Yankees Draft: Day Three Thoughts

I'm starting to get the feeling that the Yanks don't feel like this draft class is "all that."    Anyway, by tomorrow, they should be able to crunch all the contract numbers on the guys they already have and figure out how to spread the savings over the the next 30 rounds.   It's an awful system.  But they should know whom they want and at what price they can get them.

So who will it be?  Last year they took toolsy Kendall Coleman to start day 3 and he hasn't been heard from yet this year.   Don't be surprised if they go after some high upside preps tomorrow, especially if there savings were good on the 8 collegians they've taken so far.  I was thinking they'd pop a prep catcher, but I think pretty much all of them are gone.   They'll probably draft a collegiate catcher or two just to make sure all these pitchers, they are sure to keep picking have targets.

I also think they'll work the corners some more.  LF and RF and 1st and 3rd, even though they have some good prospects there already.  Feels like all the IFA's are going to up the middle guys, so they may draft for the corners a bit more than usual.

We'll probably also see them make some tribute picks, like when they drafted Andy's kid and Paul Quantrille's kid last year.   Heck, they even signed O'Neill's nephew -- who's currently hanging around the Mendoza line in low A, though he's good athlete and defender.

This, I think is where you really see the scouts's acumen.   It'll be seen in the college sleepers that are uncovered or the under scouted guys from out of the way places -- who are signable.

I'd like to see them get more Greg Bird or Jake Cave types, as well as find another Camerena or so.   And if the talent is there, I want to see them lock it up and not bow down to the commissioner who has pointed 3 straight CBA's right at their faces for the appeasement of small market owners who shouldn't even be allowed to own Major League teams.