Yankees take towering pitchers Ben Hess, Bryce Cunningham to start 2024 MLB Draft
NY Post
FORT WORTH, Texas — In the draft and perhaps nowhere else, the Yankees routinely are charged with doing a lot with a little. Their initial selection has not landed in the top half of the first round since 1993.
Their finds — like Aaron Judge at No. 32 in 2013 — are found after plenty of other clubs pass on that player.
The Yankees have to locate the gems that others overlook.
Their strategy Sunday appeared to be identifying what they hope is a market inefficiency: pitchers built like workhorses and with elite stuff, even if their command has not been harnessed.
First the Yankees lassoed pitcher Ben Hess from the University of Alabama with the No. 26-overall pick before taking another big righty, Bryce Cunningham out of Vanderbilt, in the second round of the draft at Cowtown Coliseum.
Both are strapping, and both will be projects.
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