Tate (shoulder) is "close" to being assigned to a full-season affiliate, per Yankees farm director Gary Denbo, Josh Norris of Baseball America reports.
He is currently pitching in extended spring training while he rehabs a shoulder injury. Tate is still something of a mystery, as the Rangers tried to change his mechanics and then traded him to the Yankees when the results were poor. The Yankees have had a lot of recent success with maximizing the abilities of their pitching prospects, so it is possible that Tate's stock could take off once he starts pitching this year, presumably at Low-A or High-A.