Yankees best choices for assembling a playoff pitching rotation

The Yankees rotation, currently healthy and mostly productive, is not an area of worry, but more of confusion. Who should be part of the Postseason staff? Who should move to the bullpen? And who should pitch which games?

With six potential starters, the Yankees have a plethora of options heading into what looks to be the Wild Card; winner takes all matchup against the Oakland Athletics.

If the Yankees finish the season first in the Wild Card standings and Oakland, second, as it stands now, the two will play on Oct. 3 at Yankee Stadium.

This being the case, the Boston Red Sox will take the division and obtain home-field advantage for the ALDS against the winner of the Wild Card Game.

And since the Red Sox are baseball’s best team, arguably one of the best teams in baseball history, the Yanks should aim to have a pitcher, not at the top of their rotation — yet, one who can still manage to get a win, start against the Athletics.

That’s the goal. To win a game against Oakland, while saving some of the better pitchers for the beginning of the ALDS. Being that the ALDS series is best of five series, the first few games are crucial, especially with the majority of the series being in Boston.

But obviously, you’d like to have a reliable pitcher each game — one who matches up well against the opposition.

And that’s just what is to be advised here. Each game this Postseason will involve different scenarios leaving the Yanks to figure out who’s the strongest pitcher to start each game.

Without further delay, let’s get right into the Postseason talk, starting with the Wild Card game against the Oakland Athletics.