Let's be frank. There have been an alarming number of injuries among the pitchers in the Yankees system this year. Look at the list right now:

SCRANTON

Pat Venditte

Matt Daley

TRENTON

Graham Stoneburner

Josh Romanski

Craig Heyer

Cory Arbiso

TAMPA

Jose Ramirez

Reiner Casanova

Nik Turley -- not on the DL yet, but he had blister issues yesterday and seems headed there

CHARLESTON

Jose Campos

Zach Varce

Zachary Arneson

Additionally, Manny Banuelos and Matt Tracy also spent time on the shelf. And that's only the pitchers. Walter Ibarra, Gustavo Molina, Zoilo Almonte, Dan Brewer, Jose Pirela, David Adams, Austin Romine, Slade Heathcott and Anderson Feliz have also missed time this year. 

I'm not sure there's any more to this than just a string of seriously bad luck, but it certainly looks bad. What say you, readers?