NEW YORK – Spencer Jones and Chase Hampton, respectively the Yankees’ high place participant and pitching prospects, had been among the many gamers invited to Main League Spring Coaching on Tuesday.
Jones and Hampton headlined a bunch of 26 non-roster gamers invited to massive league camp, growing the variety of gamers scheduled to report back to 66. Yankees pitchers and catchers are set to report back to Tampa, Fla., on Feb. 14, with the workforce’s first full-squad exercise slated for Feb. 20.
Jones, 22, was the Yankees’ first-round decide within the 2022 MLB Draft (twenty fifth total). He’s ranked by MLB Pipeline because the Bombers’ high prospect and the No. 84 prospect in all of baseball, having represented the membership eventually 12 months’s SiriusXM All-Star Futures Sport in Seattle.
The left-handed hitting outfielder hit a mixed .267/.336/.444 with 29 doubles, 16 homers and 66 RBIs in 117 video games between Excessive-A Hudson Valley and Double-A Somerset final season. Jones tasks to open the ’24 marketing campaign at Double-A, the place he performed 17 video games in 2023.
Hampton, 22, was chosen within the sixth spherical of the 2022 MLB Draft. MLB Pipeline charges Hampton because the Yankees’ No. 4 prospect and the No. 92 prospect in baseball.
In his first professional season, the right-hander was a mixed 4-3 with a 3.63 ERA in 20 begins for Excessive-A Hudson Valley and Double-A Somerset, allowing 85 hits and 37 walks over 106 2/3 innings, with 145 strikeouts. Hampton ranked sixth amongst Yanks farmhands in strikeouts and ninth in innings.
Different gamers ranked by MLB Pipeline inside the Yankees’ high 30 to obtain non-roster invites embody catcher/first baseman Ben Rice (No. 21) and right-hander Will Warren (No. 8).
Extra invitees from inside the group included catcher Josh Breaux, infielder Jeter Downs, infielder Caleb Durbin, outfielder Oscar González, outfielder Brandon Lockridge, and infielder T.J. Rumfield.
The Bombers additionally introduced the signings of outfielder Greg Allen, left-hander Anthony Misiewicz and left-hander Tanner Tully, all of whom performed with the group throughout the ’23 season.
Different Minor League offers included pacts with right-hander Nick Burdi, right-hander Yerry de los Santos, catcher J.C. Escarra, right-hander Joey Gerber, outfielder Luis González, left-hander Oddanier Mosqueda, infielder/outfielder Jose Rojas, right-hander Dennis Santana, infielder Kevin Smith, catcher Luis Torrens, right-hander Duane Underwood Jr., infielder Josh VanMeter and right-hander Artwork Warren.
