There was plenty of news coming out of the Yankees camp last night surrounding rotation shifts.  As Chad Jennings of LoHud noted this morning, we have a pretty good guess of how the rotation shakes out for the remainder of the year:

Saturday, September 25 v. BOS: Ivan Nova

Sunday, September 26 v. BOS: Dustin Moseley (formerly Phil Hughes)

Monday, September 27 @ TOR: AJ Burnett (normal rest)

Tuesday, September 28 @ TOR: not announced (formerly Sabathia)

Wednesday, September 29 @ TOR: Phil Hughes (7 days rest)

Thursday, September 30: off day

Friday, October 1 @ BOS: CC Sabathia (7 days rest)

Saturday, October 2 @BOS: either AJ Burnett or Andy Pettitte

Sunday, October 3 @ BOS: either AJ Burnett or Andy Pettitte

If Burnett pitches on Saturday, he will be on normal rest.  Pitching on Sunday gives him an extra day, which he doesn’t particularly need given his recent rain-shortened outings.  If Pettitte goes on Saturday, he’ll be on seven days rest.  If he’s on Sunday, he’s on eight days rest. Obviously Pettitte doesn’t need extra rest.  He needs to be stretched out more than he needs to be rested, so pitching him on Wednesday would be the normal course of action.  But the goal is to line him up for the playoffs, and so he’ll pitch on Saturday or Sunday.  As Jennings notes, and he really does a good job covering the permutations, whether Burnett or Pettitte go on Saturday or Sunday depends entirely on how they want the ALDS rotation to shake out.  There are several possible options that I will detail after the jump.
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