Spring training is around the corner. Baseball season is getting closer! And this time, as of now, there will be a minor league season. That, for the New York Yankees in particular, is extremely important and encouraging given that most of their top-end talent is in the lower minors. These players need games and reps badly to develop.
Several outlets and publications have published their list of top prospects, and the usual names on the Yankees’ organization are Jasson Dominguez, Deivi Garcia, and Clarke Schmidt.
However, Fangraphs’ took it up a notch. Expert Eric Longenhagen published his list of the 47 best prospects in the New York Yankees’ system.
Yankees’ Dominguez is the “highest variance prospect in baseball”
Unsurprisingly, he ranks Dominguez as the best of the bunch, with a 50 “Future Value” evaluation. Longenhagen wrote that “we still only truly know about Dominguez’s showcase tools (what it’s like to watch him take BP and run, both of which are scintillating) and very little about how he’ll perform against pro pitching.”
“It’s hard to find switch-hitters with power like this, let alone ones who already have usable swings from both sides of the plate at this age. Dominguez got very jacked in 2020 and looked more like a Mr. Universe competitor than a baseball prospect,” he said about the Yankees’ teenage phenom, closing with the argument that “he’s the highest-variance prospect in baseball, and maybe the highest-variance athlete in sports.”
Garcia was ranked second by Longenhagen when it comes to Yankees’ prospects. He wrote about him that “the entire repertoire is either average or a shade above it, and I think Garcia will end up working around 140 innings and generating 2-ish WAR annually.”
Here is the complete ranking:
1 Jasson Dominguez CF
2 Deivi Garcia SP
3 Oswald Peraza SS
4 Clarke Schmidt SP
5 Alexander Vargas SS
6 Luis Medina MIRP
7 Kevin Alcantara CF
8 Ezequiel Duran 2B
9 Yoendrys Gomez SP
10 Antonio Gomez C
11 Alexander Vizcaino SIRP
12 Austin Wells RF
13 Luis Gil SIRP
14 Anthony Volpe SS
15 T.J. Sikkema SP
16 Oswaldo Cabrera 2B
17 Everson Pereira CF
18 Josh Smith 2B
19 Ryder Green RF
20 Anthony Seigler C
21 Beck Way RHP
22 Antonio Cabello CF
23 Matt Sauer SP
24 Josh Breaux C
25 Nicio Rodriguez SIRP
26 Anthony Garcia RF
27 Denny Larrondo SP
28 Trevor Hauver 2B
29 Marcos Cabrera 3B
30 Estevan Florial CF
31 Dayro Perez SS
32 Albert Abreu SIRP
33 Brooks Kriske SIRP
34 Alfredo Garcia SIRP
35 Brandon Lockridge CF
36 Glenn Otto SIRP
37 Raimfer Salinas CF
38 Osiel Rodriguez SP
39 Alan Mejia CF
40 Randy Vasquez MIRP
41 Yoljeldriz Diaz SP
42 Roberto Chirinos SS
43 Jake Agnos MIRP
44 Ken Waldichuk MIRP
45 Chris Gittens 1B
46 Nelson L Alvarez SIRP
47 Madison Santos CF