Yankee System: The Influx

Hate Yankee losses.  So let's talk about something that's going to happen in the next few days.  Tomorrow and Tuesday, the Pulaski Yankee and GCL Yanks West and East will start playing and at that point, we'll see who's here. As you'll recall, the Yanks got CF Everson Pereira, and others on July 2, 2017 as well as a few others. Then in expectation of taking a run at Ohtani, they traded for more and more IFA space, until they hit the league max. Now, I think SS Ronny Rojas was in the original budget and just had a late birthday, but they had targets they were going to move into this year's budget, but instead got to sign CF Raimfer Salinas and C turned CF Antonio Cabello this past fall, plus, seemingly one or two more per month, till the signing period for `17/`18 ended this past Friday.  Rojas is still just 16 and may stay over in the DSL, which he is DOMINATING all season.  But the three CF's are coming over and have drawn comparison's to Florial as their floor. They are all 5 toolers and that's not all that seems to be coming.

They have two more shortstops in Ezekial Duran and Robert Chirinos. Duran, especially, has been getting massive love in the prospect community for his light tower power, but Chirinos is also all tooled up and might put on a show. They have another RF type he might be over named Stanley Rosario, who's a left swinger with huge power. We'll have to see who else is over, but this undercover class already looks like it has more upside than the `14/`15 class, and there seem to be more of them coming over this year than there were three years ago.

Beyond that, the Yanks will also have Seigler, Green, Alex Guerrero and the mysterious Sincere Smith in the GCL.  The Bro will probably be at Pulaski, but last year's rehabbing first rounder, Clarke Schmidt will probably get some GCL starts, while last year's prep #2 Matt Sauer threw 6 no-hit innings for SI on Friday Night.

So, even though the Yanks lost today, and sent a good chunk of talent packing since last July, there's a likelihood, we'll see that it's been more than replaced this week, so that will be a blast.

UPDATE: It's being reported that CF Everson Pereira and SS Ezekial Duran are going to start the season with Pulaski, which may be because there are multiple CF's and SS's who need slots on the 3 new teams, but that it is those 2 is really impressive for those two. I think they are both just 17, though Duran may turn 18 this year.  He was like Florial in that he had some sort of registration stuff that delayed his signing. Still, this is big news, espectially if they perform half a level up.  You might recall that Sensely and Dermis Garcia started at Pulaski and got promoted during the season last year. And they were 21 and 19 or something.  Interesting stuff.

UPDATE 2: GCL is underway!  Just from the looks of it, GCL West is LOADED!  Today, they have Lockridge (80 speed) playing CF,  Seigler playing C - these are the first two 18 picks to play in games, and they have Robert Chirinos at SS and power hitting OF Stanley Rosario playing Left and Antonio Cabello batting DH. Neither Raimfer Salinas nor Ryder Green are playing for either GCL team today. Will look at the full rosters later, but this team could probably beat the O's. Hmm, Raimfer Salinas is on the GCL East roster, but isn't playing today.  Both teams are losing, and the loaded West team is being no-hit so far.  That's baseball, Suzyn.