Yankees 2015 draft, Pt. 2

This is my yearly proviso about some of the inefficiencies that the Yanks tend to take advantage of and the fool's gold I hope they avoid.

Over the Oppenheimer Draft era, the Yanks have often been saddled with late pick, no early picks, and sometimes too little money for picks from the owners.   Because of these conditions the Oppenheimer and the Scouts have had to loo for market inefficiencies to try to make up for some of the value they were missing from the late and missing picks, etc.    

They've done it by popping swing and miss relievers like David Robertson and Jacob Lindgren, picking no leverage seniors with upside like Adam Warren, and taking kids from areas outside the baseball hotbeds, like Dellin Betances from Brooklyn.

Another thing they've done is taken some kids who showed dominance during the year before their draft year, but not as much in their draft year.   Those were generally small bets that they'd find it again.  Phelps was like that, and I assume they really have to good feel for the character of the kids on such picks.

The fool's gold in draft are the collegiate players with draft eligible sophomore status.   People have ponied up for them, but they're really only kids who are a year behind the other kids their age, so they should be measured against juniors and not because they look good for sophomores.  Thus the Yanks shouldn't pay them any extra because they have 2 more years of eligibility instead of one -- let them go on to be old seniors.

We'll start seeing this year's class take shape later today.  Here we go!