With a major league outfield that may be boxing out Jacoby Ellsbury and a Triple-A unit with Clint Frazier and Dustin Fowler, the Yankees don’t need another outfielder on the scene soon.
So Blake Rutherford has time. Even if he might not need all of it.
“There’s times he makes this game look very, very easy at the plate,” Single-A Charleston manager Patrick Osborn said of Rutherford, the Yankees’ first-round pick in 2016. “For a kid straight out of high school, you don’t often see that. A lot of times kids are drafted by what they can become, but this guy shows glimpses of now-potential or now-ability.