Nightly Links: Garcia, Budget, Old People

By On March 1, 2012 · 5 Comments · In Link Dump

The team has finally placed a competitive bid on one of the many big name international free agents this offseason, Adonis Garcia $16m over 6 years. The team plans to convert the righty to an outfielder. Hal Steinbrenner confirmed that the $189 million budget for 2014 is very real. The team [...]

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Yankee Top Ten Relief Prospects (Part 2)

By On March 1, 2012 · 2 Comments · In Prospects

As I’ve said before, the Yankees have been the best organization at developing relief pitchers over the last decade. With all these top prospect lists heading our way, I rarely see much loving handed out to the relief pitchers, so I figured we could focus on an impressive group of guys that could become the [...]

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Burnett can’t catch a break

By On March 1, 2012 · 3 Comments · In Former Players

I guess this no longer qualifies as Yankee news, but AJ Burnett’s career for the Pittsburgh Pirates has gotten off to a rocky start.  In what could only be described as an unfortunate fluke, Burnett fouled a ball into his face while practicing his bunting at Spring Training.  The video is , and [...]

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Pat Venditte: Novelty Act or Viable Bullpen Prospect?

By On March 1, 2012 · 10 Comments · In Prospects

One of the more intriguing members of the Yankee farm system is a player who hasn’t showed up on any of the top prospect lists I’ve seen over the past few months and likely never will. That player is Pat Venditte, the ambidextrous relief pitcher from Double-A Trenton. Venditte is conversation-worthy because his [...]

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TYA Roundtable: Moving propsects

By On March 1, 2012 · 1 Comment · In Prospects, Roundtable

In our daily email chain, the writers of TYA and I had a hard time deciding what to call this. After all, we did a similar thread the other day about sleeper prospects. But this is a bit different. For that thread, we were talking about prospects we thought might fly under the [...]

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