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The Yankee Beat: blown saves, Banuelos, and CC

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Rob Abruzzese

The Yankees picked up a quick, easy win today as Hiroki Kuroda cruised through eight innings as they beat the Angels 5-0 at the home opener. Read our recap here. The Captain's Blog asks is this is the year of the blown save? Maybe, but just not in the Bronx. It's About the Money thinks that the ...

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Profiling the Empire State Yankees Starting Rotation

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Greg Corcoran

One of the more interesting stories in the minors this season will be the Triple-A starting rotation. David Phelps, Adam Warren, D.J. Mitchell, Manny Banuelos, and Dellin Betances all could begin the year as starters. Manny and Dellin represent high ceiling talents still a year or so away from contributing to the major league team. Phelps, ...

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Yankees minor league news: DePaula, Adams, Santana, & ManBan

Posted on March 29, 2012 by Rob Abruzzese

Here are some notes on a few of the Yankees minor leaguers. Rafael DePaula was working out with Charleston this week, a sign that he has passed his physical and is officially a Yankee (Norris). David Adams has been told he will start the season with Double-A Trenton, the same team he started the 2010 season with ...

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Scouts like what they saw out of Banuelos this spring

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Rob Abruzzese

The Yankees top prospect Manny Banuelos was among the first cut from spring training last week, but it wasn't for performance reasons if you believe a scout who talked to ESPN's Kevin Goldstein. "I had not seen him since last spring, and he just looks strong and more poised," a National League scout told Goldstein. "He's 93-96 ...

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Yankees cut Banuelos and 13 others

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Rob Abruzzese

The Yankees have had roughly 67 players in spring training so far, but they began cuts today starting with their top prospect Manny Banuelos, according to Chad Jennings of the Journal News. Four players on the 40-man roster were cut including Corban Joseph, David Adams, Zoilo Almonte, Melky Mesa. The other cuts were C Gary Sanchez, ...

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KLaw has 4 Yankees among top 100 prospects

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Rob Abruzzese

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

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Rob Abruzzese

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

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Rob Abruzzese

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

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Rob Abruzzese

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

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Rob Abruzzese

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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