Tucked between the swirling trade winds at the end of deadline day that brought the Yankees Camilo Doval and Jose Caballero was a deal that shipped former top prospect Oswald Peraza out of town.
Peraza entered the big-league picture with plenty of Top 100 shine. Yankee fans clamored for his arrival during a summer of 2022 slump, only for his debut to be maximum levels of disrespectful, a pinch-hitting appearance in the ninth inning of a blowout loss in Tampa Bay on Sept. 2 (he struck out).
Though a small sample size, he debuted with aplomb from that point forward; it's easy to forget now he hit .