NEW YORK -- File this under the heading of "due diligence" and then file it away for good.
A scout for the New York Yankees was among a group of representatives of MLB teams that watched Kieran Powell, a 25-year-old cricket star from St. Kitts who is trying to make it to big-league ball, go through a workout on Wednesday in Bradenton, Florida.
But the unidentified Yankees scout came away unimpressed, and there is no chance the "batsman," the cricket term for hitter, will be wearing Yankee pinstripes this season.
A member of an MLB organization who had been briefed on the workout told ESPN.