Yankees’ Top Prospects: 1-5

First, I guess I should introduce myself.  As should be obvious, my name is Kyle, I’m currently stuck in Arizona until I finish college, and—as is appropriate for this site—I am a stat-geek.  SG and I had talked about me contributing some minor league stuff to the site, but it took a while for it to actually happen—and I’ve been procrastinating during my break between semesters.  I figured I’d start off with a completely unoriginal top 10 list, because I don’t think you are allowed to blog about prospects in the offseason without doing one.  I’m going to focus on stats a lot more than publications like Baseball America, Pinstripes Plus, etc., but that’s because they already do far better work than I could with scouting.  I do try to use a mix of both scouting and statistics when judging a prospect, and tend to agree with Theo Epstein’s view: “For players in the rookie leagues and the lower l...