After the Yankees picked school pitchers with their first seven alternatives of the MLB novice draft, it appeared honest to wonder if the group was attempting to make up for a few of the pitching depth it misplaced in current trades in an try to enhance the key league roster.
Damon Oppenheimer, the group’s longtime vp and director of novice scouting insisted that wasn’t the case.
However he did acknowledge Thursday throughout a Zoom name that the Yankees do have a look at pitchers as simpler to get to the big-league stage.
“I feel the technique for us is to attempt to take the most effective out there,’’ Oppenheimer mentioned. “It might have been a few place gamers. We’ve accomplished numerous analysis on what will get to the large leagues and pitching, you may develop and get it there. You want numerous pitching to carry up over time. These days, it’s so laborious to hit, why not assault one thing that’s laborious?”
And he added it was extra a product of how the draft fell that the Yankees ended up taking 19 school gamers out of the 20 drafted.
“It might have been 4 highschool guys in our prime 10,’’ Oppenheimer mentioned. “It simply flips this manner for you.”
Oppenheimer additionally mentioned he was “assured” the Yankees would signal a “majority” of their gamers. They’ve till Aug. 1 to take action, together with prime decide, RHP Ben Hess, who was chosen twenty sixth total out of Alabama.
There was thought the Yankees might signal Hess to an underslot worth due to his harm historical past, however Oppenheimer mentioned Hess was “wholesome” on the scouting mix.
As if the Yankees didn’t have already got sufficient points heading into the second half, coming off their worst few weeks of the season, they determine to be with out Jose Trevino for “some time,” supervisor Aaron Boone mentioned earlier than the break.
Trevino was placed on the 10-day injured checklist when he suffered a Grade 2 quad pressure towards the Orioles and that sort of harm could cause an absence of as much as 4 to 6 weeks.
Carlos Narvaez was referred to as up from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, however didn’t seem in any video games final weekend, as Austin Wells caught the ultimate two video games of the sequence.
Wells had beforehand earned extra enjoying time over Trevino, but when Trevino is out for an prolonged time frame, the Yankees might be pressured so as to add one other goal earlier than the July 30 commerce deadline.
JD Davis is eligible to come back off the IL after the break, however the Yankees are set to face 4 straight right-handers once they open the second half towards the Rays.
Davis’ substitute, prospect Jorbit Vivas, didn’t play after being recalled from SWB.
The lefty-swinging prospect, very like Narvaez, was clearly in Baltimore solely in case of emergency.
He was optioned again to Triple-A.
