The Yankees’ minor league system is deep, and the annual minor league draft penalizes depth.
Each winter, prospects who have reached certain professional-experience thresholds and who have not yet received a shot — who are not yet on a 40-man roster — can be selected and added to another team’s major league roster immediately.
If that player survives the entire following season in the majors with his new team, he becomes a full-fledged member of the new organization. If the drafting team decides it no longer has space for him on its 26-man roster , he would have to be offered back to his prior organization. The Rule 5 draft is a special time for prospects who are desperate for their chance. Mitch Spence logged 426 ⅓ minor league innings with the Yankees before he was grabbed first overall by the A’s in last December’s Rule 5 draft.Mitch Spence made 35 appearances, 24 of them starts, for the A's this past season after Oakland selected the former Yankees prospect in the Rule 5 Draft.The Yankees' lack of a true first base option on the major league roster may make it hard to leave T.J.
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