No Yankees prospect rose up the prospect rankings during the 2019 season quite like Oswald Peraza. A solid but unspectacular prospect when he signed with the Yankees during the 2016 international free agency period, he performed well right from the start at the lower levels of the minors.
Despite those strong initial performances in rookie ball, Peraza was still not considered a major prospect. With his promotion to the now-defunct Short-Season A Staten Island and then Low-A Charleston in 2019, scouts began to notice improved tools and underlying metrics that warranted a deeper look.
Peraza went from an unranked prospect to top six within the Yankees’ organization by the end of 2019.