Yankees.com: Stroman can’t escape 1st, goes for tests on left knee

From Bryan Hoch:

Marcus Stroman trudged toward the first-base dugout in the first inning on Friday night, his early exit accompanied by a chorus of boos. The Yankees’ starting pitching was lauded as perhaps baseball’s best coming into this season, but it has become an area of concern.

Other than Max Fried, who has a razor-sharp 1.56 ERA across three starts, the Bombers have struggled to find consistency in the rotation. A 46-pitch effort from Stroman, who permitted five runs and recorded just two outs in a 9-1, rain-shortened loss to the Giants at Yankee Stadium, certainly didn’t help.

Stroman’s terrible, but I guess he probably shouldn’t be THIS terrible, so I might actually believe that he is dealing with an injury. Good, get him on the IL. The problem is that the best option on the current roster to replace him, Yoendrys Gómez, looks like HE’s probably hurt, too, as his velocity dropped a LOT. Gómez blamed the fact that it was pouring rain at the time, and that might be true, but it also might be that the oft-injured Gomez is, well, you know, injured again.

I guess they need to keep Cookie Carrasco at this point, but I honestly wouldn’t mind just throwing Ryan Yarbrough out there at this point.

The Yankee offense is good enough (unless you’re a tough lefty) to keep the Yankees in most games, they only need mediocre starting pitching, and Stroman and Carrasco aren’t even giving them THAT. Rodon and Warren both have at least CHANCES at succeeding. I don’t see that with Stroman or Carrasco at the moment.

I almost want to bring Domingo German back. Spencer Turnbull is throwing for teams, maybe give him a shot? This team just needs non-godawful pitching to hang in the playoff race, as the rest of the American League sucks, too. The Red Sox got their asses kicked by the fucking White Sox.

Featured image is Stroman’s third batter hitting a three-run home run off of him.