Donny Rowland is out after a 15-year run because the Yankees’ director of worldwide scouting, as first reported Wednesday by The Athletic.
Yankees basic supervisor Brian Cashman confirmed the transfer on a Zoom name with reporters attending the GM Conferences in Las Vegas.
Cashman stated the membership is gathering names and can schedule interviews to find out a successor for Rowland, who oversaw the signings of gamers like Jasson Domínguez, Luis Severino and Miguel Andújar.
“His contract had expired, so similar to the whole lot else, you’ve acquired to make some very tough choices,” Cashman stated. “I’ve been concerned with Donny Rowland for a very long time. However fork within the highway, [his] contract had expired and so I made the tough determination to search for a special lead voice in that chair.”
Rowland, 62, spent 23 seasons with the group. The Yankees’ monitor report of worldwide signings has been checkered by high-profile misses — like shortstop Alexander Vargas, who was signed for $2.5 million in 2019 and was launched this previous August.
Nonetheless, there are potential success tales nonetheless to return: right-hander Carlos Lagrange, for instance, is presently rated because the group’s No. 2 prospect by MLB Pipeline. Lagrange was signed for simply $10,000 out of the Dominican Republic in February 2022.
Shortstop Roderick Arias (No. 20), shortstop Mani Cedeno (No. 21), outfielder Brando Mayea (No. 27), outfielder Francisco Vilorio (No. 28) and shortstop Stiven Marinez (No. 29) are additionally listed among the many Yankees’ present Prime 30 prospects by MLB Pipeline.
