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Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes was on the New York Yankees' radar ahead of the 2014 MLB draft.
Yankees amateur scouting director Damon Oppenheimer told Brendan Kuty of NJ Advance Media that area scout Mike Leuzinger, who tracked Mahomes at Whitehouse High School in Texas, "really liked him" and thought he possessed legitimate upside both in the field and on the mound.
"He thought the guy had a future in baseball," Oppenheimer said this week. "He thought he could hit, that he could play the outfield, that he was athletic.