In recent weeks, Yankees reliever Ron Marinaccio passed the threshold for service time to exhaust his prospect status, and this will officially be his rookie year. That Marinaccio hit this requirement as a prospect of note is a story in itself, as he was not highly regarded when the Yankees first selected him in the MLB draft. He was not on any prospect rankings as recently as the lost 2020 minor league season as he debuted at the Double-A level.
That all changed once evaluators got their first looks of the 2021 season at a much-improved Marinaccio, who has continued to develop and earn his spot on the major league roster.