Adeinis Hechavarria's Agent: "We Should Have News Soon"

Written by Greg Fertel | 11 March 2010

The New York Post's George King has more on Cuban shortstop Adeinis Hechavarria.

• Five teams are interested.
• Hechavarria has a body like Alfonso Soriano.
• The Yankees have scouted Hechavarria more extensively than any other team.

There were a few other things I was looking for in this article. When we first heard of the Yankees interest in Hechavarria, someone passed along a blog post on him from the Cuban Ball Players Blog.

There were a few discrepancies in the information that was supplied by King and by the Cuban blog. King reported Hechavarria as 21-years-old while the blog listed him as 19-years-old. Also the spelling of his name appeared as Adeiny Hechavarria on the blog.

On MLBTR, Mike Axisa also refers to the Cuban shortstop as 19 and spells his name Adeiny. The fact is, we just don't know all there is to know about this kid except for the fact that he can play ball.

Being that this is a George King article, there is some ridiculousness sprinkled in. King speculates that Hechavarria could be the Yankees second baseman, meaning that the Yankees would trade Robinson Cano after the 2010 season.

Hechavarria isn't a player who is going to come right into the majors and take the job of a player like Robinson Cano. The Yankees aren't going to trade Cano away to make room for an unproven 20 or 22-year-old.

The Yankees farm system could use a nice boost, and signing Hechavarria would add a nice up-the-middle talent to the pipeline. He won't be cheap, though. Expect him to sign for over $8 million, whether it's with the Yankees or not.