Yankee rookie Clint Frazier has one BB in 63 PA. Problem? And how have Yanks handled their 40 man roster?

At least 40 Plate Appearances (PA) and zero Bases on Balls (BB) are all pitchers:

Rk	Player	PA	BB	OPS+	OPS	Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	IBB	SO	HBP	SH	SF	GDP	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	Pos
1	Ivan Nova	46	0	-86	.051	2017	30	PIT	NL	20	39	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	25	0	7	0	0	0	0	.026	.026	.026	*1
2	Jake Arrieta	45	0	10	.432	2017	31	CHC	NL	22	44	2	7	0	1	1	5	0	21	0	1	0	0	0	0	.159	.159	.273	*1/H
3	Jeff Samardzija	44	0	-25	.293	2017	32	SFG	NL	23	41	1	4	1	0	1	2	0	16	0	3	0	0	0	0	.098	.098	.195	*1/H
4	Jimmy Nelson	43	0	-49	.195	2017	28	MIL	NL	20	41	0	4	0	0	0	2	0	23	0	2	0	0	0	0	.098	.098	.098	*1
5	R.A. Dickey	41	0	-44	.211	2017	42	ATL	NL	19	38	0	4	0	0	0	5	0	10	0	3	0	0	0	0	.105	.105	.105	*1

The non-pitcher with the most PA and zero BB: Yankee rookie 1B Garrett Cooper: 24 PA, OPS+ 58, OPS .625.

At least 60 PA and ONE BB:

Rk	Player	PA	BB	OPS+	OPS	Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	IBB	SO	HBP	SH	SF	GDP	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	Pos
1	Arismendy Alcantara	93	1	25	.487	2017	25	CIN	NL	62	92	12	18	3	1	1	6	0	33	0	0	0	1	1	0	.196	.204	.283	*H/498657
2	Erik Gonzalez	68	1	92	.753	2017	25	CLE	AL	30	66	11	19	5	0	2	4	0	23	0	1	0	0	1	0	.288	.299	.455	*4/65H7
3	Clint Frazier	63	1	129	.908	2017	22	NYY	AL	16	61	7	18	6	2	3	11	0	18	0	0	1	2	0	0	.295	.302	.607	*7/9D
4	Justin Ruggiano	63	1	50	.571	2017	35	SFG	NL	19	60	2	13	1	0	2	4	0	17	1	0	1	0	1	1	.217	.238	.333	*9/7H8
5	Marco Hernandez	60	1	66	.628	2017	24	BOS	AL	21	58	7	16	3	0	0	2	0	15	1	0	0	0	0	1	.276	.300	.328	/546H

None are pitchers and the only batter with above league average OPS+ is another Yankee rookie: OF Clint Frazier: .295/.302./.607/.908.

Frazier has achieved his .607 SLG with 11 of his 18 hits being for extra bases. Frazier's hits:
1B: 7
2B: 6
3B: 2
HR: 3

Only one of his three homers would likely be a homer with baseballs that are not juiced but even if both of his questionable homers were reduced to doubles, Frazier would still have really good numbers.

But is this sustainable given that Frazier has only one BB? Even with 11 extra base, pitchers apparently are not afraid of Frazier. Maybe they should be. On the other hand, Frazier has Struck Out (SO) in 18 of his 61 At Bats (AB). It's not really high but his SO to BB ratio is 18 to 1. Ouch.

Obviously, extra base hits are a lot more valuable than BB. A lot more. But there is also Frazier's weird swing. Why hasn't anyone else noticed it? Frazier takes a sort of emergency hack as part of his regular repertoire. He does it fairly often and rarely gets a hit doing it. Maybe that's why it took Frazier a whopping 2,327 minor league PA to finally be called up and even then only after injuries to other outfielders. Frazier will be 23 on Sept. 6, so there's still plenty of time to develop.

Frazier was the key minor league player acquired one year ago when Yankee General Manager Brian Cashman traded lefty relief pitcher Andrew Miller to the eventual American League champion Cleveland Indians. Cashman was tanking the season by trading valuable major league players for minor league prospects. Funny how that works. About one month after receiving Frazier, Cashman traded International League MVP Ben Gamel to Seattle. Cashman essentially gave away Gamel, who is now 25.

Brian Cashman traded Ben Gamel August 31, 2016 for Juan De Paula and Jio Orozco. Saturday, July 22, 2017

Was this a mistake or was Cashman making the best of the 40 player roster?

2017 is Gamel's first full major league season. Yanks traded him right after he had been named 2016 International League MVP, so his value was relatively high. So far in 2017 in 318 plate appearances: OPS+ 123: .319/.372/.448/.820.

Gamel is hitting 23% better than league average.
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During the TV broadcast of yesterday's Yankee game in Seattle former Yankee pitcher David Cone was explaining that it was a numbers game, that Gamel was being crowded off the Yankee 40 man roster to make room for ... others. Apparently one of those was Clint Frazier.

So what's the point of tanking, adding minor league players, then giving away other minor league players you already have to make room for the newer ones? Didn't Cashman understand all this? Cashman is in year number 20 as Yankee GM. Surely, either he or some hot shot subordinate knows how to play the GM game, right? No one expects main stream media types much less Yankee owner and managing general partner Hal Steinbrenner to know. But shouldn't there be some oversight, some accountability?