Under is an evaluation of the prospects within the farm system of the New York Yankees. Scouting studies had been compiled with data supplied by trade sources in addition to our personal observations. That is the sixth 12 months we’re delineating between two anticipated aid roles, the abbreviations for which you’ll see within the “place” column beneath: MIRP for multi-inning aid pitchers, and SIRP for single-inning aid pitchers. The ETAs listed typically correspond to the 12 months a participant must be added to the 40-man roster to keep away from being made eligible for the Rule 5 draft. Handbook changes are made the place they appear applicable, however we use that as a rule of thumb.
A fast overview of what FV (Future Worth) means might be discovered right here. A a lot deeper overview might be discovered right here.
The entire ranked prospects beneath additionally seem on The Board, a useful resource the location provides that includes sortable scouting data for each group. It has extra particulars (and up to date TrackMan information from numerous sources) than this text and integrates each group’s checklist so readers can examine prospects throughout farm programs. It may be discovered right here.
Different Prospects of Notice
Grouped by sort and listed so as of choice inside every class.
Fallen Well-known Names
Brando Mayea, CF
Roderick Arias, SS
Ruben Castillo, CF
Francisco Vilorio, OF
Mani Cedeno, SS
Luis Serna, RHP
Jerson Alejandro, RHP
Mayea signed for greater than $4 million in 2023 and initially seemed like an Albert Almora Jr. or Manuel Margot sort of outfielder, however he shortly began whiffing an excessive amount of for that to carry. He was having a greater 2025 (a minimum of on the floor), with an .830 OPS, earlier than an ankle damage ended his season. Mayea’s contact fee repeating the FCL was nonetheless effectively beneath 70%, so it’s powerful to incorporate him on the primary part of the checklist as if he’d nonetheless be valued in a commerce. Arias, who signed for $4 million in 2022, repeated Low-A in 2025, however as soon as once more made contact at a fee (65%) that’s too low to contemplate him a prospect. He nonetheless has low-ball energy and arm power, the latter of which could facilitate a transfer to the mound. Castillo is an effective athlete and a plus runner who can play heart. He has a manipulable however lengthy swing, and he must get stronger to make it work in the long term.
Vilorio is tall, with huge league measurement and exit velocities, and tasks to have plus energy. His swing is grooved and spin poses an actual drawback for him. Cedeno obtained $2.5 million within the worldwide market. He’s athletic with projectable energy, however he doesn’t look snug within the field, and the 75% whiff fee he registered on spin is the reddest flag we’ve seen this checklist cycle. Serna is a 5-foot-11 Mexican righty with changeup. He returned from elbow surgical procedure late final 12 months and obtained shelled. At his peak, he seemed like a no. 5/6 starter sort, and a few of our sources like him greater than that, however he hasn’t been constantly wholesome and efficient for a number of years now. Alejandro is a huge college-aged righty with slider who popped on the radar in 2023. He regressed as a strike-thrower in 2024, then missed 2025 attributable to elbow surgical procedure.
Lefty Aid Prospects
Kyle Carr, LHP
Geoffrey Gilbert, LHP
Pico Kohn, LHP
Franyer Herrera, LHP
A former third-round pick of Palomar Faculty, the 23-year-old Carr posted a 1.96 ERA at Hudson Valley final 12 months. He’s a vert slot lefty who sits about 90 and can flash an above-average slider. If his stuff ticks up in aid, he might be a lefty specialist. Gilbert, a 2022 thirteenth rounder out of Clemson, is a soft-tossing lefty with a fantastic slider who might additionally turn into a lefty specialist. He’s been throwing his changeup a ton in his Grapefruit League outings up to now this spring, as if the Yankees are looking for one thing that may maintain hitters off his 89-mph fastball. Kohn, the Yankees’ fourth rounder final 12 months, is a bodily (however athletically stiff) lefty with slider. He sat 90-93 working as a starter at Mississippi State and is again in that vary this spring. He seems like — you guessed it — a possible lefty specialist. After a profitable, wholesome 2024 season as a DSL starter, the Yankees moved the 20-year-old Herrera to the bullpen final 12 months as he obtained his first style of professional ball in Florida. He has changeup, however the remainder of his combine is a bit beneath common.
Rookie Arms
Rafael Arias, RHP
Randy Angomas, RHP
Enixon Sanchez, RHP
An older signee with two DSL years underneath his belt, Arias touches 96 and misses a variety of bats together with his slider, and his velo was additionally up a tick final 12 months. Angomas is a low-slot righty who touches 95. He will get practically 3,000 rpm on his sweeping slider, which overwhelmed DSL batters, and he has a purposeful change as effectively. He didn’t throw a ton of strikes, although, and he’s not particularly projectable. Sanchez is an effective athlete who can spin it, and each his change and slider flash above common. He’s as much as 95, albeit with dangerous form, and he’s not holding his finest stuff deep into video games.
Place Participant Sampler Platter
Leni Accomplished, 3B
Core Jackson, SS
Jace Avina, CF
Jackson Castillo, CF
Estivenzon Montero, RF
Jackson Lovich, 1B
Juan Torres, 2B
Accomplished has common energy already and room for extra. He didn’t debut till he was practically 18, so remember the fact that he was a bit extra bodily developed than your typical DSL rookie. Jackson is a slick-fielding shortstop who was off some groups’ draft boards as a result of he drew a swastika on a Jewish classmate’s door whereas he was a freshman at Nebraska; he had an impaired driving incident at Utah a few years later. The Yankees used a fifth-round decide on him final 12 months and assigned him to Hudson Valley, the place he struggled to hit. We’re skeptical he’ll make sufficient contact towards professional pitching. He’s good defender, nonetheless, and posted some huge top-end exit velos at Utah.
Avina was a Brewers’ highschool draftee in 2021 who was traded to the Yankees for Jake Bauers late in 2023 and reached Double-A final 12 months. He’s a fringe heart subject defender who’s geared to drag within the excessive on offense. Regardless of middling uncooked thump, his excessive pull/carry strategy has allowed him to hit for some energy within the mid-minors. Finally, we predict Avina’s swing shall be too susceptible towards excessive fastballs for him to have constant huge league success. A junior faculty draftee out of Southern Nevada, Castillo is a compact, lefty-hitting outfielder who has the offensive abilities (50 hit, 40 energy) to be a part-time piece if he develops in heart subject, the place he’s at present fairly uncooked. Montero had a critical uptick in manufacturing in his second DSL season, with a .287/.389/.510 line and eight homers, however he nonetheless had a contact fee effectively underneath 70%. Lovich is a bodily, 6-foot-4, righty-hitting slugger out of Missouri who might not get to his energy due to extreme strikeouts. Torres, a small-dollar signee, was the Yankees’ finest statistical performer within the DSL final 12 months. He has quick levers, good bat management, and might play second base. He hit a number of homers, however he isn’t particularly sturdy or projectable.
Righty Relievers
Jose M. Rodriguez, RHP
Harrison Cohen, RHP
Mac Heuer, RHP
Zach Messinger, RHP
Michael Arias, RHP
Eric Reyzelman, RHP
Hayden Merda, RHP
Chris Veach, RHP
Matt Keating, RHP
Rodriguez is a bit bit behind the developmental curve as a 22-year-old who solely left rookie ball in the midst of final season. His management and fastball velocity are beneath common, however his changeup and curveball are each plus pitches, and if he’s in a position to throttle down his walks (46 in simply 72 innings final 12 months), the Yankees might need a Tommy Kahnle sequel on their fingers. Cohen is a cutter-heavy reliever with a misleading, quick-armed supply and a median changeup. He struck out a bit greater than a batter per inning within the higher ranges of the minors final 12 months, but additionally walked practically 15% of opponents, a bit an excessive amount of for the primary part of the checklist from a man sitting 93. Heuer, an over-slot eighth rounder final 12 months, is a square-bodied righty with a naturally slicing fastball that can peak at 98 mph. He struggled as a starter at Texas Tech, however groups, together with the Yankees, have taken undercooked elements from Lubbock and whipped them into one thing earlier than.
Messinger has been on the periphery of Yankees lists as a depth starter since 2023. He moved to the bullpen in 2025 and had a velo spike all through the season, which he began sitting 90-93 and ended sitting 94-95. That has continued into the beginning of 2026, as Messinger has been within the 94-97 mph vary together with his fastballs in early Grapefruit League outings, and he now seems to have a better arm slot. Extra vital than Messinger’s velo is how his secondary pitches will play from the brand new slot, as they’ve generated generic swing and miss outcomes up to now. He wants a second plus pitch to profile as a giant league bullpen arm. Arias was initially a shortstop within the Blue Jays system however was launched earlier than he ever took a professional at-bat. He ended up shifting to the mound and signing with the Cubs, turning into an thrilling low-slot reliever with a plus fastball/changeup mixture. Arias was placed on the Cubs’ 40-man after the 2023 season however struggled to manage the baseball, so he was finally DFA’ed, traded to the Yankees, and was introduced again on a minor league deal this offseason.
Reyzelman seemed like he was within the categorical lane to the again of the Yankees bullpen in 2024, as his fastball and slider performed like elite pitches and he Okay’d 14 per 9 at Double-A. In 2025, he misplaced practically three ticks from his stuff and walked a batter per inning. He’s purely in bounce-back territory now. Merda, who spent 2025 cut up between Excessive- and Double-A after lacking the prior season with damage, has a lethal slider and can prime out at 98 (sitting 93-95). Veach is a 2024 undrafted free agent out of South Carolina who Okay’d 75 guys in 57 A-ball innings final 12 months due to heavy use of a cool changeup that’s typically 15 mph slower than his fastball. Keating is a former ninth rounder out of USC whose slider/cutter combo generated plus-plus miss in A-ball final 12 months; the remainder of his repertoire is beneath common.
System Overview
The Yankees have a top-heavy system that resides among the many backside handful in baseball, however solely a part of that is because of strategic missteps and an precise failure to domesticate expertise. This technique is without doubt one of the shallowest within the league principally due to trades so as to add to the massive league group. 4 prospects within the Ryan Weathers deal, 4 within the Camilo Doval commerce, two for Jake Chicken, three for David Bednar, two every for Ryan McMahon and Amed Rosario — that’s half a farm system dealt away since final July. The Yankees’ skill to show later draft picks into one thing of worth on the commerce market continues to be a gentle side of their operation.
That’s a part of why their strategy within the worldwide market has been so irritating. Groups with good participant improvement are likely to feed their programs with depth, after which apply good teaching and coaching to as many viable prospects as potential. Since MLB adopted its present worldwide signing format, the Yankees’ technique has typically been to pay simply a few gamers, and generally only one man, an enormous chunk of their annual bonus pool. That strategy makes it vital for the high-dollar signees to pan out, or else you’ve whiffed on a whole class in a talent-rich market, and within the Yankees’ case, they’ve did not hit on these guys too typically of late. The membership selected to not renew the contract of longtime worldwide scouting director Donny Rowland, who had been with the membership for 23 years, after final season. Although this would possibly in the end be the appropriate determination, it did have a right away destructive consequence, as Wandy Asigen, the Yankees’ prime 2026 commit and arguably the highest participant in your complete class, backed out of his deal and sought employment throughout city within the aftermath of Rowland’s dismissal. Asigen would have ranked seventh right here.
The Yankees have to discover a solution to inject this technique with place participant expertise. They’ve graduated Austin Wells, Ben Rice, Jasson Domínguez and Anthony Volpe since 2023, and although that group has had rising pains, that’s a fairly good three-year chunk of place participant rookies (Will Warren and Cam Schlittler are good, too). However now the cabinet is naked whereas a 3rd of their projected starters (Paul Goldschmidt, Trent Grisham, and Jazz Chisholm Jr.) are set to be free brokers after this season, and possession appears much less apt to resolve the membership’s issues with cash than they had been when George was alive. Spencer Jones and George Lombard Jr. are arguably in place to switch Grisham and Chisholm, however each have hit device threat and we’d be shocked in the event that they each hit the bottom working. This appears like a do or die 12 months.