Oswald Dair Peraza (born June 15, 2000) is a Venezuelan
professional baseball third baseman and
shortstop for the
New York Yankees of
Major League Baseball (MLB). Peraza signed with the Yankees as an international free agent in 2016. He made his MLB debut in 2022.
Career
Peraza signed with the
New York Yankees as an international free agent in July 2016. He made his professional debut in 2017 with the
Dominican Summer League Yankees
The Dominican Summer Yankees are a minor league baseball team in the Dominican Summer League. The team plays in the Boca Chica South division and is affiliated with the New York Yankees
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. He was later promoted to the
Gulf Coast Yankees that season.
Peraza played the 2018 season with the
Pulaski Yankees and 2019 with the
Staten Island Yankees and
Charleston RiverDogs. He did not play a minor league game in 2020 due to season being cancelled because of the
COVID-19 pandemic.
The Yankees added Peraza to their
40-man roster
A Major League Baseball roster is a list of players who are allowed, by league agreement, to play for a Major League Baseball (MLB) team. Each MLB team maintains two rosters: an active roster of players eligible to participate in an MLB game, and ...
after the 2020 season to protect him from being exposed in the
Rule 5 draft. He played the 2021 season with the
Hudson Valley Renegades,
Somerset Patriots, and
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders. Peraza returned to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre for the 2022 season, batting .259/.329/.448 in 386 at bats.
The Yankees promoted Peraza to the major leagues for the first time on September 1, 2022. On October 4, Peraza hit his first career home run, a solo shot off of
Texas Rangers starter
Jon Gray. In 49 at bats he hit .306/.404/.429, while playing 12 games at shortstop and four games at second base.
Peraza was optioned to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre to begin the 2023 season. The Yankees promoted Peraza to the major leagues on April 16 when
Giancarlo Stanton went on the injured list. He began to start as a
third baseman due to
Josh Donaldson's injury, even though he had not played the position before. In 52 games for the Yankees, Peraza hit .191/.267/.272 with 2 home runs, 14 RBI, and 4 stolen bases.
On March 9, 2024, it was announced that Peraza would miss 6–8 weeks with a
subscapularis
The subscapularis is a large triangular muscle which fills the subscapular fossa and inserts into the lesser tubercle of the humerus and the front of the capsule of the shoulder-joint.
Structure
It arises from its medial two-thirds and
Som ...
strain in his right shoulder.
References
External links
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2000 births
Living people
Baseball players from Barquisimeto
Cardenales de Lara players
Charleston RiverDogs players
Dominican Summer League Yankees players
Gulf Coast Yankees players
Hudson Valley Renegades players
Major League Baseball players from Venezuela
Major League Baseball infielders
New York Yankees players
Pulaski Yankees players
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders players
Somerset Patriots players
Staten Island Yankees players
Tampa Tarpons players
Venezuelan expatriate baseball players in the Dominican Republic
Venezuelan expatriate baseball players in the United States