Jake Sanford may not be your prototypical Yankees draft pick. He hasn’t played baseball for long, which means he could carry some risk, but he’s good enough for the greatest franchise in sports to take a chance on him. So what makes the selection of the 21-year-old Sanford so unique?
The Yankees may have found the next Brett Gardner in draft pick Jake Sanford. The Yankees drafted Both Gardner and Sanford were in the third round, and they both got off to late starts in their baseball careers.
Gardner was a walk-on at Charleston, and Sanford was a walk-on at McCook Community College in Nebraska after passing on a volleyball scholarship from Dalhouse University in Nova Scotia, Canada.