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Yankees Tyler Wade Could Challenge Starlin Castro Next Season

21-year-old shortstop Tyler Wade has continued his steady climb up the New York Yankees minor league ladder in 2016. His production is never eye-popping, but he has been a consistently solid performer every year since the team took him in the fourth round of the 2013 June amateur draft.

Through 119 games with the Double-A Trenton Thunder, Wade is hitting .274/.372/.371 (113 wRC+) with five home runs and 23 stolen bases in 520 plate appearances.

That is more or less his prototypical season at this point. Good contact skills, lots of walks, very little power. He has the skills to be a table-setter at the top of a lineup if he reaches his ceiling, but might more realistically be a scrappy number nine type hitter.