Last week, Baseball Prospectus unofficially kicked off prospect season by unveiling the first of their top-10 prospects lists. They started off with the AL East, running down the best prospects in the Rays, Orioles, Red Sox, and Yankees systems so far. BP’s prospect work is invaluable every year, and you can check out their Yankees list here.
After reading through BP’s view on the Yankees system, here are a few top-level takeaways about the state of the farm:
We’ve written at length before about the Yankees’ apparent monopoly on a particular type of prospect: the hard-throwing, tantalizing, right-handed pitching prospect.