Chapter 1: What did Cam Schlittler's performance against Seattle reveal?
The one thing that I want to start with is what Cam Schlittler looked like yesterday. I mean, that kid looks like a star. He looked like a star last year in the playoffs. He looks like a real bona fide. I mean, they got a number one in waiting. Now they got Garrett Cole coming back. And this kid just looked like it was an everyday minor league game yesterday, and he was just throwing gas.
I mean, his pitches were unbelievable. And listening to David Cohn actually talk about what he was doing and the pitches he was throwing. And I never knew this about pitching, but David Cohn said yesterday that there were times where he would be warming up and he was trying to hit the plate with a curveball.
He was trying to hit the plate with it because he can get a guy swinging and missing, and that's exactly what happened yesterday for Cam Schlittler. But I will say we got another young star here in our midst that just looked unhittable yesterday.
Yeah, and what I love about him is the confidence that he has because he throws so many fastballs. So it's not like he's a guy that's got like this eight-pitch arsenal that's keeping everybody off balance. He's attacking guys constantly, constantly, constantly, and he knows he's got great stuff.
Chapter 2: How does Cam Schlittler compare to other young pitchers in the Yankees' rotation?
He believes in himself. Now, I know this Mariners lineup has been a little bit disappointing to start the year. Their top three guys have been brutal, but they're still really good hitters over the course of their careers, and he's just picking them off one by one like it's nothing. So it's something to be really, really excited about. I would have liked to have seen him go deeper into the game.
It was only 79 pitches, I believe, when Aaron Boone came and got him. But we know this is the world these days. He's probably thinking, hell, I mean, we're smacking his team around. You know, we got a 4-0 lead at this point, even though they cut into that, made it 4-2 before the Ben Rice home run. But you've got to be absolutely thrilled watching this guy if you're a Yankee fan. So now...
Cam Schlittler and the idea of Garrett Cole coming back and still having good years left at the top of that rotation with Max Freed, that right there, if you want to get excited about the New York Yankees, it starts and ends with that.
Obviously, we know the offense, what it could be with Aaron Judge, but my goodness, the top of that rotation, the potential that it has with Schlittler looking like this is through the roof.
That's two starts for him now, and... It just looks too easy.
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Chapter 3: What pitching techniques did David Cohn highlight during the analysis?
And I understand when Boone came out to get him yesterday, he had 79 pitches, and you were all sitting there going, like, what are they doing? Why are we pulling him out? But I think it also was to get Bednar some work because he hadn't worked at all, and eventually they were going to get to him. But I don't know. To me, the story is that guy right there. I mean, that is a find.
That is a developed player. That is a player that ā Looks like he's going to be here for a long time. And I mean, and I love what you're saying about him just challenging players, trying to hit the fastball up and down, up and down, up and down, in and out, in and out. I mean, he was just, I mean, he's... He is going to be a bona fide star. That's all there is to it. And you can see it.
And there's nothing better.
Chapter 4: Why is Cam Schlittler considered a potential star for the Yankees?
I mean, whether it be Matthew Schaefer or Jackson Dart or Nolan McClain, and now you have Schlittler and Ben Rice is starting to figure it all out. I mean, there's nothing better than watching younger players in the uniforms that you root for actually turn into something.
Yeah, absolutely. I mean, and I think that's part of the reason why, and I'm not going to spend a lot of time on this, but part of the reason why Met fans were so annoyed with the Pete Alonzo thing is like, it's your guy. You know, he came up through your system. He was doing special things in your uniform. He was breaking your franchise record.
So fans love guys like this a little bit more because they've always been your guy. Yeah, that's right. They've always been your guy.
And what I love, too, about Schlittler is we know the guy's got that little bit of red ass in him, as you like to say, when it comes to certain quarterbacks or certain guys in NFL locker rooms because of what he did last year after shutting down the Red Sox and he was popping off a little bit, which I had no problem with. I mean, the Yankees need stuff like that.
That's one criticism that I've had about the Yankees the last several years is, yes, they're very good players, But they lack that sort of edge that they had when they were great.
Arrogance.
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Chapter 5: What concerns exist regarding the Mariners lineup faced by Schlittler?
Yeah. It's the arrogance. And I understand that comes with winning. But sometimes you need to have it before you win in order to win. And there's a couple of guys on this team that have that. And I think Jazz Chisholm is one of them. I think Cam Schlittler is another. But that attitude is just great. I mean, it is. Cam Schlittler, from what we've seen from him so far. Yeah.
If you put him in a time machine and threw him on those late 90s Yankees dynasty teams, he'd fit right in. You know what I mean? He'd fit right in with that group.
Maybe he turns into the next Roger Clemens.
Chapter 6: How did the Yankees' strategy impact Schlittler's game time?
Well, yes. I mean, that would be one hell of a thing.
That's how he pitches. That would be one hell of a thing. But that's how he pitches with the fastball and everything else. The other thing I was thinking yesterday when Goldschmidt got up, I was thinking, you know, Aaron Boone gave Stanton the day off. Yep. Okay, and they put Goldschmidt at first base and, you know, Ben Rice at DH. And here we go. And he's up there in a big spot.
Against a righty, too, by the way.
Against a righty where, obviously, Michael Kay was talking about his, you know, his righty-lefty splits and all that other crap. I can't believe I just said that.
Well, I mean, but you said it because you heard Michael Kay say it right before the home run, which I think is an important distinction because he's like, hey, we know he can hit lefties, he struggled against righties, and then bang, big homer there.
Right, and then when you watch the replay, and even David Cohn said it, the ball was out in front of the plate, and he just lifted it right out of the park.
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Chapter 7: What does the future hold for Cam Schlittler and the Yankees' rotation?
You know, that's a guy you can root for, too. You know, he's an older guy on his last legs, and he's not making a lot of money. And he came through in a game in which they sat down their hottest hitter. Yeah. And he was basically the replacement for that guy. And he came through in a big way.
And that's, you know, the Yankees, you know, starting out the way that they have started out, that's exactly what you want for a team that has played their opening six games on the road. Yeah. That's exactly what you want. Five and one, bring it home, and let's go.
Yeah, on the West Coast, no less. And, of course, they get the travel day today. You got the home opener at Yankee Stadium tomorrow against the other hottest team in baseball in the Miami Marlins who have somehow started off the season winning 5 of 6.