August is over, and with its departure comes a new month — and new Major League Baseball roster rules. Like last year and earlier this season during the post-lockout opening months, teams will be allowed to carry 28 players. The September limit is a fairly new concept, but not terribly unsurprising, given how those old games could drag.
In most years of the past decade, the Yankees’ September call-ups haven’t been particularly exciting. Usually, it’s a reliever or a bench player — perhaps a pinch-running specialist or a third catcher. That’s not the case this time, as New York is finally smashing the Oswald Peraza button, per Joel Sherman of the New York Post.