
‘High-end’ Yankees pick Brendan Beck expected to be fast riser
NY Post
The most recent Yankees draft pick to make it to the big leagues is 2017 first-rounder Clarke Schmidt, the right-hander who debuted three years later.
The Yankees believe they could have another fast riser in their second-round pick from this year’s draft, Stanford right-hander Brendan Beck, according to VP of domestic amateur scouting Damon Oppenheimer. “We think he could be really close,” Oppenheimer said Wednesday, a day after the MLB draft wrapped up. “There’s not a lot that has to happen with him. There’s not a lot of development that has to go in. He just probably needs to build up innings. … We think we’re getting a high-end starter.”
SAN DIEGO — As you may have seen elsewhere in this newspaper (and also if you haven’t deleted me yet from your social media), I have a book coming out Tuesday called “The Bosses of The Bronx.” Much of it details the 37 years’ worth of antics, winning, losing, winning again and overall mania of George Steinbrenner’s time with the Yankees.

Cade Cunningham, almost inarguably the best player in the East this season, is likely out for the remainder of the regular season. That’s the word out of Detroit following the depressing news that Cunningham punctured a lung when he took a knee to his side Tuesday from Washington’s Tre Johnson while chasing a loose ball.

Wednesday was another positive day at Yankees camp. For the first time since March 6, 2025 — an outing in which he knew “something wasn’t right,” which began a weeks-long saga that ended on the operating table for Tommy John surgery — Gerrit Cole was back on a mound and facing hitters in game action.










