TAMPA — Each of the past two years, the Yankees entered spring training with the No. 2-ranked farm system by Baseball America.
They won’t get that tag this spring, but it’s not all for naught.
“Being ranked as everybody’s top farm system isn’t our goal,” Damon Oppenheimer, the Yankees’ head of amateur scouting, said this week at the minor league complex. “Our goal is to be ranked as winning the World Series and going to the playoffs and doing all that kind of stuff.”
The names that not long ago filled the Yankees’ top prospects list now either reside in The Bronx or were shipped elsewhere to bring in major league talent.