“Cash-god” made LOTS of moves at the deadline. It was without a doubt one of the biggest trade deadlines we’ve seen in a while across all of baseball (unless your team is named the Braves) in what we were told was going to be one of the quietest years because “no one was available”. The …
Read more “A prospect hugger’s thoughts on the trades the Yankees completed”
The MLB trade deadline is less than a week away, and teams are typically scurrying around to various Minor League affiliates of the organizations they want to make deals with. In regard to the upcoming trade deadline, teams may seek to flip prospects they’ll have to protect by adding to the 40-man roster instead of …
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Saturday’s Yankees versus Red Sox game came under scrutiny when DJ LeMahieu hit the chalk on the 1st base foul line, but the play was called “foul”. It’s a judgment call, initially. Yankees manager Aaron Boone later argued that that judgment call set a poor standard for the potential of the call getting overturned. After …
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Built for this. Born for this. Here we are. Or at least, ChatGPT thinks so. Of the two LLMs (Large Language Models), I, and others, preferred ChatGPT. Gemini is great for a lot of things, but no matter how I tweaked the commands, it kept throwing me lists of players that had already been drafted …
Read more “Mock 2025 MLB Draft – Part 3: Putting It All Together”
Many outlets have teams on their staff that discuss college prospects and generate mock MLB drafts in the weeks and months leading up to the actual draft in July. We’re just a small team of two at Yankees Savant, so we decided to outsource our mock draft to AI to see what they would generate. …
Many outlets have teams on their staff that discuss college prospects and generate mock MLB drafts in the weeks and months leading up to the actual draft in July. We’re just a small team of two at Yankees Savant, so we decided to outsource our mock draft to AI to see what they would generate. …
Yankees Savant presents our top 10 prospect list for the New York Yankees farm system. There may be a few more surprises here than other lists, along with a bit more honesty than other outlets.
I had the opportunity to catch up on Yankees right-handed pitching prospect Carson Coleman earlier today after a brief appearance in Tampa, FL on rehab. To catch things up, Coleman was signed as a free agent during the pandemic in June 2020, and didn’t debut until May 5, 2021 with Low-A Tampa. He spent the …
It was announced earlier today that LHP Griffin Herring and OF Tyler Wilson were both named (in a sweep!) the Florida State League Pitcher and Player of the Week, respectively. It’s rare to see a prospect perform the same or better in the pros compared to his collegiate career, but that’s exactly what Tarpons LHP …
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I had the fortunate opportunity to check out the new FCL Yankees team in breezy Dunedin, FL, the home of the beautiful Toronto Blue Jays complex. The Yankees got off to a loud start with a lead-off home run by top prospect Brando Mayea, but that was the extent of the score by the Baby …