Matt Blake and the ‘pitching group’ have become indispensable to Yankees success

Source: New York Post

As the Yankees world awaits word on Aaron Boone, who still has a year left on his contract, almost as consequential is the fate of a pending free agent on his staff. Matt Blake is much less divisive than his boss, but arguably just as important, especially coming off a year in which he and the Yankees’ pitching group got the most out of a staff that was missing its highest-paid arms for considerable amounts of time and had a largely no-name bullpen — and still managed to lead the majors in ERA (3. 23).