• ‘High-end’ Yankees pick Brendan Beck expected to be fast riser

    ‘High-end’ Yankees pick Brendan Beck expected to be fast riser

    The Yankees believe they could have another fast riser in their second-round pick from this year’s draft.
  • Clarke Schmidt could be part of Yankees’ plans in a short season

    Clarke Schmidt could be part of Yankees’ plans in a short season

    Part 2 in a series on the Yankees’ top prospects. Damon Oppenheimer knew Clarke Schmidt’s stuff while pitching for the University of South Carolina was good enough to take the right-hander with the 16th pick in the 2017 draft. There was something else Schmidt possessed that Oppenheimer understood would get him through the trying times …
  • The scouting challenge facing Yankees and other MLB teams

    The scouting challenge facing Yankees and other MLB teams

    Since 1988, Damon Oppenheimer has been scouting high school and college baseball players while married to the same routine of flying or driving to evaluate players and then repeating the process in the next town. This year the Yankees’ VP of domestic amateur scouting has another challenge in front of him: There are players eligible …