Yankees GCL1 Loses Championship Final

So Yankees1 lost their best out of three championship series today.  That's too bad for the kids, who advanced to to finals after beating Yankees2 in a one game semifinal.    I think they might have done a little better if they had only one team, but, in general it was a pretty good season for both.

We all know that Jorge Mateo, who looked like a break out star, missed most of the season, but guys like Cuevas and Palma had good season as did some of the other Yankee youngsters.   Both teams were hurt by the dearth of prep picks the Yanks had this year.  But over the next few years both teams will be buoyed by the huge 2014 IFA haul that started in July.

I think the biggest let down from an organizational point of view was the failure of any of the young hard throwers, whether it was DeCarr or any of the latin kids, to really step up and dominate the league like Severino did last year, and some of the other guys have done over the years.   We'll have to see what they throwing, but, the no one put up a monster stat line.   So we'll have to see if there's a break in the chain or not.

Ty Hensley did come back and earn a promotion which is great news for the system, but none of the other 20 and unders in the GCL really set the world on fire, and that bears watching.