5 ⚾️ Names You Might Not Have Heard of Before, But Could Turn Heads This Spring

Spring Training is here, with games just about here, which makes this a great time for looking at yet another list of names who could see their card values increase over the next month or so.

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Is there any greater February sound then the click-clacking of metal baseball spikes running across pavement as players make their way from field to field?

Spring Training is here, with games just about here, which makes this a great time for looking at yet another list of names who could see their card values increase over the next month or shortly thereafter.

1. Yerry De Los Santos, Yankees

As a card flipper, these are the types of headlines I live for:

New York Yankees Unheralded Pitcher Garnering Attention at Spring Training

“unheralded” - ”garnering attention” - ”yankees”

And then you look and his rookie autos are literally a couple of bucks.

Who is Yerry De Los Santos and why haven’t you heard of him?

At Triple-A, he registered a 5.79 ERA across his first 27 appearances. But with the help of minor league pitching coach Gerardo Casadiego, his production took off after he began honing in on his splitter.

“He added the split and then kind of fixed the split,” Yankees pitching coach Matt Blake said, via Brendan Kuty of The Athletic. “That kind of gave him a lefty weapon. And I actually think it gives him a righty weapon, too. It seems to be, like, an equalizer for him."

Over the final 24 appearances of 2024, De Los Santos registered an impressive 2.04 ERA. That level of dominance has carried over into the spring, as he is turning some heads and catching the attention of the right people, such as manager Aaron Boone. Source