Yankees giving second life to worst player on roster with horrific position switch

Here the Yankees go again! Call it Miguel Andújar 2.0. This is another example of the organization failing to live with the reality that they ruined a top prospect, and it's coupled with the resistance of letting him go before he's completely at rock bottom in fear of another team benefitting.

According to NJ.com's Max Goodman, Oswald Peraza is learning the outfield for the first time in his professional career, and he could make the position switch this summer to provide the Yankees with more depth.

Because, of course, whenever you can be flexible with somebody who doesn't fit the roster at all, is hitting .160 with a 51 OPS+, and whose value purely comes in the form of infield versatility, you simply have to move him to the outfield.

Peraza cannot handle MLB duties at positions in which he's familiar with. How could a move to the outfield solve anything, especially when the Yankees have had a good thing going with Aaron Judge, Cody Bellinger, Trent Grisham and Jasson Dominguez?

Why will Yankees even bother attempting to move Oswald Peraza to the outfield?

In fact, many thought Peraza was going to be the corresponding roster casualty upon Giancarlo Stanton's return. It ended up being Pablo Reyes, who also had to go, but Peraza is very clearly next when the Yankees improve their roster at the trade deadline.

There definitely comes a time where you have to get creative with assets in order to maximize their contributions, but this is not one of those situations. The Yankees disrespected Peraza when they gifted Anthony Volpe the starting shortstop job in 2023 after Peraza had performed admirably in his MLB debut the season prior and even logged postseason reps. That contributed to his play cratering (in addition to a few injuries that limited him). He is now 25 years old and unfortunately offers nothing but a warm body on the bench for New York.

The Yankees allowed this situation to get this bad, turning Peraza into a change-of-scenery trade candidate. But they won't ever trade low on a talent, and they'd rather see it through to the bitter end than move on and get ahead of the problem (in this case, their poor depth).

Fans already had to go through Jasson Dominguez's growing pains in the outfield dating back to last season — and he's an outfielder. They'll have to repeat that with a natural shortstop who has been mostly playing third base all year?

We can already see the fanbase up in arms when Peraza makes a costly defensive mistake in left field during a July game right before the All-Star break.