A few weeks ago, my twitter timeline started to fill up with highlights of prospects playing in games or training at their facilities around Florida and Arizona. All but two of the major league teams brought in their best prospects for several weeks of simulated games and in-person instructions. St. Louis will run theirs in January, leaving the Yankees as lone team to not host an instructional training session. Lets look at the Yankees decision to not bring their best young prospects in this fall.
When it was announced in mid-September that MLB was going to authorize teams to hold a instructional league, it looked like the Yankees would be right there with the rest of the teams in Florida.