The Yankees third base situation is currently in flux, but they may have found their future at the hot corner in Notre Dame’s Eric Jagielo.
With the 26th pick in Thursday night’s Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft in Secaucus, the Yankees took the 6-foot-3 polished infielder who hit .388 with nine home runs in 196 at-bats his junior year at Notre Dame.
It snaps a recent Yankees trend of going to the high school ranks for prospects four of the previous five years. Jagielo, the Big East player of the year who led the league in slugging percentage (.633) and on-base percentage (.500), was the fourth third baseman taken, and the first third baseman the Yankees have used their first-round pick on since Eric Duncan in 2003.
Jagielo, a left-handed hitter, is seen as a player who can move through the system quickly, and with 2011 second-round pick, Dante Bichette Jr., struggling at third in Single-A, and Rodriguez’s future unclear, Jagielo could have a future in The Bronx.
The Yankees also picked 32nd and 33rd in the first round, as compensation for losing free agents Nick Swisher and Rafael Soriano. They landed 6-foot-7 outfielder Aaron Judge from Fresno State with the first of those two selections and left-hander Ian Clarkin from James Madison High School in San Diego with the other.
The two attended the draft and toured Yankee Stadium Thursday, though neither knew they would be Yankees by the end of the night.
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