Projecting the 2017 Scranton RailRiders Opening Day roster

It will be some time before we know the final configuration of the Yankees major league roster. While it was mostly set before heading into camp, a few players still have the ability to make it or break it. Some of these final decisions will ultimately affect the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders roster, but here is a guess as to how it will look on Opening Day.

Catcher

This is probably the easiest position to decide on. The Yankees don’t have many promising catching prospects in the system now that Gary Sanchez will be in the majors and Luis Torrens was taken in the Rule 5 Draft. Higashioka did an excellent job in 2016 to the point that the Yankees took notice and decided to put him on the…