07/05: The Barren Wasteland Known as the Yankees Farm System
The Yankees have
signed "blue chip prospect", 16 year old catcher Jesus Montero for $2 million:
"His main assets are his bat and his great arm, but Montero has the complete package and even George Steinbrenner got excited," Rios told Líder newspaper. ...
"The idea," Cashman told the Daily News, "is that in five years everyone will know who he is for the next 20."
Cool. Hopefully he's really 16.
(The title of this entry is a joke. :))
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James wrote:
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Ruben Rivera & Ricky Ledee. Still, very glad to hear about him getting signed though at his size, I can see why people have problems projecting him to stay at C. If he can't, there still needs to be someone else in the system to succeed Posada and the stop-gap after him (i.e. let's hope they sign Tony Pena's kid too - just as backup ;)
This was also why I was so bummed to hear about how little it took to pry Dioneer Navarro away from the Dodgers. He'd have been perfect for the Yanks right now - much better option than Stinnet and could legitimately fill in for Posada in a couple years. He won't be a all-star/HOFer but he would be still have represented one heck of an upgrade.