Today marks the deadline for teams to submit to Major League Baseball their initial spring training player pools, which can comprise up to 60 players. Players are not eligible to participate in either a spring training or regular season game until they are included in the pool. Teams are free to change the makeup of the pools as they see fit. However, players removed from a team’s 60-man (for reasons unrelated to injury, suspension, etc.) must be exposed to other organizations via trade or waivers.
Not all players within a team’s pool are ticketed for MLB playing time, of course. Most teams will include well-regarded but still far-off prospects as a means of getting them training reps with no intention of running them onto a major league diamond this season. A comprehensive review of 2020’s unique set of rules can be found here.
The Yankees’ initial player pool consists of the following players.
Right-handed pitchers
- Albert Abreu
- Domingo Acevedo
- Daniel Alvarez
- Luis Cessa
- Gerrit Cole
- Deivi Garcia
- Luis Gil
- Chad Green
- David Hale
- Ben Heller
- Jonathan Holder
- Tommy Kahnle
- Michael King
- Brooks Kriske
- Jonathan Loaisiga
- Luis Medina
- Nick Nelson
- Dan Otero
- Adam Ottavino
- Adonis Rosa
- Clarke Schmidt
- Masahiro Tanaka
- Nick Tropeano
- Alexander Vizcaino
- Miguel Yajure
- Tony Zych
Left-handed pitchers
Catchers
Infielders
- Miguel Andujar
- Matt Duffy
- Thairo Estrada
- Mike Ford
- Kyle Holder
- DJ LeMahieu
- Gleyber Torres
- Gio Urshela
- Luke Voit
- Tyler Wade
Outfielders
when was Duffy a Yankee?
Just picked up today
gotcha, thanks
apparently the Yankees just signed him to a minor league deal today and caught a ton of people by surprise.
When did the Yankees get Matt Duffy?
Just picked up today
That’s a W for them. Can never have too much depth, especially during uncertain times.
They just sign Matt Duffy before they announce this
Wondered if they signed Duffy today
Matt Duffy will hit .330 with 25 homers… it’s that special ARod formula they made.
Wait.
When did the Yankees sign Matt Duffy?
I have no memory of that.
Let the Matt Duffy / Clint Frazier trade proposals start rolling in. Maybe they can get Arenado for that package…
Hey, that’d be swell!
Going to guess that you are not a Yankee fan. Spelling & grammar appears to be ok. So probably not a red sox fan either.
Rays?
I’m actually a Red Sox fan, but one of the few who respects the Yankees tradition of winning and even more so, the current talent on their roster.
I just can’t help but laugh how much the die hard Yankees fans overrate their prospects and in particular, Clint Frazier. The guy really hasn’t done anything in the minors or the majors that shows he’d be more than a 1.5 or 2.0 WAR player in a full MLB season, but I see a ton of crazy trade proposals from them with Frazier as the headliner for players like Kris Bryant, Nolan Arenado, etc. Mike Tauchman beat out Frazier for playing time last season, I think that about says it all.
Yeah.
I sorta figured (but not about the respect – uh? &, damnit NE has been on a major sports success/titles run. Which… well, doesn’t make my day, or whatever). I was just being a bit of a dee nozzle.
I’m not sure that is specifically a Yankee fan trait. The trade proposals not the dee nozzlery.
😉
I live in Minneapolis these days but get all over the Midwest for some shooting. There’s a common homer trade template (of which I’ve certainly taken part in!).
i.e.
We trade: crappy players
We get: good players.
Uh?
On Frazier specifically his bat is for sure above average. I really feel his defensive…uh – issues were the result of his spring training collision a few years ago.
The tools are there. He’s decent speed (was a CF prospect in Cleveland), has a strong enough arm & works hard.
I live in Minneapolis these days. Saw him play out here. Kid was studying notes between pitches out in the field. That impressed me.
I see him as more like ~ 2.5-3.0 WAR player but our valuations don’t differ a whole lot.
Uh?
Thanks for the reply.
New guy here.
Or maybe they can trade for future hall of famer Blake Swihart
The Evil Empire will be one really tuff team to beat anywhere.
I count 58. where are the last 2?
Another team built with Cashman’s brilliance. OMG just look at their lefty pitchers, an amazing group.
Yessir.
Lots of talent & really nice depth in the entire group of players. I know some Yankee fans are “concerned” about the lack of LH bats.
I am not.
I’d rather have good hitters than make decisions based on which side of the plate guys hit from.
I’ve been hoping for another solid middle reliever. Interested to see how we fill the last couple spots.
Guess I’d’ve been better served reading the rest of the comments.
Ah, well… what’s done is done.
If I understand this correctly the Yankees can add two more players as their at 58 in their player pool.
Fangraphs ran down some players on the market yet. Couple relief pitchers I can see being of interest.
Damn.
Actual baseball thoughts.
Gonna try and decoy in some rock doves this evening. Can’t wait til I can stream games in the blind.
where is Domingo German?
I was hoping to see Dominguez, siegler, Beaux and this years first as well on the list.
We need to win a championship pronto. Judge, Sanchez, Gleyber are gonna get expensive soon.
Gleyber’s price will reduce once his defensive limitations become more obvious at SS.
Torres isn’t going to stay at shortstop. the Yanks will pick one up from Cleveland
The bat alone will make him very expensive.
and, of course, the Yankees can’t afford expensive players, they might even need to keep the payroll under $400M to avoid cutting into profits
Since when did we become the Mets and can’t pay our own players?
Right after they signed Gerrit Cole. Next step: get under the CBT threshold & reset.
I don’t really think that is the plan.
I think they’ll run a “high” payroll next season, as well.
I think the Yanks have an inkling that the next CBA will have much more favorable CBT thresholds. The last few off-seasons the Yankees have been obsessed with value (Cole being the outlier).
I do see that continuing. I also see us continuing to write Big Checks.
Uh?
Really overrated. Ceiling not a champion, floor like 85 wins. Everyone pencilling them in as champs reads too much Yankee-owned media.
I’m not sure if this sarcasm but since every comment you’ve ever made has been anti-yankee… the season is only going to be 60 games so about those 85 wins…
Your dislike of the Yankees is clearly interfering with your ability to adequately judge talent. There’s no doubt to anyone with even a little knowledge of baseball that this group has the capability of winning it all. Obviously injuries and down years can quickly change things and there no guarantees. I don’t know how the season will turn out but “really overrated” and “not a champion” is pushing it. Honestly, even if you’re right and they are overrated anything can happen in a 60 game season so of all the years to say not a champion I wouldn’t pick this one. Literally anyone can get hot and won it all with such a small sample size.
That 85 wins must include the playoff and WS victories. Even so, 74 victories during the regular season seems a lot.
Interesting to see Medina make it. He must have continued the late season improvement with his control.
It must have been the funky cold Medina that did it for him.
Underrated comment of the year
Depth, depth and more depth. Most of their back ups would start on some teams which is why they’re tough to beat.
i dunno about that. they arent the Dodgers.
Not many premier players would tolerate Dodgers playing time, given the chance. Yankees players usually seek to re-sign or sign extensions when they meet market value if recent history is any reason to judge… Puig is the obvious difference between the Yankee Way and the dodger way.
There’s getting lucky, and then there’s appropriately valuing all aspects of current assets, Puig reminds me a lot of Clint Frazier… but the Yankees are FIRM in not promoting him, tools be damned, and I approve.
Team cohesiveness means A LOT, IMO.
I’m gonna guess darkside830 is a dodgers fan?
Luis Cessa making the cut gives me hope for the Sox in a 60 game sprint
Lol, as a Yankee fan that has a deep understanding of the Sox (due to most of my extended family,) I agree with you, but it would take a lot more than Cessa not being replacement-level to help Boston in 2020.
Looking forward to the cheating scandal the Yankees were involved with. They didn’t win anything by cheating, but we all know they did. Girardi even mentioned it on live TV. MLB will slap them on the wrist, and Yankees will keep spending money and win nothing.
I mean… You must be a Houston fan still striving for relevance…
You’re talking 2017, in which the team was doing basically the same thing every other team was doing, (NOT using the replay room in real time – trash-can banging, etc, just using it to decode signs prior to the game, then signaling while on 2nd if they were the same as they were decoded ahead of time,) and when the league said “NO” and sent memos to everyone, they stopped.
If there was any problem with what the Yankees were doing at that time, it came from ambiguousness of sign-stealing rules coming out of MLB. There is no evidence against the Yankees that anyone seems to be aware of after the “Red Sox Apple Watch Memo,” during that season or any season afterward.