Tag Archives: Adam Warren

Girardi: Mitchell, Phelps, Warren no longer look overmatched

Something that has kind of emerged lately is that David Phelps, Adam Warren, and D.J. Mitchell are very much in the running for a roster spot to start the season with the Yankees. Warren made a start the other day against the Red Sox and Phelps and Mitchell both pitched Thursday against the Orioles. The point ...

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Yankees announce 27 non-roster invitees for spring training

They Yankees announced their list of non-roster 27 players who are on minor league contracts and will be invited to spring training, via Mike Ashmore. Those 27 players plus everyone on the 40-man roster means that there will be 67 players in spring training. The most notable among these are Bill Hall and Russell Branyan because ...

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KLaw ranks Yankees farm system as 10th best in MLB

The Yankees may have lost their top prospect in Jesus Montero earlier this offseason, but that hasn't knocked them out of the top 10 best farm systems in the game, according to Keith Law of ESPN who ranked the Yankees at No. 10. Law didn't seem totally convinced that they should be ranked so high though, ...

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Read: Beyond the Box Score’s Top 12 Yankees Prospects

Here is the latest post ranking the top Yankees prospects and the first one that doesn't have Jesus Montero's name stamped on the top of it. This one comes via Dave Gershman of Beyond the Box Score and is different from typical prospect rankings because he does it by tiers instead of just ranking them as ...

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Yankees Top 20 Prospects from John Sickels

John Sickels of SB Nation actually does one of my favorite prospect rankings only because he grades the prospects on an A/B/C scale and gives a brief for each player as well. Check his website for what the grades mean. These are preliminary rankings that he does before the 2012 Baseball Prospect Book comes out. Take a ...

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Yankees Call-Up Banuelos, 2 Others, But Not to Play

The Yankees called up three minor leaguers yesterday, Manny Banuelos, David Phelps, and Adam Warren, to the big leagues yesterday, but they will not play as they will be inactive, according to Josh Norris of the Trentonian. This is a typical move of the Yankees. Every year they make their September call-ups, guys ...

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Ivan Nova or Adam Warren to Start for Yankees Saturday

The Yankees have a double-header coming up against the Orioles this Saturday so instead of burning out their rotation they have decided to call a pitcher up from the minor leagues. The most obvious choice is Ivan Nova, although he is on the 7-day DL with an ankle problem.  He pitched a simulated game yesterday ...

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Which of the Yankees Top Pitching Prospects Should Be Traded?

The trade deadline draws near and it is an exciting time as the Yankees will look to add pieces to the team for the final stretch run. However, for fans of the farm system this can tend to be a scary time of the year as the Yankees are often the ones losing prospects in ...

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Yankees Cut Hector Noesi, 8 Others

New York Yankees Hector Noesi

The season is getting closer and closer and that means spring training cuts. At the start of spring they had damn near 70 players, but they have cut nine of those players now as they start to get closer to 25. Hector Noesi was potentially the biggest name they cut as he definitely had a ...

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Losing Lee and Pettitte Might be a Blessing in Disguise

New York Yankees Ivan Nova

Going into this offseason most Yankee fans were optimistic. Losing the ALCS did a number on some fans, but even the pessimistic envisioned the Yankees adding Cliff Lee, bringing Andy Pettitte back, and making another run at the World Series in 2011. Unfortunately Lee re-signed with the Phillies and that optimism took a big ...

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