Larry Rothschild won’t return as pitching coach for Yankees

The New York Yankees have fired pitching coach Larry Rothschild, the team stated Monday.

Rothschild has had the job since 2011, when he took over Dave Eiland, who was fired.

“I want to personally thank Larry for his near-decade of commitment to this organization,” Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said. “Larry cares deeply about his craft and the pitchers under his tutelage, and he played a significant role in our successes over the past nine seasons.

“There’s a reason why Larry has had the type of distinguished baseball career he’s had, and it starts with experience and dedication that is difficult to emulate.”

Since Rothschild joined the Yankees in 2011

The team’s pitching staff has led the American League with 12,634 strikeouts while collecting the fourth-most WAR (169.5) in MLB. However, it ranked 14th in MLB in ERA (4.31) and 10th in WAR (18.1) during the 2019 regular season.

The Yankees don’t have a replacement in mind for Rothschild, who had one year remaining on his contract, and they plan to go through a process to find his successor, Joel Sherman of the New York Post reported.

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Meanwhile, the 65-year-old Rothschild has been linked to the Philadelphia Phillies by multiple sources due to his past working relationship with their new manager, Joe Girardi.

Rothschild worked under Girardi in New York from 2011 until the latter parted ways with the club in 2017. The Phillies are looking for a pitching coach after releasing Chris Young at the beginning of October. Looking beyond the staff as a whole, however, a number of key Yankees arms turned in pedestrian or generally poor seasons on the mound. 

James Paxton provided the Yankees with 150 2/3 solid innings, but he was the only regular rotation member with an ERA south of 4.00. Masahiro Tanaka (4.47), CC Sabathia (4.99), and J.A. Happ (5.01), in particular, all authored seasons that didn’t align with organizational hopes and expectations.

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