A radar gun doesn’t tell the whole story, but every so often it delivers a hint of what’s coming. When Cam Schlittler first started popping 100 on stadium screens in Double-A Somerset, it felt like a fun little subplot in a long Yankees season. Nobody was circling him as a future October starter. Nobody was sketching out rotation plans around a 24-year-old who still hadn’t spent a full year above A-ball. Yet the fastball kept jumping, the poise kept sharpening, and a few months later the New York Yankees were handing him the ball in games that actually mattered.

It’s rare for a pitcher to rewrite his scouting report in real time. Schlittler didn’t just tweak his projection. He blew it up. What was supposed to be a moderate-ceiling arm suddenly became a foundational piece of the Yankees’ f

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