The winter is prime prospect season, but the summer always makes for a good time to take stock of what’s going on down on the farm. Thus, many of the major prospect lists have received updates this month. ESPN’s Keith Law published his midseason Top 50 last week, with Justus Sheffield standing as the only Yankee included. Baseball Prospectus also just ran their own midseason Top 50, and again, Sheffield alone made the list.
Sheffield placed highly in Law’s ranking, coming in at number twelve, while BP was more modest, slotting the 22-year-old left-hander at number 40.