New York Post | Joel Sherman: Building on news from earlier this week, Joel Sherman reports that the Yankees are “monitoring the elite shortstop group rather than participating in it,” speculating that the team is looking to see if the market for one of the top guys collapses in the combination of the deep free agent class and the likely-lockout-induced winter. But why might the Yankees employ such a strategy? Sherman sees two possible reasons.
The first — that the team does not want to block top shortstop prospects Anthony Volpe and Oswald Peraza — is utterly ridiculous, as prospects are fickle things.