The last-place New York Yankees will promote a pair of high prospects this week, outfielder Everson Pereira and infielder Oswald Peraza, in accordance with a number of experiences.
Pereira and Peraza are anticipated to be in uniform for Tuesday evening’s sequence opener towards the visiting Washington Nationals. They’ll journey to the Bronx after leaving their teammates at Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
The Yankees, who had been off on Monday, are within the throes of an eight-game shedding streak and had been swept by the rival Boston Purple Sox final weekend. Because the week started, New York was a minimum of six video games behind everybody else within the American League East, and 9 video games off the tempo within the AL wild-card race.
“You all the time have an opportunity, however we’re in a giant gap now,” New York supervisor Aaron Boone mentioned Sunday. “However you’ll be able to’t even get big-picture about it. You’ve got simply bought deal with the following day. That is what we’re in proper now.”
In 81 video games this season between Triple-A and Double-A Somerset, the 22-year-old Pereira has hit .300 with a .373 on-base proportion and a .548 slugging proportion with 18 homers, 11 stolen bases and 64 RBIs.
Since being promoted to Triple-A, Pereira has slashed .312/.386/.551 with eight homers and 33 RBIs over 35 video games.
Peraza, 23, is hitting .268 with 14 homers and 36 RBIs in 63 video games at Triple-A. He appeared in 19 video games for the Yankees earlier this season, hitting .173 with 4 steals and 6 RBIs. In 18 video games with New York in 2022, Peraza hit .306 with a house run and two RBIs.
Each gamers are on the 40-man roster, so the Yankees should make corresponding roster strikes earlier than Tuesday’s first pitch.
The Yankees are additionally sending present No. 2 prospect Jasson Dominguez to Triple-A, in accordance with a report in The Athletic. Since July 1, the 20-year-old outfielder has slashed .333/.401/.494 with 5 homers and 29 RBIs in 42 video games at Double-A.
Total this season, Dominguez is hitting .254 with 15 dwelling runs, 66 RBIs and a .781 OPS in 109 video games.
The YES Community first reported information of New York’s choice on Pereira and Peraza.
Info from Reuters was used on this report.
