There was a time, and I’m sure you remember, when there were no Baby Bombers. There was no Aaron Judge, or Luis Severino, or Greg Bird. Well, there was still Gary Sanchez, but in this bleak time for the Yankees farm system, say, five years ago, the only other top prospect in the organization was Jorge Mateo.
I wrote about Mateo a bit in January, so I won’t rehash too many of those details: he was an international amateur signed out of the Dominican Republic in 2012, and he has been a Yankees top prospect since then for his incredible speed and ability to play shortstop.