Generation next:
Kennedy will join Joba Chamberlain as the second Yankees player to make the
big club just one season removed from the First-Year Player Draft, and he
will join Phil Hughes as the second rookie in a rotation traditionally
dominated by veterans.
Yet there's precedent here, and you don't have to go back to the mid-1990s
to find it. Torre said that the Yankees began realizing just how much their
farm system could help when Robinson Cano and Chien-Ming Wang both came on as
rookies to significantly bolster the club in 2005. Since that year, the
Yankees have worked diligently not only to keep the prospects they drafted,
but to give those kids an extended shot in the big leagues.
"Wang was just ridiculous," Torre said, comparing his demeanor to that of
Hughes and Chamberlain -- and, he hopes, Kennedy. "He came up here and had
a calmness about him that sort of paid off. The combination of him and Cano
that year opened up our eyes."
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