Yankees Draft: To BPA or to Budget it out?

There are really only 2 Draft plans available to the Yanks in any given year.  First is to go BPA with the picks, knowing full well you will have to pay substantial penalties to get them signed.   The advantage of doing it this way is that you can add a lot of talent with an open checkbook.   The downside is that you lose future picks.

The other way is the way they have been playing it.  Which is to try to take some slot guys early, then balance out the top 10 rounds by picking college seniors, who have no leverage, and will sign for pennies.  Then using those savings to sign high upside talent after round 10.    The advantage to doing it this way is that you don't forfeit any future picks.  The disadvantage is that you're bound to get less talent as the pool continues to shrink as you screw around.

So those are their options and we should have an idea of which way they will go by around round 7 tomorrow.   The Yanks hopefully already know what they are going to do.

If the rumors of great pitching depth are true, and next year's crop isn't looking as deep, they should definitely go with plan A.   They'd probably squander their next year's first on a subpar FA, anyway.