Yankees Farm Report Part Four: Triple-A Scranton RailRiders

Dietrich Enns

The Yankees will most likely call up Adams next, but he does face serious competition from another underappreciated pitcher, Dietrich Enns. Enns is the complete opposite of Acevedo down in Jersey: he’s all control and no power. He uses four pitches well, but his fastball sits at 89-91.

However, for his career, he has 358 strikeouts—in his 355 innings—to only 139 walks. As a comparison, Michael Kopech is the 11^th ranked prospect in all of baseball; his career SO to BB ratio is 75 to 31. Yet, Enns is neither in the top 100 in baseball nor the Yankees top 30.

There could be legitimate reasons these two pitchers are so poorly thought of. There are plenty of pitchers who look great in the minors but cannot cut it at the big league level. And the evaluators know more than I do. But I also know that Greg Maddux is the winningest pitcher in the last 40 years (355).

And he did that by knowing how to pitch.

I understand being cautious, but both of these pitchers have paid their dues and will throw pitches in the Bronx at some point this year. Not so for Daniel Camarena and Caleb Smith; they just don’t have good enough track records. On to the offense.