If it’s one game, I grab the guy with the nastiest stuff I can get, and I let him dial it up to ten for as many innings as he can.

I’m gonna go with Chacin….

Reasons…he transitioned well to the upper levels, and at least got a taste of the bigs.

His K rate is respectable enough, but with his ground ball tendencies, he can allow his defense to work for him, instead of trying to force to much on his own and give up demoralizing deep balls (which in NYY is easy to do). With his makeup, I think the chance he can tame his control for one game is reasonable enough to give your team a chance to win the game….and possibly even dominate it.

Interesting thoughts by gogo and BobbyS, as I immediately thought of groundball guys as well. Decent choices, although I would wonder how deep mejia could go and how he’d fair 2nd and 3rd times through. I also thought about a guy like Niese, who also is a groundball guy, good control and a lefty (although I am not sure about new yankee Stadium, but i know the old one favored lefties)

Since he’s not technically ruled out, I’ll take Yu Darvish.

But seriously, Wade Davis. Unlike Chacin I wouldn’t be terrified that he’d walk the world, and I think he’d keep enough balls on the ground to keep us in the game.

Scheppers and Mejia wouldn’t be bad choices but I think either could pull a Joba and blow up under pressure. Davis doesn’t seem like he has quite that risk.

Zach Stewart might be another interesting option.

In this situation, you pretty much can’t take a guy who doesn’t have any AAA experience . . .the likelihood of a player from a lower level blowing up command-wise is just too high. You can only make exceptions for guys with really good sinkers, because they have a pitch to get rid of multiple baserunners via DP and thus can overcome some of those command issues.

I’d imagine that most would defer to Jeremy Hellickson, as he’s typically the top rated arm that you didn’t list other than the incredibly young Martin Perez. Given his good command and AAA experience, he’s a good choice, although Jacob Arrieta would be very tempting as well. Zach Stewart has the sinker to get by for a few innings.

Dark horse: Zach Britton on Baltimore. Dangerous to take an A ball pitcher, but he’s a lefty to negate the power advanage that lefty batters have in Yankee Stadium and it’s not hard to see his sinker getting him 5 or so innings. It’s not something you’d want to repeat (I suspect he’d get blown away his second time around), but he’d be a sneaky pick.

Going to have to think on this a bit more. The cool thing is that the best answers are very rarely the top prospect power arm types. You want polish, consistency, and keeping your team in the game.

and the Yankees having some great RH hitters in their line-up, I’m going to want someone with no discernable platoon splits, keeps the ball on the ground (to minimize the short porch), has some experience against batters above Single-A, and has at least one true strikeout pitch.

I’d go with Christian Friedrich.

has the right combination of stuff and experience to send out there for a game 7. HIs stuff is good enough to make hitters respect him. 2+ years of success pitching above A ball gives him the proper amount of experience to be a good candidate for this assignment. I like his ability to grind thru rough patches, which are going to come in this game, and would give him the ball.

Nasty stuff and, along the lines of the Mike Leake reasoning (very sound imo), he’s pitched on a fairly large stage before, though not necessarily at an excellent level. I really like the Leake and Wade Davis picks though…

For park purposes, I’d favor a lefty. Knocking out the guys above, I’d go with Friedrich over Perez, based on the ability (so far) to keep the ball down.

This may t obvious answer but give me da man with 3 plus pitches and dial it up to 10mph with pinpoint command and movement …. ’nuff said!

Can hopefully draw on closer mentality for one game. I sure hope he is a starter this year.

Misses plenty of bats and won’t issue walks. Top of the rotation stuff. Experience at all levels.

Dominating curve and fastball combo. Has been clocked at 99 in games, with his big curve in the 70s… thats a very nice differential.

Has had a lot of seasoning in the minors, can be dominant at times, and has some major league experience, Hellickson is another good option.

if I felt I had a solid shot to score 4+ runs against their starter, I might go with Bumgarner. Goal being just to get 4-5 innings out of him without suffering a command implosion. Hellickson is also a good choice.

How you like them apples. If I am going to throw a rookie into the fire he must have savvy, poise and polish. All of that plus four plus to average offerings. Why Not.

And they are playing in Yankee stadium.

Because of these two main points, I want a lefty on the mound. Specifically, I want a lefty that is not prone to giving up the long ball.

I am not a huge fan of Bumgarner, but he would make a very good choice given these circumstances. My darkhorse pick though? Mike Montgomery. The kid gave up 1 HR in 110 IP last year, while posting a 3:1 K:BB ratio. Good control, coupled with a great HR rate, is exactly what I would want out of my pitcher in these circumstances.

I’d definately have to go with a lefty. Montgomery,Freidrich or Perez.

Not too concerned with whether a guy has “poise” or upper-level experience. Poise is overrated imo.

All else equal I’ll take a guy, ideally a lefty, who can miss bats. You’re basically just trying to get through the lineup 2x anyway.

I’m gonna take Matt Moore.

(Let the jeers commence.)

back to back cy youngs. best stuff. best pitcher the past 2 years. period.