What Ryan Yarbrough has now done for them in five starts since moving into the rotation may even be better than the Yankees could have hoped for.

It’s tough to get a bead on him,” Aaron Boone said of Yarbrough, who has always been a funky side-armer. Nobody has tried to change him.

Yarbrough actually has five pitches (fastball, cutter, sinker, change-up, sweeper). Each one has a different velocity, some in the 70s, some as soft as 67-mph. They attack different quadrants of the strike zone.