Young Yankee Starters Starring In A Flash

Here’s a fun list for you.  Via Baseball-Reference.com’s Play Index Pitching Season Finder, I came up with this report of pitchers, age 25 or younger, who pitched well for the Yankees (since 1973) where they had a small amount of starts/games for the team during the season.   (This stats include last night’s game.)

  Cnt Player            ERA+  GS  G    IP  Year Age Tm
+----+-----------------+----+---+---+-----+----+---+---+
    1 Ian Kennedy        236   3   3  19   2007  22 NYY
    2 Alfredo Aceves     180   4   6  30   2008  25 NYY
    3 Marty Bystrom      128   7   7  39.1 1984  25 NYY
    4 Jeff Karstens      119   6   8  42.2 2006  23 NYY
    5 Ray Fontenot       116  15  15  97.1 1983  25 NYY
    6 Sam Militello      114   9   9  60   1992  22 NYY
    7 Dave Eiland        112   5   5  30.1 1990  23 NYY
    8 Dave Righetti      112   3   3  17.1 1979  20 NYY
    9 Sterling Hitchcoc  110   5  23  49.1 1994  23 NYY
   10 Jeff Weaver        109   8  15  78   2002  25 NYY
   11 Joe Cowley         107  11  16  83.1 1984  25 NYY
   12 Eric Plunk         105   7  27  75.2 1989  25 NYY
   13 Darrell Rasner     102   3   6  20.1 2006  25 NYY
   14 Al Leiter          101  14  14  57.1 1988  22 NYY
   15 Philip Hughes      100  13  13  72.2 2007  21 NYY

Interesting list of names, huh?  I haven’t thought about Ray Fontenot in a while.  Sadly, very few of these pitchers went on to be useful major league pitchers.  It’s true what they same about small sample sizes, I suppose…

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