Unfortunately for him, that’s exactly what happened, with Volpe’s red-hot performances that spring leapfrogging him over his teammate to win the shortstop competition, relegating Peraza to another year trying to earn a job on the major league roster.Ģ023 Statistics: 52 games, 191 PA. The combination of his seniority over fellow top prospect Anthony Volpe and Isiah Kiner-Falefa’s woeful performance as stopgap a year prior led many of us to believe that it would be Peraza’s job to lose in spring. He had already impressed the team in his 18-game cameo in September 2022, slashing.
When the Yankees announced that they were awarding the major league starting shortstop job based on spring training performance, Oswald Peraza had to like his chances.
