{"id":1484185,"date":"2022-05-19T11:16:31","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T15:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1484185"},"modified":"2022-05-19T11:16:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T15:16:43","slug":"new-york-yankees-minor-leaguer-cut-for-allegedly-stealing-more-than-bases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-yankees-minor-leaguer-cut-for-allegedly-stealing-more-than-bases\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Yankees\u2019 Minor Leaguer Cut For Allegedly Stealing More Than Bases"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fnew-york-yankees-minor-leaguer-cut-for-allegedly-stealing-more-than-bases%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=1484185&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-19-at-8.56.04-AM.png?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/yankees-general-manager-says-houston-astros-cheating-scandal-reason-for-world-series-drought\">New York Yankees<\/a>\u2018 minor league prospect was allegedly stealing more than just bases, and his path to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/mlb\">big leagues<\/a> has just become a lot tougher.<\/p>\n<p>Jake Sanford, the team\u2019s third-round draft pick in 2019 and a budding star with good power, was allegedly stealing equipment including bats and gloves from his teammates\u2019 lockers and selling them online, according to <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\">NJ.com<\/a>. When the club learned of the accusations, it launched an investigation that led to Sanford getting his walking papers a week ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was scamming other players,\u201d a source told the outlet.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sources: The Yankees cut third-round pick Jake Sanford after he allegedly stole bats and gloves from teammates and tried to sell them online. He also allegedly scammed fans, selling autographed equipment and never delivering: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SzalxLAqjc\">https:\/\/t.co\/SzalxLAqjc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brendan Kuty (@BrendanKutyNJ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrendanKutyNJ\/status\/1527015950872084480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sanford, who had been playing minor league ball for the club\u2019s\u00a0Florida Complex League team, allegedly pestered his teammates\u00a0for their equipment to sell online, but also just stole it from their lockers at times, the source said.<\/p>\n<p id=\"DRCVHQR2CRAU5C7UAZ6WFG5T2U\" class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\">The 24-year-old outfielder, who played college baseball at Western Kentucky University, was signed for almost $600,000 after being drafted. Last season, the lefty batted .285 with 16 homers and 61 RBI in the low minor leagues.<\/p>\n<p>Sanford\u2019s college coach was John Pawlowski, who also coached former Yankee Brett Gardner at the College of Charleston. Coaches and scouts compared Sanford\u2019s skills to Gardner\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf this one can do what Gardy did, then we\u2019ve had a hell of a Draft on its own,\u201d Yankees director of scouting Damon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/yankees\/news\/yankees-2019-draft-day-2-coverage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Oppenheimer told MLB.com at the time<\/a>. \u201cHe really reminds us of [former Rockies All-Star] Brad Hawpe. He\u2019s got huge power; it\u2019s easy, he drives the ball the other way. The combination of the power and the speed he has, being a guy who is kind of young and just starting at this thing, it made him real attractive to us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"5N7IDBO55NBPNBXQZ3SG6ZK5HQ\" class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\">Sanford signed with the Ottawa Titans of the Frontier League on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>People on social media claimed they were also victimized by Sanford. Some accused him of taking their money for autographed equipment that he never delivered.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Yankees have released 2019 3rd Round Pick Jake Sanford. <\/p>\n<p>Sanford was a Top 30 Prospect as recently as last season and slashed .285\/.356\/.467 across 101 games in Tampa and Hudson Valley last season. <\/p>\n<p>He was strangely left off a roster last month and was released Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Yankees Top Prospect Watch (@NYY_Prospects) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYY_Prospects\/status\/1525348497733701632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"UHQZEOECRNFUVINU2TWHLOWQPU\" class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\">Shane Ronan, of Tampa, claimed he bid $75 on Twitter for a pair of Sanford-signed baseball gloves, but Sanford never showed up to deliver them at an agreed-upon meeting place.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThen he ghosted me,\u201d Ronan said. \u201cHe got a bit nasty with me about it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"EHU2LRNGDJC6XEMBZUD4WYSLLU\" class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\">Matt Shea said in a Facebook memorabilia group that he also was a victim, according to NJ.com.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ONQFWHAAXJDANNIFXMGXU3XZPA\" class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\">\u201cAnyone wanna hear how I got scammed out of 600 [dollars] by Jake Sanford of the Yankees?\u201d Shea wrote on May 9. \u201cIf he doesn\u2019t pay up by tonight it will be over 2.5 months and that\u2019s time to spill the beans and get this guy to be the biggest scum in milb history.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New York Yankees\u2018 minor league prospect was allegedly stealing more than just bases, and his path to the big leagues has just become a lot tougher.Jake Sanford, the team\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":729,"featured_media":1484210,"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-1484185","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\/1484185","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\/729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1484185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1484210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1484185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1484185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1484185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}