Good news: the New York Yankees selected Aaron Judge in the supplemental first round of the 2013 MLB Draft! Bad news: their other first-round picks.
How often do the Yankees have three selections at the top of the draft, anyway? That’s an opportunity you simply can’t botch, and luckily, they didn’t. Though the picks that surrounded Judge were ultimately busts, both benefitted the Yankees as high-profile trade pieces.
In that vein, this particular draft, in the middle of a dark and feckless summer with far too much Vernon Wells involved, was a beacon of the next era of Yankee baseball in the best way.