, just maybe, the cavalry isn’t coming from a blockbuster trade—but from a bus ride up from Somerset. I love this, guys.

Let’s be honest: trusting the current Yankees rotation in a seven-game playoff series feels like trusting your umbrella in a hurricane. Sure, Carlos Rodón has a 3.50 ERA, but he’s also issued a league-leading 18 walks in just 36 innings—he’s basically handing out base runners like it’s a clearance sale.

Last October was a hard lesson in reality. The Yankees flopped in the postseason like a Broadway understudy with stage fright, and if they don’t want a repeat performance, they better start auditioning some new arms.

Enter Cam Schlittler—yes, that’s a real name, and yes, he’s very much real-deal potential. The 24-year-old righty, drafted in the seventh-round back in 2022, is quietly mowing down hitters at Double-A Somerset like he’s speedrunning a video game. On Thursday, he threw seven shutout innings with nine strikeouts against the Hartford Yard Goats (a real team, not a rock band), and suddenly, he’s looking less like a long-term project and more like a Fourth of July call-up.

So far this season, Schlittler’s sitting on a tidy 1.23 ERA with 24 strikeouts and just five walks over 22 innings. Even Athlon Sports gave him some love, saying, “Schlittler would immediately dominate hitters the way Paul Skenes did last summer.” Okay, okay—deep breath.

Will Schlittler be the answer? Who knows. But if the Yankees are serious about October and tired of their rotation turning into pumpkin spice mush by Game 2, they might want to start looking south… to Somerset, not the waiver wire.