The Yankees need to do something with Hoy Jun Park, but are their hands tied?

Last night in Joe Biden's secret Railrider enclave of Scranton, 2B Hoy Jun Park went 1-for-2 with two walks, lifting his average to .355 - 2nd in the former International League, (or whatever they now call it.) In 39 games at Triple A, Park has 8 HRs, 5 stolen bases and leads all of Creation with an OPS of 1.096. A native of South Korea who missed last year due to the shutdown, he is 25, plays SS, bats LH and lately has dabbled in LF. 

Yeesh. Will the Yankees let him rot there? 

Park is one of the last vestiges of the rather unimpactful 2014 international signing blitz, when the Yankees basically spent like Jeffrey Epstein on 16-year-old Latinos. (The big signing that year - Dermis Garcia, now 23 - is still in Double A Somerset, with 15 HRs, hitting a wee .170, with a troubling 93 Ks. Another signee, 23-year-old CF Estevan Florial is treading water in Scranton, hitting .224 with 5 HRs. He also has a proclivity for striking out - with 48 in 36 games.) 

Park is one the few shovel-ready prospects who seemingly can help the Yankees this season. Trouble is... where? Would they bench SS Gleyber Torres? Nope. Or DJ LeMahieu? Not a chance. Is he a left-fielder? Maybe, but what a waste of talent. No... and I'm gritting my teeth now... they will probably trade him.

As you may suspect, I'm no fan of trading innocent youth for cagy vets. In fact, I blame late July salary dumps for much of the now 12-year Yankee malaise. The Death Barge remains a team of first-impression superstars - Gary Sanchez, Aaron Judge, Miguel Andujar, Clint Frazier, Luke Voit, Luis Severino, Gleyber - who never lived up to expectations. (Even Judge isn't comparable to his Ruthian rookie season.) The Yankees show little patience for slow risers like Park, though he certainly looks like someone other teams would covet.  

The craziest part here is that he bats LH - exactly what the Yankees need. And it's sort of funny, if you think about it: How can a middling team, barely over .500 and virtually eliminated from its division race, field a lineup so set-into-concrete that there is no place for someone like Park? Well, that's the Yankee way. 

They offer money, but never opportunity. 

How often in the last two years did they ignore - and nearly lose - Nasty Nestor (Octavio) Cortez, who last night shut down Houston in a way we might not see again in this series. The Yankees have never seemed impressed with Cortez's 89-mph fastball - good grief, Nick Nelson throws so much harder! - so they simply dismissed his guile and command. In fact, Cortez is EXACTLY the kind of pitcher that regularly shuts down the Yankees. Still, they seem more obsessed with radar guns (which, I admit, must be great fun. They're guns - that shoot radar!)

Now, will they wait until Park cools off, or just ignore him? What's the plan for this guy? We don't have many assets who can both seemingly help this team and also build for the future. What's the plan, Cash?