Yankees fire pitching coach Larry Rothschild

This puts an end to a long tenure that yielded mixed results. The Yankees’ staffs under Rothschild generally put up good numbers, but then again, the Yankees have generally had plenty of talent over the past decade. The question, of course, has always been about whether Rothschild and Co. were doing enough to maximize that talent on the pitching end.

The Yankees appear to have decided that going forward, they would rather have someone else trying to get the best out of the players on hand. Sherman indicated that some of the motivation behind the move was to find someone a little more open to molding pitchers with analytically-minded, new-age techniques: