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"Whoever was running the show down there must’ve been doing some pretty fucked up s%*# for this to all blow up and for them to all get fired. Wonder if they were skimming money off the top. Plus, most of these kids have all sucked anyway."

Compared to Jim Bowden/Dave Wilder situation with skimming bonuses.

 

Why the Yankees couldn’t afford the international scouting status quo

Jan 30, 2026 · The reality is the vast majority of international signings will not pan out. It is also reality that the Yankees have had their fair share of big misses...
 
 
 
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Yankees' new Director of International Scouting only makes their failure more baffling

What — and we cannot stress this enough — the f***.
ByAdam Weinrib|
 
 

 

 

 

"This did not make sense at all. Were the Yankees really so aghast at Rowland's scouting — which many publications are aligned on! — that they'd rather not participate in the process instead of dole out ~$4 million pre-agreements? Was there something sketchy going on behind the scenes, where MLB demanded they divest to prevent a large-scale investigation/suspension? These prospects — and the agents who represent them — couldn't really have loved Rowland this much, could they?!

Garza has spent essentially his entire career with the Yankees. He's as internal as internal gets.

 

If MLB was about to drop a hammer on Rowland and the Yankees, this wouldn't have been the move. If the Yankees wanted to make a change to their evaluation process, this definitely wouldn't have been the move; Garza was the team's director of Latin American operations from 2017-2019.

As it stands, the Yankees spent two months hemorrhaging talent while seeking a changing of the guard, than changed that guard by promoting someone they already had in their braintrust to a different position of power ... all in an effort to salvage a cascading pile of disintegrating relationships?

Maybe we were being too generous in assuming that Rowland had to have triggered some sort of massive scandal for this all to make sense. Maybe the Yankees really are that incompetent, and had no idea the damage they'd cause by making a change. As it stands, they've lost two years of talent from one of the very few prospect pools they can access without getting lucky at the back of the first round/nailing a comp pick. Hope the time lost was worth it. Hope Garza is an historically good whisperer. God forbid the Yankees ask someone who hasn't already been in the building for their opinion on anything."

 

https://yanksgoyard.com/yankees-new-director-of-international-scouting-only-makes-their-failure-more-baffling

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23 hours ago, caulfield12 said:
 

"Whoever was running the show down there must’ve been doing some pretty fucked up s%*# for this to all blow up and for them to all get fired. Wonder if they were skimming money off the top. Plus, most of these kids have all sucked anyway."

Compared to Jim Bowden/Dave Wilder situation with skimming bonuses.

 

Why the Yankees couldn’t afford the international scouting status quo

Jan 30, 2026 · The reality is the vast majority of international signings will not pan out. It is also reality that the Yankees have had their fair share of big misses...
 
 
 

Brother. How did you get a Captcha in your post even?

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