Taking the Pulse of the Yankee Farm System
The people who run baseball are busy doing what they do best. No sleep for them until they finish setting the game back a solid 30 years by cancelling part of their season and making it as joyless as it could possibly be. Fear not, by the time fall rolls around, the MLB commissioner will wonder aloud why interest in the game is waning, then curiously point to "analytics" as the main reason. I have a headache just thinking about it, but I digress. With the start of the 2022 baseball season nowhere in sight, I want to take the opportunity to write about a group of people that baseball owners unequivocally care nothing about: young men trying to become major league baseball players. The venerable Keith Law at The Athletic has released his annual Top 100 MLB Prospect list . The young Yankees on this list are of particular interest given that the only way the big league team is going to get out of its current rut is through home-grown players. Over the last 20 years the organizat