The Yankees Annual Third Round Prep Pitching Stud, that loose armed fireballer with the developing curve, has indeed signed and will start his long and glorious Yankee career in the GCL. The GCL starts tomorrow, and it is amazing that the Yanks got this done in time for him to get the full league experience. Now we're just waiting on Blake Rutherford and to see if anything else can be worked out. Go Nolan! Go Yanks!
UPDATE: He signed for 1.15M. That's probably a little higher than some expected, but should leave enough for the Yanks to still sign Blake Rutherford. What's more, they could always just blow it out and go after another prep.
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This is an excellent article on the state of the Yankees: http://www.todaysknuckleball.com/new-york-yankees/yankees-lack-planning-hinders-deciding-whether-sell/
He actually ate up about 1/2 the savings from the other picks. Leaves around 3.2 million for Blake. That might make things a bit tougher, although I think it gets done.
MBN -- Unless they were idiots, I doubt they gave that kind of bonus to Nolan without knowing exactly what they need to sign Blake. The only other rational scenario would be that Blake isn't signing at all, in which case they goofed big time just by drafting him, which I doubt. My hunch would be that they're holding him back in order to see if they can sign a prep with what they have left post Blake and then they split the savings with Blake at the end. Cheers! S68.
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