GCL Yankees East

Alright, now let's take a look of GCL Yankees East, they don't have the high gloss shine of a switch hitting teen catcher, but they do have a cat named Raimfer, who can rake.

C

Gustavo Campero
Pedro Diaz
Gaberial Mora
Miguel Torres

Gustavo Campero IS a switch hitting C, but he's just 5'6"  (and 185!) and turning 21 this year. Pedro Diaz will also turn 21 later this year and is 6'2" and 202. He was actually signed in September of 16, and will be 18 this season. Miguel Torres is an ince taller than Mora, and also signed in 2016, and will be 18 all year. None of the young guys have played yet, and we'll have to see who gets the bulk of the playing time.

Infielders

Asdrubal Alvarez SS
Jose Carrera 3B
Brayan Jimenez 2B
Borinquen Mendez 2B
Sandy Mota 3B
Starlin Paulino SS
Jose Villa 3B

There's no hot prospect in this group, and Jose Carrera is listed as just 5'2" and will be 24 this year, if he's not already.  I guess they're going to take turn playing first, because there's no 1B.  Starlin Paulino signed in May of 2017, which actually puts him in the class of '16.  He's just 18, the other guys are 18-22. We'll see if anyone pops up.

Outfielders

Christiane Andrade OF
Bryant Arrieche OF
Luis Martinez CF
Raymundo Moreno LF
Raimfer Salinas RF
Alexander Santana OF
Jesus Severino OF

Raimfer Salinas is the big ticket here. Surprising that they are listing him as a RF since he was signed last fall as a CF, and seemed to have CF tools. If they were going to play him at CF at all they probably would have listed him as "OF" like some of these other guys.  Raimfer is one of the big prospects from HC17, and overally, this is a really young group.  Amazingly Bryant Arrieche who won't turn 17 till later this month, is already in the states at 16. He's presumably from the HC17, and being here at 16 is something.  Ronny Rojas is destroying the DSL as a 16 year old and he's not here. So Bryant is a guy to watch.  Martinez will turn 20 late in the year.  Raymundo Moreno has been around for awhile and was part of the class of `14, though he's still just 20.  He's been injured a bit but better get a move on it.  Salinas is a July `16 guy and still 18.  Jesus Severino is also a July `16 signing.  So, basically this group is Raimfer, maybe Bryant and a bunch of young IFA signings from the past few years. A pop up player from this group would be a great thing.

Pitchers

Albert Carrizo
Derek Craft
Jairo Garcia
Imael Gomez
Yoendrys Gomez
Gaberiel Gonzalez
Tony Hernandez L
Anyelo Luna
Daniel Martin
Alex Mejias
Anderson Munoz
Luis Ojeda
Elvis Peguero
Adonny Roja
Juan Then

Okay, only one lefty.  We are a little organizationally bereft.  But you can't create lefties out of thin air, and so we must be patient.  Now Derek Craft is a 6'8" reliever from this year's draft.  I guarantee they will get him to throw harder.  The other big item is Juan Then, who is a Yankees Top 30 prospect. Then is listed as 6'1" and 155.  Yanks went through a period when they were getting a lot of big pitchers, and drafting smaller relievers.  Now it's all spin rate and they might have found a market inefficiency in these 5'11" to 6'1" guys, like Then, and Johnny Lasgna, and Sevy, etc. Not the typical power pitcher profile of old, but all with electric, moving stuff.  We'll see if anyone else pops up on this staff.  No one's particularly old, and with pitching, it doesn't matter if you can get people out.

So there we are.  Maybe better pitch, but certainly a less impressive group of position players than GCL West.

Pulaski starts today!