New York Yankees minor league players
Below is a partial list of Minor League Baseball players in the New York Yankees system.
Players
Albert Abreu
Albert Emmanuel Abreu Dias is a Dominican professional baseball pitcher in the New York Yankees organization.Abreu signed with the Houston Astros as an international free agent in August 2013. He made his professional debut in 2014 with the Dominican Summer League Astros where he went 3–2 with a 2.78 ERA in 14 games. He pitched 2015 with the Greeneville Astros, going 2–3 with a 2.51 ERA and started 2016 with the Quad Cities River Bandits, where he posted a 2–8 record and 3.50 ERA before being promoted to the Lancaster JetHawks where he finished the season, going 1–0 with a 5.40 ERA in three games. On November 17, 2016, Abreu was traded along with Jorge Guzmán to the New York Yankees for Brian McCann. He spent 2017 with the Charleston RiverDogs, Tampa Yankees and GCL Yankees, posting a combined 2–3 record and 3.38 ERA in 53.1 innings pitched between the three clubs. The Yankees added him to their 40-man roster after the 2017 season.
Jasson Domínguez
Jasson Domínguez is a Dominican professional baseball outfielder in the New York Yankees organization.Domínguez was ranked as the top international prospect in the 2019 class. He signed with the New York Yankees for a record $5 million on July 2, 2019.
Luis Gil
Luis Ángel Gil is a Dominican professional baseball pitcher in the New York Yankees organization.Gil signed with the Minnesota Twins as an international free agent in February 2015. He made his professional debut that season with the Dominican Summer League Twins, going 1–2 with a 4.63 ERA over innings. After not pitching in 2016, he spent 2017 with the Dominican Summer League Twins, pitching to a 0–2 record with a 2.59 ERA over 14 starts.
On March 16, 2018 the Twins traded Gil to the New York Yankees for Jake Cave. He spent the season with the Pulaski Yankees and Staten Island Yankees, compiling a combined 2–3 record and 1.96 ERA over 12 starts, striking out 68 over 46 innings. He started 2019 with the Charleston RiverDogs, and was promoted to the Tampa Tarpons in July. Over twenty starts between the two teams, Gil went 5–5 with a 2.72 ERA, compiling 123 strikeouts over 96 innings.
Kyle Holder
Kyle Patrick Holder is an American professional baseball shortstop. He played college baseball at University of San Diego. He was drafted 30th overall by the New York Yankees in the first round of the 2015 MLB draft.Holder graduated from University City High School in 2012. After graduating, he enrolled at Grossmont College where he played for their baseball team, posting a.405 batting average with sixty hits and 21 RBIs. After his freshman year at Grossmont, he then enrolled at the University of San Diego where he played baseball for the Toreros. After the 2014 season, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Cotuit Kettleers of the Cape Cod Baseball League. As a junior, he led USD in batting average and RBIs. He was named WCC player of the year. After his junior year, he was drafted by the New York Yankees in the first round of the 2015 MLB draft. Holder signed with the Yankees for $1.8 million signing bonus.
After signing, the Yankees assigned Holder to the Staten Island Yankees, where he spent the whole season. Holder played for the Charleston RiverDogs in 2016, where he batted.290 with one home run and 18 RBIS, and the Tampa Yankees in 2017 where he batted.271 with four home runs and 44 RBIs.
In 2017, Holder was named as the Best Defensive Shortstop in the minor leagues. Holder was invited to the Arizona Fall League in 2017 and hit.333 over 45 at bats. He was then a non-roster invitee for the New York Yankees spring training in 2018 and started the year with Trenton Thunder. He also spent time during the season with the Charleston RiverDogs and the Trenton Thunder. Over 48 games between the two teams, he hit.257 with three home runs.
The Yankees invited Holder to spring training as a non-roster player in 2019. He spent the year with Trenton, slashing.265/.336/.405 with nine home runs and forty RBIs over 112 games.
Trevor Lane
Trevor Lane is an American professional baseball pitcher for the New York Yankees organization.Lane attended Mount Si High School in Snoqualmie, Washington. He played for the school's baseball team as a pitcher and first baseman, and was named the Gatorade Washington Player of the Year in 2012. He enrolled at Lower Columbia College, where he played college baseball for two years, and transferred to the University of Illinois at Chicago to play for the UIC Flames. Lane was named the top relief pitcher in the Horizon League in 2017.
The New York Yankees selected Lane in the 10th round of the 2016 MLB draft. He signed and pitched for the Rookie-level GCL Yankees before being promoted to the Staten Island Yankees of the Class A-Short Season New York-Penn League. In 15.1 relief innings pitched between both teams, he went 1–0 with a 0.59 ERA. In 2017, he began the year with the Charleston RiverDogs of the Class A South Atlantic League. He also spent time with the Tampa Tarpons of the Class A-Advanced Florida State League during the year. In 37 relief appearances, he went 6–4 with a 1.52 ERA.
The Yankees invited Lane to spring training in 2018 as a non-roster player. He began the year with Tampa and was promoted in May to the Trenton Thunder of the Class AA Eastern League. Over 68 relief innings pitched between the two teams, Lane compilied a 2–4 record with a 3.97 ERA, striking out 82 batters. He returned to Trenton to begin the 2019 season, and he also spent time during the year with the Tarpons and the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders of the Class AAA International League. Over relief innings between the three clubs, Lane went 6–2 with a 2.05 ERA, striking out 74 batters.
Luis Medina
Luis Ángel Medina is a Dominican professional baseball pitcher in the New York Yankees organization.Medina signed with the New York Yankees as an international free agent in July 2015. He made his professional debut in 2016 with the Dominican Summer League Yankees. In 2017 he pitched for the Dominican Summer League Yankees and Pulaski Yankees. In 2018, he pitched for Pulaski.
Medina started 2019 with the Charleston RiverDogs and was promoted to the Tampa Yankees during the season.
Nick Nelson
Nicholas B. Nelson is an American professional baseball pitcher for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball.Nelson attended Rutherford High School in Panama City, Florida. He drafted by the San Francisco Giants in the 31st round of the 2014 Major League Baseball draft, but did not sign and played college baseball at Gulf Coast Community College. He was then drafted by the New York Yankees in the fourth round of the 2016 MLB draft and signed.
Nelson made his professional debut with the Pulaski Yankees, going 0–3 with a 3.38 ERA over innings. He pitched 2017 with the Charleston RiverDogs, compiling a 3-12 record with a 4.56 ERA over 22 starts, and 2018 with Charleston, Tampa Tarpons and Trenton Thunder, pitching to a combined 8–6 record with a 3.55 ERA over 26 games between the three teams. He pitched 2019 with Tampa, Trenton, and the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders, going 8–3 with a 2.81 ERA over 18 games, striking out 114 over innings.
Oswald Peraza
Oswald Dair Peraza is a Venezuelan professional baseball shortstop in the New York Yankees organization.Peraza signed with the New York Yankees as an international free agent in July 2016. He made his professional debut in 2017 with the Dominican Summer League Yankees. He was later promoted to the Gulf Coast Yankees that season.
Peraza played 2018 with the Pulaski Yankees and 2019 with the Staten Island Yankees and Charleston RiverDogs.
James Reeves
James Earle Reeves is an American professional baseball pitcher for the New York Yankees organization.Reeves attended Ashley Ridge High School in Summerville, South Carolina, and The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, where he played college baseball for The Citadel Bulldogs. In 2015, he was named the Southern Conference Pitcher of the Year.
The New York Yankees selected Reeves in the tenth round, with the 303rd overall selection, of the 2015 MLB draft. He made his professional debut in 2015 with the Staten Island Yankees where he pitched to a 1–1 record and 3.08 ERA in 13 games, and began the 2016 season with the Charleston RiverDogs. He received promotions to the Tampa Yankees and the Trenton Thunder during the season. In 32 total games between the three teams, he posted a 6–2 record with a 2.22 ERA and a 0.91 WHIP. In 2017, he played for both Tampa and Trenton, posting a combined 1.96 ERA with 51 strikeouts in 46 innings pitched between both teams.
Matt Sauer
Matthew David Sauer is an American professional baseball pitcher in the New York Yankees organization.Sauer attended Righetti High School in Santa Maria, California. As a senior, he went 9–1 with a 0.98 earned run average and 142 strikeouts. He committed to the University of Arizona to play college baseball. Sauer was drafted by the New York Yankees in the second round of the 2017 MLB draft.
Sauer officially signed with the Yankees on June 24. and was assigned to the GCL Yankees, where he spent the whole 2017 season, posting an 0–2 record with a 5.40 ERA in 11.2 innings pitched. In 2018, he pitched with the Staten Island Yankees where he went 3–6 with a 3.90 ERA in 13 starts.
Sauer spent 2019 with the Charleston RiverDogs, but pitched only innings due to injury.
Josh Stowers
Joshua Stowers is an American professional baseball outfielder for the New York Yankees organization.Stowers attended Mount Carmel High School in Chicago, Illinois. He attended the University of Louisville and played college baseball for the Louisville Cardinals. In 2017, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Chatham Anglers of the Cape Cod Baseball League. The Seattle Mariners selected him in the second round of the 2018 MLB draft. He signed with the Mariners and was assigned to the Everett AquaSox, batting.260 with five home runs, 28 RBIs, and twenty stolen bases over 58 games.
On January 21, 2019, the Mariners traded Stowers to the New York Yankees for Shed Long. He spent 2019 with the Charleston RiverDogs, slashing.273/.386/.400 with seven home runs, forty RBIs, and 35 stolen bases over 105 games.
Brandon Wagner
Brandon Michael Wagner is an American professional baseball infielder for the New York Yankees organization.Wagner attended Immaculata High School in Somerville, New Jersey. The Philadelphia Phillies selected him in the 39th round, with the 1,171st overall selection, of the 2013 MLB draft. He did not sign with Philadelphia, enrolling at Howard College to play college baseball for the Howard Hawks. The New York Yankees selected Wagner in the sixth round, with the 183rd overall selection, of the 2015 MLB draft. In 2018, he began the season with the Tampa Tarpons of the Class A-Advanced Florida State League and was promoted to the Trenton Thunder of the Class AA Eastern League in July.
Garrett Whitlock
Garrett Getts Whitlock is an American professional baseball pitcher in the New York Yankees organization.Whitlock attended Providence Christian Academy in Lilburn, Georgia. As a junior, he posted a 1.95 ERA along with batting.369. He was not drafted out of high school in the 2015 Major League Baseball draft and enrolled at the University of Alabama at Birmingham where he played college baseball for the UAB Blazers. In 2016, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Chatham Anglers of the Cape Cod Baseball League. As a sophomore at UAB, he was 3–6 with a 4.07 ERA. After his sophomore year, he was drafted by the New York Yankees in the 18th round of the 2017 Major League Baseball draft, and he signed.
After signing with the Yankees, Whitlock made his professional debut with the Gulf Coast League Yankees where he posted a 1.04 ERA in three starts. He was promoted to the Pulaski Yankees in August, and ended the season there, pitching to a 7.94 ERA in 5.2 innings. He began 2018 with the Charleston RiverDogs and was promoted to the Tampa Yankees and Trenton Thunder during the season. In 23 games between the three clubs, Whitlock went 8–5 with a 1.86 ERA and a 1.11 WHIP. He returned to Trenton for the 2019 season, pitching to a 3–3 record with a 3.07 ERA over 14 starts, striking out 57 over innings.
Miguel Yajure
Yajure signed with the New York Yankees as an international free agent in March 2015. He made his professional debut that season with the Dominican Summer League Yankees. He played 2016 with the Gulf Coast Yankees and missed 2017 after undergoing Tommy John Surgery.
Yajure returned from the injury in 2018 and pitched with the Charleston RiverDogs. He started 2019 with the Tampa Tarpons before being promoted to the Trenton Thunder.