Rule V Draft Underway

The major league phase of the Rule V draft is well under way and the Yankees have already lost 3 prospects, infielder Reegie Corona and pitchers Zack Kroenke and Jason Jones.

Major League Phase

Pick	Player	Position	Drafted By	Drafted From	2008 Club
1	Terrell Young	RHP	Washington	Cincinnati	Sarasota
2	Reegie Corona	INF	Seattle	New York (AL)	Trenton
3	Everth Cabrera	SS	San Diego	Colorado	Asheville
4	Donald Veal	LHP	Pittsburgh	Chicago (NL)	Tennessee
5	Lou Palmisano	C	Baltimore	Milwaukee	Brevard County
6	Luis Perdomo	RHP	San Francisco	St. Louis	Springfield
7	David Patton	RHP	Cincinnati	Colorado	Modesto
8	Kyle Bloom	LHP	Detroit	Pittsburgh	Altoona
9	Jose Lugo	LHP	Kansas City	Minnesota	Ft. Myers
10	Benjamin Copeland	CF	Oakland	San Francisco	Fresno
11	James Skelton	C	Arizona	Detroit	Erie
12	Zachary Kroenke	LHP	Florida	New York (AL)	Scranton/Wilkes-Barre
13	Gilbert De La Vara	LHP	Houston	Kansas City	Northwest Arkansas
14	Jason Jones	RHP	Minnesota	New York (AL)	Scranton/Wilkes-Barre
15	Darren O'Day	RHP	New York (NL)	Los Angeles (AL)	Salt Lake
16	Eddie Morlan	RHP	Milwaukee	Tampa Bay	Montgomery
17	Robert Mosebach	RHP	Philadelphia	Los Angeles (AL)	Arkansas
18	Miguel Gonzalez	RHP	Boston	Los Angeles (AL)
19	Derek Rodriguez	RHP	Tampa Bay	Chicago (AL)	Charlotte

20	Ivan Nova	RHP	San Diego	New York (AL)	Tampa
21	Rocky Cherry	RHP	New York (NL)	Baltimore	Norfolk

Triple-A Phase

Pick	Player	Position	Drafted By	Drafted From	2008 Club
1	Ricardo Nanita	OF	Syracuse (WAS)	Chicago (AL)	Birmingham
2	Ryan Patrick	RHP	Tacoma (SEA)	Milwaukee	Huntsville
3	Andres Santos	LHP	Indianapolis (PIT)	New York (AL)	DSL Yankees
4	Robert Valido	SS	Norfolk (BAL)	Chicago (AL)	Charlotte
5	Matt Yourkin	LHP	Fresno (SF)	Florida	Carolina
6	Francisco Lizaragga	SS	Louisville (CIN)	Los Angeles (NL)	Los Vegas
7	Luis Ortega	RHP	Omaha (KC)	Washington	DSL Nationals
8	Yusuf Carter	OF	Sacramento (OAK)	Chicago (NL)	Daytona
9	Elio Sarmiento	C	Oklahoma City (TEX)	San Francisco	San Jose
10	Anthony Hatch	INF	Albuquerque (LAD)	Toronto	New Hamp.
11	Ryan Klosterman	SS	New Orleans (FLA)	Toronto	New Hamp.
12	Russ Haltiwanger	RHP	Memphis (STL)	Kansas City	NW Arkansas
13	Cody Haerther	OF	Las Vegas (TOR)	St. Louis	Memphis
14	Andrew Locke	RF	Round Rock (HOU)	Los Angeles (LA)	Inland Empire
15	Henry Arias	RHP	Rochester (MIN)	Cincinnati	Dayton
16	Carl Loadenthal	OF	Buffalo (NYM)	Atlanta	Richmond
17	Mark Holliman	RHP	Nashville (MIL)	Chicago (NL)	Tennessee
18	Kyle Haines	2B	Lehigh Valley (PHI)	San Francisco	Connecticut
19	Jason Rice	RHP	Pawtucket (BOS)	Chicago (AL)	Kannapolis
20	Rafael Quintero	INF	Indianapolis (PIT)	Cleveland	DSL Indians
21	Josh Perrault	RHP	Norfolk (BAL)	Washington	Harrisburg
22	Richard Suomi	C	Omaha (KC)	Philadelphia	Lehigh Valley
23	Josue Selenes	RHP	Sacramento (OAK)	New York (AL)	Staten Island
24	Guilder Rodriguez	SS	Oklahoma (TEX)	Milwaukee	Huntsville
25	Brett Harker	RHP	Albuquerque (FLA)	Philadelphia	Reading
26	David Shinskie	RHP	Syracuse (TOR)	Minnesota	New Britain
27	John Madden	RHP	New Orleans (NYM)	San Diego	Portland
28	Jonathan Ash	2B	Nashville (MIL)	Houston	Round Rock
29	Javis Diaz	OF	Lehigh Valley (PHI)	San Diego	Lake Elsinore
30	Miguel Marquez	RHP	Pawtucket (BOS)	Seattle	DNP
31	Gerardo Esparza	RHP	Indianapolis (PIT)	Seattle	VSL Mariners
32	Carlos Arias	RHP	Omaha (KC)	Cleveland	Mah. Valley
33	Ronald Hill	RHP	Albuquerque (FLA)	Philadelphia	Reading
34	Shane Justis	SS	Nashville (MIL)	Los Angeles (NL)	Jacksonville
35	Juan Sanchez	SS	Nashville (MIL)	Milwaukee	GCL Twins

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Minor League Recap - 6/9

Heavy rains in the Tri-state and surrounding area halted the Scranton Yankees-Syracuse Chiefs game in the 8th inning with the scored tied 2-2. It will be resumed at 6 pm this evening prior to the regularly scheduled game.

Alan Horne returned from a strained bicep to make the start for Scranton. Chad Jennings reports that Horne through 82 pitches, 44 of them for strikes, and worked in and out of trouble in his 4 inning stint.

No rain in Trenton, but there was plenty of 9th inning thunder against the Reading Phillies. The Phillies tied the game, 2-2, in the top of the 9th on a Jeremy Slayden home run off of Bo Hall. But in the bottom of the 9th, Reegie Corona doubled home pinch-runner Carlos Mendoza with the game winning run. Eric Hacker made his best start since his promotion to Double-A, allowing 1 run in 6.1 innings pitched, while striking out 7.

June 8, 2008
	Final 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Reading 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 6 0 Trenton 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 3 10 0 Recap | Box | W: B. Hall (2-2, 2.21); L: J. Kershner (2-2, 3.90) HR: REA: J. Slayden (6), J. Donald (5).

The Tampa Yankees rallied from an 8-5 deficit to beat the Palm Beach Cardinals 9-8 and complete a 3-game sweep. The Yankees had a runner on 2nd Base with 2 outs when the bats came to life. Mitch Hilligoss reached on an infield single and a Cardinals error allowed Kevin Smith, who had 3 RBI in the game, to score to cut the lead to 8-6. Andres Perez followed with a single, and he and Hilligoss scored on James Cooper's triple to right to tie the game. Jose Gil then came through with the game winner on a lined single to right. Josh Schmidt came on in the 9th to retire the Cardinals in order to preserve Steve Arzt's first win.

June 8, 2008
	Final 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Palm Beach 0 3 0 0 4 0 1 0 0 8 9 2 Tampa 0 2 0 0 0 3 0 4 X 9 11 0 Recap | Box | W: S. Artz (1-2, 2.87); L: F. Samuel (3-3, 2.82); SV: J. Schmidt (4) HR: PBC: A. Brown (4). TAM: K. Smith (2).

The Charleston RiverDogs lost the finale of their series with the Savannah Sand Gnats, 6-4. Austin Krum's 3rd home run helped rallied the Dogs from a 5-1 deficit, but they fell short of a comeback.

June 8, 2008
	Final 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Charleston 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 4 6 0 Savannah 3 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 X 6 10 2 Recap | Box | W: S. Moviel (5-7, 5.52); L: N. Castillo (6-3, 3.33) HR: CHA: A. Krum (3).

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