Sox-for-Santana deal any minute now?

The Pioneer Press is reporting that the Red Sox remain in the lead in trading for Johan Santana, and that a deal could be announced any minute.
The article states that the group of prospects the Sox have available to trade are closer to being ready for the Major Leagues than the Yankees' prospects.
The Yankees have a depleted, not-ready-for-primetime group of prospects? How could that be after all these years of shipping them off for aging, steroid-riddled has-beens?