Staten Island Yanks Start Tomorrow

The Yanks are off tomorrow, thankfully, but the SI Yanks will be starting their season against the heinous Brooklyn  Cyclones tomorrow evening. This year's roster has not yet been flooded with fresh draft picks, and that's because the Yanks spent much of day three popping unsignable big time talents, instead of a bunch of seniors to stir things up on Staten Island.

So this year's team is an interesting mix of high talented teenagers and the kind of older guys that couldn't get AB's in Charleston, or pitchers who they just won't give up on, like David Palladino, who will be starting his 4th season in SI, but is 6'9" and could start moving very quickly if he ever put it together. He's 24 and so are Will Carter,  Eduardo Rivera,  Chase Hodson, and Jeff DeGano, the lefty who had TJS in college, which explans his being older than Sevy and Montgomery.

On the younger side, they have Drew Finley, the 20 year old who started in SI last year but got shutdown.  He bears watching because of his upside and because TJS could be next. Jhonny Brito (RHP) is 19 and a 2015 IFA.  He hasn't put up numbers yet, but he's pitching in a college league at 19, so he probably has stuff. Juan DePaula is 19 and has put up big numbers already striking out 121 in 118 2/3's innings with a 2.58 ERA in the Mariners org last season.  Got him for Gamel.  Alexander Vargas is also 19 and coming back from injury.   The rest of the guys are the college guys from the last two drafts who haven't pitched yet this year.

The youngest of the three catchers is 23, the oldest 25.

The big names in the infield are  SS Wilkerman Garcia,  3B Nelson Gomez who are 19 and Oswaldo Cabrera who is 18. Two years ago, Wilkerman lit things up.  Last year he got hurt and tried to play through it, and dinged his status.  Healthy he could do it again.  Owaldo Cabrera was last year's phenom who stumbled out of the gate in Charleston earlier this year, but could light it up again in SI.

The prospects in the OF are Carlos Vidal, 21, who is coming off of an injury but who showed plate disc in his last healthy season.  Kendall Coleman is just 21 though it feels like he's been around longer.  A power prospect who could still breakout.  Leonardo Molina is still just 19 but he also seems like he's been around longer.  He's tooled up, but hasn't really performed yet.  He's got time. 22 year old Dom Thompson-Williams, the fast twitch guy from last year South Carolina Picks, will also be performing, and if power ever shows up, he could move.

It's not as prospect laden as Scranton or Trenton, but it should be fun and it can be a runway and take up place for a bunch of these kids or older players they've been waiting on.

Pulaski starts Thursday, and the GCL starts a week from tomorrow.