Over the coming weeks and months, we will break down the Yankees’ farm system leading into the minor league season, position-by-position. The first group up is the shortstops. The Yankees have used high draft picks and big international signing bonuses over the last few years to add talent at the position, so the result is a deep but not MLB-ready group of prospects.
Signed out of Venezuela in 2016, Oswald Peraza was not considered an elite prospect through his first few seasons in the Yankees’ organization. That changed in 2019, as improved tools caught the eyes of scouts around baseball.