The New York Yankees have been known to hoard prospects in recent years, hoping to develop their next wave of stars while occasionally (more often than many would like) holding onto some well past their expiration date. At the same time, sometimes a mid-tier prospect comes out of nowhere to blossom into a star-level player, and that's exactly what the Yankees are seeing now with Ben Rice.
It wasn't supposed to be Rice who became the next generation of elite Yankee homegrown talent. That honor was supposed to fall on the shoulders of Anthony Volpe (and Austin Wells).