Analysis: Yankees Pick 16th In This Year’s Amateur Draft

The Yankees, like all teams, have had mixed results in selecting players from the amateur draft pool over the years. In 1991, they selected Brien Taylor as a widely heralded number one pick. For two years, Taylor reigned as the number one prospect in all of the major league baseball, only to fall off the charts, never throwing a single pitch for the Yankees wearing the pinstripes. In this year’s draft, fifteen players will be selected before the Yankees make their choice. What will be the organizational process employed in making that selection?

The Yankee’s possession of the 16th pick doesn’t sound like much. And you might think that the first ten picks will yield the best players in the…