The Cubs have asked the Yankees for at least five of their elite prospects for Sosa, and those discussions have not advanced.

Watson refused to deal any elite prospects for the right-handed batters.

He has even considered not playing high school basketball, an option that would be virtually unprecedented for an elite prospect.

In the 1997 pre-draft scouting process, we identified tackle Ross Verba as an elite prospect.

Next Tuesday, they have a chance to take another elite prospect with a major leaguer in the family.

The Yankees are not stocked with elite prospects and have few dynamic players on the major league roster who are easy to trade.

Scott Wiggins is a 26-year-old reliever who was at Class AA and is not an elite prospect.

By the time he was 20, Frazier was one of the elite heavyweight prospects in the world.

Neither player is widely considered an elite prospect, and Baseball America ranked the Yankees 24th out of 30 teams in overall minor league talent last month.

They have passed all the tests that coaches and recruiters give when determining elite prospects.