Cam Schlittler opens up on his F-you mentality on the mound and whats driving him with Yankees

Young Yankees hurler Cam Schlittler took a swing at some Q&A with Post columnist Steve Serby.Q: What is your definition of an ace?A: I think an ace is someone who has had a lot of experience, has been very successful, stayed consistent and healthy for a long period of time.An ace is someone that is a battle-proven.

… Consistency through the season, has success in the postseason whether they win a championship or not, they’ve shown that they can play at the highest level.Q: Do you aspire to be an ace? Do you see yourself now as an ace? Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Greg Joyce about the inside buzz on the Yankees.A: Think the goal for any starting pitcher, right? is to have ace-like qualities.

It’s not the minors where you’re kind of competing against your other starters, right? At the end of the day you’re just trying to win games, and if you can get five guys that can do that, that’s really all that matters.When I look at this team, I see three aces between Gerrit [Cole], Carlos [Rodón] and Max [Fried], and then you have some of the younger guys like me, Will [Warren] and Ryan [Weathers] who are trying to make a name for ourselves but also trying to be consistent enough to stay in the rotation and help the team win games.

You do want to be an ave, but that also depends how everything shapes up, the team and the guys that are next to me.Q: What would winning a Cy Young mean to you?A: You have these goals at the beginning of the year.For me, it was kind of more of getting back to the postseason, staying consistent, healthy all season long, making all my starts, having a full season in the major leagues, and then turning that over to the postseason and continuing to build off the success I had last year.

Again, that’s something that’s not controllable right now, but you build up good starts and I keep pitching the way I am, that’s something that could definitely be a possibility.Q...