Yankees call up top prospect fans have been begging for as rosters expand

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The Yankees called up one of their top prospects that fans have been clamoring to see in the big leagues: Oswald Peraza.

New York announced the roster move ahead of their three-game series with the Tampa Bay Rays, as Peraza will travel from the Scranton-Wilkes Barre RailRiders to join the team in Florida.

Peraza is currently ranked the No. 3 overall prospect in the Yankees’ farm system by MLB Pipeline. Only Anthony Volpe, the team’s former first-round draft choice and another shortstop, is ahead of him.

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New York Yankees' prospect Oswald Peraza plays shortstop in a spring training game against the Detroit Tigers at George M. Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, Florida, on March 5, 2021. (J. Conrad Williams Jr./Newsday RM via Getty Images)

The right-handed hitter has been flexing his muscle this season in Triple-A, hitting his 19th homer just hours ago on Thursday against the Syracuse Mets. He came into the day slashing .258/.329/.440 with 18 homers and 49 RBI.

The reason fans have been wishing the Yankees called him up sooner is due to their current shortstop situation in the Bronx as the team continues to struggle in the second half.

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Isiah Kiner-Falefa was brought in this offseason as a stopgap option, creating a short-term fix as the Yankees trust in Peraza or Volpe to emerge as an MLB-quality shortstop. But Kiner-Falefa has been a liability at times at shortstop, as he currently ranks in the 29th percentile of Outs Above Average, which is a ranged-based Statcast measurement used to determine how many outs a player has