New York Yankees Top 44 Prospects

Beneath is an evaluation of the prospects within the farm system of the New York Yankees. Scouting studies had been compiled with info offered by business sources in addition to my very own observations. That is the third yr we’re delineating between two anticipated aid roles, the abbreviations for which you’ll see within the “place” column beneath: MIRP for multi-inning aid pitchers, and SIRP for single-inning aid pitchers. The ETAs listed typically correspond to the yr a participant needs to be added to the 40-man roster to keep away from being made eligible for the Rule 5 draft. Handbook changes are made the place they appear applicable, however I take advantage of that as a rule of thumb.

A fast overview of what FV (Future Worth) means might be discovered here. A a lot deeper overview might be discovered here.

All the ranked prospects beneath additionally seem on The Board, a useful resource the positioning gives that includes sortable scouting info for each group. It has extra particulars (and up to date TrackMan information from varied sources) than this text and integrates each staff’s record so readers can evaluate prospects throughout farm programs. It may be discovered here.

Different Prospects of Observe

Grouped by kind and listed so as of desire inside every class.

Low-Velocity Arms
Zach Messinger, RHP
Sean Hermann, RHP
Matt Sauer, RHP
Mitch Spence, RHP
Edgar Barclay, LHP
Steven Jennings, RHP

Messinger, 23, has undergone deprogramming after spending his school profession at UVA. The 6-foot-6 righty now has a 92-94 mph fastball that performs up because of massive extension. If he can throw tougher and/or find his slider extra constantly, he might breakout. Hermann, 19, was a 2022 highschool draftee. His fastball sits 91-92 with uphill angle and he pounded the zone with it final yr, throwing strikes at a 71% clip after he signed. His mid-80s slider is extra common proper now however this org’s core competency is creating these, so he’s a possible 2023 helium man. Sauer, a former high-profile highschool draft choose, is now 24 and sitting principally 92-93 with susceptible form. His secondaries (particularly his mid-80s slider) are all fairly good, and he’s a fantastic emergency depth choice. Spence (cutters and slurves) and Barclay (changeups and sliders) are 24-year-olds who sit 90-92, throw loads of strikes, and attempt to get by with their superior secondary pitches. Jennings, a former excessive draft choose of the Pirates, has additionally thrown numerous strikes with 40-grade stuff within the higher minors.

Potential Late-Breaking Catcher
Mickey Gasper, C/1B
Anthony Seigler, C
Carlos Narvaez, C
Josh Breaux, C

Gasper, who barely catches anymore, is a switch-hitter with nice really feel for contact. Seigler, a former first rounder who’s now 23, has struggled with accidents and spent most of 2022 at Excessive-A, the place he carried out above the league common. Recall that he’s a cool, switch-hitting former switch-pitcher. He has distinctive baseball expertise that make me need to keep on him to a level. Narvaez and Breaux are each upper-level power-over-hit sorts who may get a cup of espresso because of damage.

Toolsy, Risky Younger Bats
Daury Arias, CF
Dayro Perez, SS
Marcos Cabrera, 3B
Alan Mejia, OF
Madison Santos, OF
Christopher Familia, OF
Felix Negueis, OF

This complete group has but to play above A-ball. All of them flash energy and velocity, and scouts can dream on how their energy may develop as they mature. However every of them additionally has sizable hit instrument query marks.

Knockout Breaking Balls
Joel Valdez, LHP
Tyrone Yulie, RHP
Juan Carela, RHP
Yorlin Calderon, RHP
Josue Panacual, RHP

Except for Panacual, this whole group leans on their sliders extra usually than they do their fastballs. Valdez (acquired from Philly) is 22 and his uphill 93-94 mph heater has bat-missing traits, which isn’t true of most of this group, however he struggles to find it and it’s why he must throw his plus slider a ton. Yulie, 21, has thrown tougher previously however sat 93 in 2022. He threw his mid-80s slider 43% of the time. Carela (slider, fastball, cutter) has plus-plus breaking ball spin however struggles to throw strikes together with his 92-mph heater. Calderon is a wispy 21-year-old righty with a nasty two-plane slider and a below-average low-90s fastball. He’s free and projectable sufficient to hope that he can throw tougher with coaching. Panacual is a low-slot starter with a sinker and slider which have a pleasant horizontal break up.

Hitterish Up-The-Center Sorts
Engelth Urena, C
Jared Serna, 2B
Keiner Delgado, 2B

Urena is an athletic, well-rounded, medium-framed catching prospect who raked within the 2022 DSL. Serna, 20, tracks pitches superbly and barely strikes out, however he makes comparatively low-impact contact. Delgado’s DSL numbers had been ridiculous and he has a extremely cool, left-handed model of Jose Altuve’s scissor kick swing, however a few of his 2022 OBP is because of sheer passivity.

Onerous Throwers
Lisandro Santos, LHP
Tanner Myatt, RHP
Jack Neely, RHP
Eric Reyzelman, RHP

Santos, 24, signed as a minor league free agent after he confirmed an enormous Ok% uptick with the Braves in 2022. He has uncommon lefty velo, sitting 93-96 mph and mixing in a brief, mid-80s cutter. Myatt, 24, sits 95 and will get above-average whiff charges on his slider and changeup, however he struggles to throw strikes. Neely is a big man who hopped round to a couple faculties (Texas, San Jacinto, Iowa Western, Ohio State) earlier than professional ball. He now sits 95 and has a low-spin slider that dominated Low-A in 2022. Reyzelman was simply drafted out of LSU. He sits 95, touches 99, and must discover a second pitch. Like, in any respect. Significantly, he was like a 90% fastball man in school.

System Overview

The Yankees proceed to be nice at creating pitching. Yearly, a few school pitchers they’ve taken on Day Two or Three of a current draft take a gargantuan leap ahead. There are sometimes arm power upticks, however increasingly more often now you see contemporary sweeper sliders akin to the one the Dodgers taught Blake Treinen and Evan Phillips. Will Warren was the large riser of this selection from 2022. This core competency nearly ensures that New York will at all times have in-house depth to take care of bouts of pitcher accidents on the massive league degree.

There are the large names on the very prime, however the center of this method is skinny on place participant prospects. The Yankees’ method to the worldwide market (the place they have an inclination to place most of their bonus pool eggs in a single $4 million-plus prospect basket yearly) is maybe contributing to this. Their tendency to focus on bodily, lefty-hitting nook bats within the draft has littered the group with a handful of stable if monochromatic position gamers of modest upside. The org wants an injection of up-the-middle expertise even with the Peraza/Volpe mixture poised to carry down the center infield on the massive league degree for some time.

The general high quality of the system is close to the center of the pack proper now, and it’ll most likely end the calendar yr within the backside third because of graduations (particularly if Gleyber Torres and Isaiah Kiner-Falefa don’t hit and require Volpe to be pushed) and trades. Oswaldo Cabrera is a Dude and will have been a Prime 100 prospect final yr, however he doesn’t have the palms for the infield (simply put him in an outfield nook and let him rake), so New York will most likely must improve third base and probably catcher in some unspecified time in the future through the season. That’s most likely going to price the membership prospects, however when middle subject was the necessity in 2022, the entrance workplace discovered a strategy to transfer among the staff’s massive league pitching surplus to patch the opening, so maybe they’ll take that line once more.