From Tyler Kepner:The Yankees get a do-over Tuesday, and not just because they will be back at Fenway Park, where the Red Sox swept them in April. The amateur draft starts at 6 p.m., and the Yankees will try to recover from the sting of last summer.Their top pick last June, pitcher Gerrit Cole, chose college without hearing an offer from the Yankees. They lost interest in their second-rounder, pitcher Scott Bittle, who failed his physical. If not for Luis Vizcaino, the draft might have been a total disaster.The free-agent loss of Vizcaino, a middle reliever, gave the Yankees a supplemental first-round pick, which they used on Jeremy Bleich, a left-hander from Stanford. General Manager Brian Cashman said that Bleich, who is pitching well for Class A Tampa, reminded him of Jimmy Key.If Bleich makes four All-Star teams the way Key did, he could save his depleted draft class. For now, though, it looks like a missed opportunity, and the Yankees have few early chances to correct it this t...
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