What made the acquisitions of Gleyber Torres, Justus Sheffield, Clint Frazier, Al Abreu, and Jorge Guzman so great isn’t just that Brian Cashman flipped extra depth for prospects, it’s that he flipped extra depth for prospects with a rising stock. Frazier was a top 50-type, Torres is now a top 10-type, and Abreu and Guzman round out the back of most of the industry’s top 100 lists after being unranked. Justus Sheffield has now made the jump from 80th-90th overall to a top 50-type himself.
Sheffield was born in Tullahoma, Tennessee on May 13, 1996, and graduated from Tullahoma High School, tossing multiple no-hitters and finishing his senior year with a 0.