Yankees manager Aaron Boone said the team has not yet committed to a starter for the upcoming wild card game.
Boone said the discussion surrounding who will start in the one-game playoff is "something we kick around and talk about every day, but really I would say we're not close," reports Newsday.
Among the starters in consideration include J.A. Happ, Masahiro Tanaka, and Luis Severino. Despite Severino's struggles in the second half, he pitched seven innings of one-run ball against the Red Sox his last time out. Tanaka was knocked around for five runs in four innings last Thursday, but had allowed just one run in his three most recent outings before that, including eight shutout innings against the Mariners on Sept. 7. Happ has also pitched well since joning the Yankees earlier this season.
With more than a week to go until the playoff game, Boone plans to utilize the team's remaining games to make a decision.
"We'll continue to have conversations and hopefully by the end of the week we're in a position to where we can kind of shape it and manipulate it how we want and make a good decision," he explained.
The Yankees' first-year skipper also made sure to stress that the way the rotation is currently structured is not intentional.
"I think a lot of people have read too much into how Happ is set up right now," Boone said. "Happ is very much in the picture as a possibility for us. How it lines up right now isn't by design or anything. We're trying to line us up to be the most effective to try and win games this week."