Unfortunately, the movement in the rest of the shortstop market was far too massive for Vargas’ drop in the bucket to be memorable. 362 OBP in 42 rookie league games, never making the leap to full-season ball. Vargas’ 2021 season wasn’t a total disaster he hit.
Josh Breaux and Elijah Dunham pretty high as well.- Eli Fishman MaYankees shortstop prospect Alexander Vargas plummets, Elijah Dunham and Oswaldo Cabrera rise in Baseball America rankings
Luis Gil makes the jump to the #4 spot, Hayden Wesneski at #6, Oswaldo Cabrera at #8. Though the publication’s new Yankees Top 30 list is under lock and key (subscription required), young prospect insider Eli Fishman has given us just enough of a peek behind the curtain to get the vibes of the projections.įans should be largely encouraged (yet again!) by this latest future outlook, but one shortstop prospect in a more-crowded-than-ever middle infield picture won’t love the list quite as much as the masses will: 20-year-old Alexander Vargas.īiggest movers? Yankees pitching prospects Luis Gil and Hayden Wesneski, who’ve reached the upper echelon, as well as potential 2022 MLB infield depth piece Oswaldo Cabrera and our prospect crush Elijah Dunham?īummer? Only Vargas, who has found himself crowded out of the top group through very little fault of his own.īaseball America has released their Top 30 Yankees prospects ahead of the 2022 season. If you’re wildly optimistic, the experts are beginning to agree with you, from MLB Pipeline to FanGraphs to ESPN to now Baseball America, the long-time leader in the industry.
That increased depth is the reason Brian Cashman was able to pull off Joey Gallo/Anthony Rizzo trades without doing anything truly painful, unless you loved and wanted to protect Josh Smith from 40-man poachers. Don’t let the haters get you down: the New York Yankees farm system is stacked, both at the tippy-top and in the middle.
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