Yankees Who Fell Short of Greatness (A Roster)

By Paul Semendinger

January 31, 2024

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Over the last few weeks, we have created some fun lists of players by positions...

• Our Favorite Yankees

• Our Favorite Opponents

Here's another list that it original to our site and one that took a lot of thought to create - a list of prospects or non-stars who were Yankees who I hoped would be great Yankees, but never quite made it.

This is a list of players who didn't achieve stardom as Yankees. It's a list of players who I hoped had bright futures, but who, in the end, didn't. This list doesn't include prospects like Willie McGee or Fred McGriff who became stars elsewhere nor does it list players like Jack Clark who came to the Yankees and weren't as great as I hoped.

These were some of the players I dreamed on, and imaged stardom for, but who, for various reasons, never reached the heights I had hoped for...

C- Jesus Montero

1B- Greg Bird, Kevin Maas

2B- Homer Bush

SS- Andre Robertson, Bobby Meacham

3B- Hensley Meulens/ Miguel Andujar

LF- Dan Pasqua

CF- Gerald Williams

RF- Ruben Rivera

DH- Steve Balboni

P- Charles Hudson, Chuck Cary, Adrian Hernandez, Ted Lilly, Ray Fontenot, Justus Sheffield

RP- Bob Shirley, Phil Coke, Cecilio Guante

As with all these lists, I'm sure there are other players who I forgot. As the readers share their lists, I'll probably update my own. (These have been added to the above and are in italics.)

ENJOY!