(Don't sleep on this guy. Courtesy of Mike Ashmore)
This has not been a good season for the Yankee farm system. EJ Fagan made that perfectly clear yesterday in his evaluation of the Manny Banuelos shutdown story, which was much more level-headed than mine. By my count, the Yankees have seen 4 of their top 5, 5 of their top 8, and 7 of their top 12 prospects miss time with injuries this season, and have had another handful of their top 20 have fantastically bad years (see: Betances, Dellin or Bichette, Jr., Dante). I guess the one good thing about all of this is that at least Jesus Montero hasn't gone over to Seattle and started becoming the next Miguel Cabrera, right? But fear not, Yankee fans, because all hope is not lost. The injured will return to full health at some point, and further down the prospect food chain there have been some strong performances in the Yankee system this year. The names aren't as sexy as the ones filling up the disabled lists, but their results do provide a bit of comfort in the face of all the injury/regression devastation.
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