Yankees calling up elite prospect Oswald Peraza Anthony Volpe to Triple-A

ST. PETERSBURG — Oswald Peraza is having his shot. The Yankees are adding a single of their prime potential clients to the expanded 28-gentleman roster. The transfer will come on the heel of a devastating loss to the Angels and the Yankees needing to get back again on track immediately after a brutal month of August.

The 22-yr-previous shortstop is viewed as the Yankees’ No. 2 prospect at the rear of Anthony Volpe. In 98 game titles at Triple-A Scranton this season, Peraza strike .258 with 18 homers, 49 RBI and a .769 OPS with 33 stolen bases.

Peraza is regarded as a stable defender, and his bat has gotten louder as the year has absent on. Given that June, Peraza has hit .291 with 14 household operates and 22 steals. Just as essential right after Wednesday night’s reduction, Peraza is regarded a excellent defensive shortstop.

Wednesday night’s 3-2 decline to the Angels featured an mistake by Isiah Kiner-Falefa in the sixth inning. That was magnified when a hitter later, Shohei Ohtani hammered a Gerrit Cole fastball for a 3-operate residence operate.

“He’s been a single of the ideal defenders in the league at shortstop,” Aaron Boone claimed when requested about Kiner-Falefa’s faults in big spots. “Shortstops and infielders make an error each and every now and then. … It is a enjoy you must make clearly, but he’s been just one of the most effective defenders in the league. He didn’t make the engage in that time.”

Kiner-Falefa has 12 errors this period and according to Baseball Savant, he is a -2 in runs prevented this period.

Peraza has performed all but a handful of game titles the final month at shortstop. Curiously, the Yankees did have him participate in second base for 3 game titles this month. That is where by the Yankees have one more struggling participant in Gleyber Torres.

With the other roster place, the Yankees returned Marwin Gonzalez from the paternity listing.

Anthony Volpe, the Yankees’ prime prospect, is obtaining promoted. As anticipated, the 21-calendar year-aged from New Jersey will be heading to Triple-A Scranton this weekend, a person stage away from the majors, a source verified.

Volpe is hitting .252/.350/.470 with an .820 OPS and 18 home operates in 109 online games with the Double-A Somerset team.

The initially-round draft pick out of Delbarton High College will exchange Peraza.

Volpe is rated the eighth-finest prospect in baseball in the most current rankings by MLB.com and is projected to make his large league debut at some level following period.

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