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KLaw has 4 Yankees among top 100 prospects

Yesterday we found out that ESPN's prospect guru Keith Law ranked the Yankees farm system as the 10th best in the majors. Today he released his Top 100 Prospects of 2012 list and there were four current Yankee farm hands included. Lefty Manny Banuelos was the only one in the top 25, coming in at No. ...

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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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Yankees have 4 on MLB.com’s Top Prospect list

Jonathan Mayo of MLB.com put together a list of the top 100 prospects in the MLB and the Yankees had four players on the list with two in the top 50. Left handed pitcher, 20-year-old Manny Banuelos was ranked highest among Yankees players at No. 13, one behind the now former Yankee Jesus Montero. Mayo said ...

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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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Quote: Success and Failure got to Sanchez

Gary Sanchez signed with the Yankees for one of the biggest bonuses they ever to a amateur player and then was ranked as the No. 30 prospect in all of baseball by Baseball America shortly after. Then last season he had a huge setback and was even disciplined by the Yankees for attitude problems. It was ...

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Baseball America’s Top 10 Yankees Prospects Pre-2012

It's still not due out for another week or two, but Baseball America's list of the top 10 Yankees prospects was leaked today by River Ave Blues (H/T to @Leokitty). Here is the list: Jesus Montero Manny Banuelos Dellin Betances Gary Sanchez Mason Williams Dante Bichette Jr. Ravel Santana Austin Romine J.R. Murphy Slade Heathcott The Yankees top three has changed as Banuelos and Sanchez have swapped ...

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Rumor: Yankees open to a Russell Martin contract extension

The Yankees tendered a contract to Russell Martin yesterday keeping him in Pinstripes for at least one more year. However, they are thinking of offering the soon to be 29-year-old a long-term deal to keep him as the starting catcher past 2012, according to George King of the NY Post. Cashman told King that there hasn't ...

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Yankees Prospect Gary Sanchez Ranked 14th in Sally

One of the Yankees younger top prospects, Gary Sanchez, had an up and down season that included a brief demotion for behavioral issues and a season ending thumb injury, but it was good enough to land him on Baseball America's Top 20 Prospects of the South Atlantic League list at no. 14. Sanchez, 18, finished ...

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2 More of the Yankees Top Prospects Land on the DL

Update: Good news. The injury to Gary Sanchez is not a significant one. He is out with an abdominal strain and he's only expected to miss "about five days or so," according to Kevin Goldstein of Baseball America. Original post: The Yankees announced that one top prospect in Dellin Betances landed on the DL with ...

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