The Yankees added a very tuned international perspective to their agricultural system, while Bed Badler of Baseball America reports that the team signed the 16 -year -old Dominican judgment Manny Cedeño to a Friday contract which includes a signature bonus of $ 2.5 million.
Cedeño, listed at 5 feet 11 inches and 181 pounds, is the international perspective n ° 11 on the list of the 50 best MLB pipelines and the second largest classified player. The teenage right -hander was also noted uniformly on the 20-80 scale of MLB Pipeline – it is marked as a 50 in total with typing and food tools placed at 55 years. According to the scouting report, Cedeño is considered a player thoroughly who “” has all the raw tools that clubs are looking for in a stop stop. “”
Baseball America also has an evaluation of Cedeño, with Badler saying that the young person displays the speed of bats and the coordination of a look that helps him put the ball at a high pace. Badler says that Cedeño has “an online driving approach and that the ball is carrying its bat for a player with its average frame”.
Cedeño joins an international signing class of Yankees which would include field players Ruben Castillo,, Isaias Castillo,, Edison Charlesand inner field player Carlos Bello. Cedeño is the best classified perspective in the Dominican city of San Pedro de Macoris, known as a hotspot for the development of arrest talents. Signed New York Robinson Cano From there in 2001, when he was only 18 years old.