ESPN | Kiley McDaniel It’s not baseball season yet, but at least it’s prospect season! We have seen most lists by now, but ESPN prospect specialist Kiley McDaniel published his on Tuesday. Four Yankees made the top 100: the three usual suspects (Anthony Volpe at 6, Oswald Peraza at 25, and Jasson Domínguez at 32), plus one surprising newcomer in these lists: outfielder Everson Pereira.
Here is what McDaniel had to say about Pereira: “He’s probably always going to have a 20-30% strikeout rate given his power-based approach, and he’s fringy in center field right now, so he could slide over to right field eventually.