New York Yankees hurler Joba Chamberlain (Photo by Jared Wickerham/Getty Images)
The New York Yankees’ draft haul in 2006 featured a wealth of talent.
For a while, being a Yankees draft pick meant being an afterthought. Cruel, accurate, and hard to parse, when you saw all the excellent work the Red Sox were doing in maintaining a World Series-contending roster and a top-notch farm system (just want to thank Dave Dombrowski here for forgetting that was possible!).
But in 2006, just one year after the CJ Henry first-round disaster (OK, actually, he netted Bobby Abreu, so let’s call it a wash?