Yankees Farm Report Part Four: Triple-A Scranton RailRiders

Odds and Ends

A couple of notes on other players of note not already noted. SS Tyler Wade is batting well (.295/.364/.445) but has ten errors, leading the team by three. While he is the Yankees eleventh-ranked prospect, he will not hold any real promise until he cleans that up.

1B Mike Ford has an OPS of 1.182, which leads the team, but was sent back down to Double-A when Austin was promoted. If the Yankees see him as no better than the fourth-best first baseman, he cannot be that much of a prospect. Ditto for LF Mark Payton: nice numbers but not a real prospect yet.

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Well, that takes us through the current Yankees farm system. One thing I hope is clear is that there are several exciting prospects that can be traded without sacrificing any of the highly ranked and better-known players.

Acevedo, Adams, Frazier, Sheffield, Rutherford and Florial are going nowhere. Each player’s potential is too high.

But what would a package of Fowler, Littell, Rogers, Estrada, Zehner, and Mateo bring back? That is a lot of players and all with a chance to be great. If clubs like the Royals, Pirates, Rays and even the Blue Jays find they need to be sellers, the Yankees will have plenty of players to trade.

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And that is one good reason to have a deep system with a lot of potential. You can trade from a position of strength and still have great young players. The Yankees have that, and more. Once the rest of the minor league teams play for a few weeks, we will revisit the farm.

My guess is some of the players from this long, long series will be in the majors while others from the as yet unplaying lower levels will have moved up. We’ll cover it all when the time is right.

I just hope it does not take me another 6,000 words to do so.