Yankees make rare good gesture to scouting staff during pandemic

The Yankees became one of very few MLB teams to help their scouts on Friday.

So many of the tales from MLB front offices in 2020 have been bleaker than words, and we’ve been accustomed to unadulterated cruelty all the way down the line. Sadly, the Yankees are no exception.

The team certainly does not get a pass from us for the way they severed their minor-league relationship with Staten Island, which has opened them up to litigation. Nor does the team get a pat on the back for furloughing player development staff midseason, or releasing a horde of minor leaguers in an effort to save chump change.

On Friday, though, we received a rare bit of good news, as well as a modicum of hope about the way this franchise will function in 2021.

According to Daily News beat writer Kristie Ackert, the entire scouting department that’s lasted through this pandemic will see their current contracts renewed at the same value for next season. All those deals were previously set to expire before the new year.

Exhale. Those who worked so hard to build this contender may very well get to see it through to the end after all.

Maintaining the status quo has certainly not been the norm throughout the game of baseball in 2020, where even the richest ownership groups have pinched pennies along the way — including the Yankees.

Recently, Ted Lerner and the Nationals — among the richest cabals in the game — saw fit to dismiss the entire sales staff after months of delaying the decision.

The Phillies, too, have complained of monstrous losses in recent weeks (welcome, Dave Dombrowski!), further clarifying the financial peril that the Yankees, a team that lost even more money, are currently in.

Though plenty is broken about the game of baseball in 2020, and many long-lasting relationships have been forever fractured, the Yankees have seen the light and done the right thing here.

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