Comments on: Yanks’ farm system again ranked middle of the pack

By: Januz

Januz — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:09:26 +0000

The draft is of prime importance if you are the likes of the Royals, who has a limited major league talant pool, and the resources, to sign the “Elite Player” as a Free-Agent or keep him for a decade or more. The Yankees are the exact opposite: They can sign a Teixeira-type player, and can afford to be selective with who they draft and sign. When it comes to guys like Mitchell and DeLuca, who have tons of potential, they will spend the big bucks on. On the other side of the equation, a guy like Lyons who was considered to be a decent prospect, but with limited upside, was not signed. The Yankees are in good shape.

By: Aj

Aj — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 03:22:15 +0000

as long as we have a better system than the red sox than its all good!!! but lets face it the sox are good at drafting it seems like even there late pics are top prospects.

By: YankeeGrunt

YankeeGrunt — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 03:06:22 +0000

There’s an absurd amount of man-love for a guy who OPSed .618 in Low-A. His pitching stats were a lot better than that, but he’s still a product of the hype machine. Westmoreland has a ton of talent but he’s still on the lower rungs of the minor league ladder. Who do they have at AA or above with a ceiling? Bowden? Anderson? Neither one looked the part of phenom last year. Tazawa maybe.

The Yankees, by contrast, have Montero, Jackson and McAllister at AA or higher (probably all at AAA come Opening Day), a handful of solid relief prospects who could see the Bronx this year, and Romine about to hit AA, along with a bunch of high-ceiling guys in A ball and short-season. It’s not even close right now.

By: steve (different one)

steve (different one) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 03:04:29 +0000

the Yankees budget was what, $7M this year?

every team can do that.

By: AndrewYF

AndrewYF — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:44:29 +0000

Eh.

Remember when everyone was saying: Horne? Clippard? Betances?

It happens all the time. And there’s never a surplus, because the Major Leagues is excellent at filtering out the suspects from the dirty criminals, and there are a lot more of the suspects.

By: AndrewYF

AndrewYF — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:38:42 +0000

It’s not actually a good thing when most of your number 1 prospect’s value is purely projection, and is in A-ball.

And Westmoreland put up good numbers, but in SHORT SEASON A BALL. Are there even any premiere pitching prospects in that league? It’s a humongous jump in talent from the Penn league to the Florida State League.

With Yankees having good-to-premeire talent in the two higher leagues, how can anyone rank the Red Sox’s farm over theirs? What happened to overvaluing high-floor players who are a very good bet to contribute to the major leagues? Did that go out the window now that it’s the Yankees who have more of that?

By: radnom

radnom — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:09:52 +0000

Wow. Some of the comments on that are legendary, even for Lohud.

How so? Based on what you said, I clicked that expecting to see everyone trashing arod but instead saw most people discussing the draft picks.

Crazy that this happened during the Santana trade rumors too? This offseason is going to be a bore when compared to the last two.

Pete
Writer from Sun Sentinel on WFAN says you might be in for a boring year with Joe G. Speaks intelligently and in soundbites but he was no fun to be around. Only 6 media members followed the team, and he never addressed anyone by name and told the same stories repeatedly as if he was rehearsing them. They finally started to tell him they had heard it before.

hahaha wow, did this guy call it or what? Pete Abe is such a child.

By: radnom

radnom — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:01:22 +0000

Luckily you don’t actually have to be a good player to get type-A status. I imagine the next picks they get from a type-A guy would be from a middle reliever or someone who came over in a trade and is signed to a reasonable deal. (Nady would’ve been that guy this year if not for the injury).

By: TheLastClown

TheLastClown — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:59:20 +0000

Kelly would have to be Ruth right? What with the possibility of being a hitter or pitcher?

But while Ruth was good at both, but legendary at hitting, Kelly’s got got pitching potential & a terrible bat.

By: Evil Empire

Evil Empire — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:55:14 +0000

Yes sir. If Montero does make it as a catcher, I doubt his defense will be as good as Posada’s (and that’s not a very high benchmark), but his offensive output could more than compensate for that.

Since Posada has at least played well enough for his name to be on a HOF ballot , that is saying something.