It’s easy to forget how off-the-radar Jordan Montgomery was before his rookie season in 2017. If performance were all that mattered for prospect hype, Montgomery would have been a household name among Yankee fans: 139 1/3 innings between Double-A and Triple-A, 2.13 ERA (including 0.97 at Triple), a strikeout per 9 innings, a solid walk […]
Tag: Prospects
Unprotected: Who Will the Yankees Lose to the Rule V Draft?
Brian Cashman had a busy couple of days to prepare for Monday night’s Rule V 40-man roster deadline. The Yankees 40-man roster was a bit of a mess; they added Gleyber Torres, Billy McKinney, Jake Cave, Albert Abreu, Thairo Estrada and Jonathan Loaisiga, and were forced to subtract Garrett Cooper, Caleb Smith, Ronald Herrera, Nick […]
Spring Training Recap: Week One
Congratulations, Yankees fans, you’ve survived the offseason! It was a rough one, especially with the Yankees refusing to sign a free agent, but that’s all behind us now. It’s finally March, which means that spring training is here. These exhibition games won’t feature the most exciting and pivotal action that you’ll witness this season, but […]
A fan’s guide to coping with the Greg Bird injury
For some teams, a prospect coming up to the big leagues and thriving is a regular occurrence. How lovely it must be to be a Cardinals fan! For other teams, it’s a rare occurrence. For the Yankees, it hasn’t really happened since Brett Gardner or David Robertson. There’s been a constant stream of disappointment since then, […]
Three Yankees prospects land in BP’s Top 101
First of all, if you’re reading this and haven’t purchased the Baseball Prospectus 2016 annual, complete with player predictions and insider-level comments on each team, you should order a copy. BP released its Top 101 Prospects of 2016 on Friday, which includes three promising youngsters in the Yankees system. OF Aaron Judge (No. 18) 2015 rank: 59 Book comments: Judge […]
Prospects Who Could Make An Impact in 2016
The Yankees have started to make an attempt to get younger. Last year, they traded for Nathan Eovaldi and Didi Gregorious, gave rookies Luis Severino and Greg Bird prominent roles, and avoided trading top prospects. The goal of building a team that can have short term and long term success, which is what the Yankees are […]
Yankees Midseason Top 15 Prospects
Now that the trade deadline has passed, we can all sigh with relief that the Yankees’ newfound prospect depth is almost entirely intact. Ramon Flores and Jose Ramirez, we hardly knew ye. What lies below is my entirely subjective and personal ranking of who I reason to be the fifteen best prospects in the Yankees’ […]
Aaron Judge’s Kryptonite
Hello everyone! I’m Nick Stellini, BP Bronx’s newest contributor. Some of you may know me from Beyond the Box Score and Pinstripe Alley at SB Nation. I’ll be writing here in addition to my old stomping grounds. You can follow my banal thoughts and analysis, as well as the occasional prospect news Tweet when I’m […]
Glimpsing the ludicrous power of Aaron Judge
“I mean… if you could grade something off the scale, Aaron Judge has 9 raw power.” – CJ Wittmann, Raw Projection, Ep. 5 There are few parts of a baseball game more enjoyable than watching a hitter square a pitch up and absolutely destroy the ball. That’s what makes Giancarlo Stanton one of the game’s […]
The 2015 renaissance of Mason Williams
The first couple months of the 2015 season have certainly offered their share of surprises for the Yankees organization. Alex Rodriguez and Mark Teixeira are pivotal offensive players once again, Adam Warren is emerging as a capable mid-rotation starter, and for a brief time, 2009 first round pick Slade Heathcott was healthy and even producing […]