Yankees Top 60 Prospects by James Vlietstra February 11, 2022 *** In the past I have been hesitant to put out a Yankees top prospect list for a a couple of reasons. First and foremost I am not a professional talent evaluator. I also have not seen many of these players playing live in front of me. I do read a lot of analysis, but that doesn’t mean that I am qualified to voice my opinion. However, one thing that I am very good at is numbers. So I have put together a point scale

I thought that it might be fun to do a back of the envelope analysis of the projected win total for the 2020 Yankees. I am using the wins above replacement (WAR) player methodology. For those of you who want to avoid wading through the statistics, my analysis shows that the Yankees will win 113 games in 2020, but it is better to read on and see how I came up with that number. A Brief Summary of WAR As previously noted, WAR stands for Wins Above Replacement (player). First,