Last summer, teams around baseball were asked to create a 60-man roster that would best suite their needs over the course of a short season. Some clubs invited their top prospects, knowing they were well below the major league level but hoping that every live at-bat would help compensate in some way for a lost minor league season. The Yankees trended the other way, choosing players in the upper levels of the system and combining them with available veterans who had past MLB experience.
Due to their positions on the 40-man roster, the Yankees had many of their top pitching prospects in Scranton last summer.