On Tuesday, the Yankees broke their own record. “We’ve signed a lot of international players per year, sometimes as high as 50,” Donny Rowland, the Yankees’ director of international scouting, said on a conference call with reporters on Tuesday — the first day of the new international amateur signing period. But in this case, every now and then, the right player comes along, this one was worth it. To a man, everyone on my staff agreed.”The Yankees’ previous amateur signing record was $3.2 million, for the Dominican shortstop Dermis Garcia in 2014. Garcia, now 21, is playing for Class A Tampa and is not ranked among the organization’s top 30 prospects according to MLB.com.

Source: International New York Times July 03, 2019 00:00 UTC