How Cade Winquest is attempting to make a special sort of Yankees historical past
TAMPA — Cade Winquest is the place he thought he can be, just some years delayed.
Standing inside the house clubhouse at Steinbrenner Area on Thursday morning, Winquest flashed again to July of 2022, half-hour earlier than the beginning of the MLB draft, when he had a Zoom assembly with the Yankees.
“They sort of informed me, ‘Hey, we wish you to be a Yankee by the tip of the day,’” Winquest stated. “It simply so occurred that the Cardinals had [three] picks earlier than them they usually ended up taking me earlier than. However I used to be beneath the impression I used to be going to be a Yankee that day.”
The Yankees drafted a school right-hander named Cam Schlittler with their seventh-round decide, then thought they could have an opportunity to nab Winquest within the eighth spherical with the 250th-overall decide earlier than the Cardinals scooped him up at No. 247.
