Earlier this week, former Yankees farmhand Jorge Mateo was traded from the Oakland Athletics to the San Diego Padres for a player to be named later. It wasn’t exactly an earth-shattering move (though it has the distinction of being the first major league transaction since the coronavirus pandemic shuttered the league back in March).
But Mateo was once one of Yankees’ most highly touted prospects before being shipped to Oakland in a package for Sonny Gray in 2017, and he’s coming off an excellent season for the Athletics’Triple-A affiliate in the Pacific Coast League.