The numbers look strange at first glance.
A Yankees system that has been hyped to no end, that has produced touted prospect after touted prospect, that is hailed for being seemingly never ending …
… is the 17th-best in baseball, according to Baseball America.
MLB Pipeline is more optimistic: 10th.
Is it the “graduations” of Gleyber Torres and Miguel Andujar? The trade-deadline deals depleting the reservoir? Have the Yankees’ prospects taken a step back?
“Little bit of all three,” Baseball America’s Josh Norris said this weekend. “The big hits were Gleyber and Andujar. A guy who was top five or 10 in baseball [in Torres], and Andujar was in the top 100.