What is happening? Welcome to the PlusPitch Podcast.

And more pitching podcast from PitcherList.com.

My name is Nick Pollock.

And today we're going to talk about the New York Yankees.

So this is actually strange.

It's more straightforward than you usually get.

You have five starters who are pretty clearly the five starters.

They have been already being listed as the guys for the opening day rotation.

There is a Sleeper 6th, two amazing prospects, and two injured studs.

That is the New York Yankees.

So, Max Fried, he's at the top of this.

I consider him a super safe play

for all your fantasy leagues. Is he a stud, like in the top five, or top three, I should say? No,

because he doesn't get the strikeouts. It's a 24% strikeout rate. He did have a really

amazing run at the beginning of last year. But really what Max Fried does super well is he throws these cutters inside with a lot of surprise cut to them to right handers. And then to left handers, he has a fantastic sinker that he throws to them. And that sinker has a lot of drop to it. So you can actually throw that to right handers as well, induce sweet contact. You can throw that four seamer that is now properly labeled as a four seamer,

that is different from the cutter, because you used to be just a cut four seamer. He can throw

that as a surprise pitch upstairs as well. And then you have this big curveball that acts as the

put-away pitch to both lefties and righties. As the sweeper to lefties is not quite as amazing

as you want it to be. The curveball is this big 75 mile per hour pitch, lots of drop.

Negative 20 vert, which is like 99th percentile drop on all curveballs.

And it's a little bit harder to get strikes with than your typical curveball because of that too big to succeed

approach. And I wish that there was one more thing. That is, I wish that the changeup was what it

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