Every season the crew over at Baseball America ranks their top 20 prospects for each league in Minor League Baseball. The Yankees are usually pretty absent from these rankings but after restocking their farm system with a few mid-season trades New York sent more than a few to each list for Baseball America including two for the International League, or more commonly known as Triple-A.
Gary Sanchez was the #3 ranked International League prospect
behind the Washington Nationals shortstop Trea Turner and Minnesota Twins
outfielder Byron Buxton. Sanchez and what he did with the big league club this
season was ultra-impressive but he also did well in Triple-A in 2016 which a
lot of people aren’t talking about. As Sanchez grows out of prospect
eligibility this season names like Tyler Glasnow, Austin meadows and J.P.
Crawford will slide in where Sanchez once stood.
The other Yankees prospect to make the list also reached the
Major Leagues this season, right fielder Aaron Judge. Judge ended 2015 in
Triple-A and had some holes found in his swing which left him statistically
wavering a bit to end the season. Judge seemingly plugged those holes this
season and will look for history to repeat itself this coming season in the
Bronx after being exposed a bit in 2016 at the Major League level.
You have to think if Clint Frazier had more at bats in
Triple-A he would have made the list but there is no excuse for Ben Gamel not
to be on this list. Gamel, now a member of the Seattle Mariners, was the
league’s MVP for goodness sake. How does he not make the list at least at #20?
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Sorry for the Capatcha... Blame the Russians :)