After going with a pair of hitters to start off their draft, the Yankees used their third and final pick on Beck Way, a 20-year-old right-handed pitcher from Northwest Florida. Way had arrived at the Florida junior college from a D-2 school in Pennsylvania and had committed to transfer to LSU, a commitment the Yankees will have to convince him to forego.
Baseball America labeled Way the top junior college prospect in the class, having popped up with a standout performance in the Cape Cod League last summer, one in which he struck out 18 batters in 13.