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Seven Yankees Included In MLB Pipeline's Top 100 Prospects

Updated Mar. 5, 2020 12:28 a.m. ET

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MLB Pipeline concluded their preseason rankings for the top 100 prospects in all of baseball. The best and brightest Yankees are scattered throughout.

Seven. That’s how many Yankees prospects you’ll find on MLB Pipeline’s compilation of the top 100 prospects with less than 130 Major League at-bats. So for all those yelling at Twitter as to how Andrew Benintendi of the Red Sox could still be atop this list after absolutely mashing in Boston for over a month — remember, he was injured in late August and only accumulated 105 at-bats before missing the remainder of the ’16 season.

Tied with the Braves for the most prospects of any team to populate this list, the Yankees’ Gleyber Torres is actually one spot higher than Atlanta’s Dansby Swanson, in addition to being named a runner-up for overall ‘Best Hitter’ — so there’s a feather in our cap.

The rest of the Yankees’ crop includes Clint Frazier (No. 24) and Justus Sheffield (No. 79), both of whom were acquired in the Andrew Miller deal. The organization’s previous three first-round draft picks (2016, ’15, and ’13, respectively), Blake Rutherford (No. 37), James Kaprielian (No. 58), and Aaron Judge (No. 45) are there as well.

As for Jorge Mateo (No. 47), he was named the fastest runner of all top 100 prospects by Jim Callis, in his ‘Best Tools’ review.

In his piece, Callis wrote:

For fans wondering why Chance Adams and Miguel Andujar are nowhere to be found — should they continue to excel in the early part of 2017, both have a real chance of making MLB Pipeline’s ’17 midseason top 100 list.

Overall, the Yankees took the ‘prospect points’ title with 414 points. This is largely due to the fact that five of their seven prospects fell within the top 50 selections.

MLB.com columnist Jonathan Mayo says ‘prospect points’ are a good indication of what’s to come from stars in the making.

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As for players who no longer find themselves in the newest edition of these rankings, there is right-hander Dillon Tate, who was previously ranked at No. 36 before struggling mightily in ’16, and Gary Sanchez who graduated from prospect to runner-up to the AL Rookie of the Year Award.

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