Andrew Brackman was the Yankees’ first round pick in 2007. He’s tall. He had some serious promise. But he’s never put it together at all, and today the Yankees declined his 2012 option -- he had a major league deal -- and Brackman is now a free agent.
Brackman had Tommy John surgery after he was drafted, missed all of 2008 recovering and since then has put up minor league ERAs of 5.91, 3.90 and 6.00, while seeing his strikeout rate decline and his walk rate skyrocket. At this point the guy who was always going to be a project simply wasn’t worth a spot on the 40-man roster. And now he can become someone else’s project.
