{"id":1483953,"date":"2022-05-19T08:20:53","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T12:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1483953"},"modified":"2022-05-19T08:21:37","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T12:21:37","slug":"yankees-cut-prospect-jake-sanford-for-allegedly-scamming-fans-stealing-from-teammates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/yankees-cut-prospect-jake-sanford-for-allegedly-scamming-fans-stealing-from-teammates\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees Cut Prospect Jake Sanford for Allegedly Scamming Fans &#038; Stealing from Teammates"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fyankees-cut-prospect-jake-sanford-for-allegedly-scamming-fans-stealing-from-teammates%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1483953&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>BALTIMORE \u2014 Following in the footsteps of the infamous Ruben Rivera, another Yankees prospect has been released for allegedly stealing from his teammates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees cut 2019 third-round pick Jake Sanford last Thursday for allegedly stealing from his minor league teammates and scamming people for money online, The Post confirmed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to a source, the 24-year-old outfielder was released last week after a team investigation found Sanford had stolen from teammates, including equipment that he would then try to sell online, as first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/yankees\/2022\/05\/yankees-cut-3rd-round-prospect-who-allegedly-stole-equipment-from-teammates-and-tried-to-sell-it.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported by NJ Advance Media<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, a source said Sanford, who played college baseball at Western Kentucky, also accepted money from prospective buyers for the equipment then failed to deliver the products.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/jake-sanford-1.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption>Jake Sanford stole from his minor league teammates and scammed people for money online.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Hudson Valley Renegades<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/jake-sanford-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/jake-sanford-2.jpg\" alt=\"Jake Sanford accepted money from prospective buyers for the equipment then failed to deliver the products.\u00a0\" class=\"wp-image-22328290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/jake-sanford-2.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/jake-sanford-2.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/jake-sanford-2.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Jake Sanford accepted money from prospective buyers for the equipment then failed to deliver the products.\u00a0<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Hudson Valley Renegades<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The issues, another source said, could be related to gambling debts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees declined to comment on the situation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/jake2-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/jake2-1.jpg\" alt=\"Yankees prospect Jake Sanford was reportedly cut by the team for stealing from teammates.\" class=\"wp-image-22323343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/jake2-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/jake2-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/jake2-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Yankees prospect Jake Sanford was reportedly cut by the team for stealing from teammates.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/@j_cob22<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rivera, once a prized-prospect, was released by the Yankees during spring training in 2002 for stealing Derek Jeter\u2019s glove and bat and reportedly selling them. Rivera, a cousin of Mariano Rivera, had just signed to return to the Yankees earlier that spring.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sanford was drafted in 2019 and received a signing bonus of $597,500.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to one AL scout, Sanford was not considered an elite prospect, which likely made it easier for the franchise to cut ties with him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The outfielder split last season between Low-A Tampa and High-A Hudson Valley, and hit a combined 16 homers and finished an OPS of .823.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"single__inline-module inline-module inline-module--newsletter alignright\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n<h3 class=\"inline-module__title headline headline--combo-sm-md\">\n\t\t\tGo beyond the box score with the Bombers\t\t<\/h3>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\tSign up for Inside the Yankees by Dan Martin, exclusively on Sports+.\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>He made <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/06\/06\/yankees-draft-pick-starting-off-a-bit-like-brett-gardner-did\/\">his professional debut in 2019 season<\/a> before the 2020 minor league season was canceled due to COVID-19.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After he was released last week, Sanford deactivated his Twitter account.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The lefty-swinging Sanford has since signed with the Ottawa Titans in the Frontier League, an independent team.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sanford was managed by John Pawlowski at Western Kentucky. Pawlowski also managed Brett Gardner at the College of Charleston. And Sanford\u2019s skill-set was seen by some as similar to that of Gardner, who, like Sanford, was a third-round Yankees draft pick, in 2005.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gardner spent 14 seasons in The Bronx and remains unsigned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BALTIMORE \u2014 Following in the footsteps of the infamous Ruben Rivera, another Yankees prospect has been released for allegedly stealing from his teammates.\u00a0 The Yankees cut 2019 third-round<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":505,"featured_media":1484014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1483953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/505"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1483953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1484014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1483953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1483953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1483953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}