The Yankees announced that they have placed left-hander Wandy Peralta on the 15-day injured list, retroactive to September 19, with a left triceps strain. In a corresponding move, they recalled right-hander Yoendrys Gómez, who will be making his major league debut as soon as he gets into a game.
Peralta, 32, has been a quietly effective reliever over the past few years. Dating back to the start of the 2020 campaign, he has an earned run average of 3.01 over 200 appearances. That includes a 2.83 ERA in 63 appearances for the Yankees this year, along with a 22.5% strikeout rate, 13.2% walk rate and 57.4% ground ball rate.
He hasn’t appeared in a game in over a week due to the triceps issue. Manager Aaron Boone told Bryan Hoch of MLB.com this week that the issue is considered “pretty minor,” but he’ll now land on the injured list regardless. Perhaps with the Yankees playing out the string on a lost season, they decided it best not to risk making the issue worse. Regardless of the severity, Peralta’s season is now done just based on the time left on the schedule.
Peralta is a free agent this winter and should be able to market himself well based on his aforementioned strong results in recent years. Ending the season on the injured list isn’t ideal, but there’s nothing at this point to suggest it will significantly impact his market or his 2024 season.
As for Gómez, the 23-year-old gets to the big leagues for the first time. Signed as an amateur out of Venezuela in 2016, he has been driving through the minors since then, but with his share of speed bumps. His work in the lower levels had impressed the club enough to get him a 40-man spot in November of 2020, to keep him out of that year’s Rule 5 draft. But he would only throw 23 2/3 innings of Single-A ball in 2021 due to a combination of a shoulder injury, contracting COVID-19 and then Tommy John surgery.
In the second half of 2022, he was able to throw 47 innings across three levels, finishing at Double-A with a combined 2.49 ERA in that time. This year, he’s made 19 Double-A starts with a 3.58 ERA and a strong 28.5% strikeout rate, but a concerning 13.5% walk rate. He’s been on Baseball America’s list of top 30 Yankee prospects since 2019, peaking at #8 going into 2021 but dropping to the back end due to recent hiccups.
Despite all the challenges he has faced, Gómez has persisted and will now get a brief look in the majors as this season winds down. He should be able to provide Boone with a multi-inning relief option as the club gets through the final week-plus of their schedule.
Gómez is in his final option season and will be out of options next year. Clubs are sometimes granted a fourth option if a player misses significant time due to injury, which could apply to Gómez based on his surgery, but that’s purely speculative.
Exciting for Yoendrys Gómez but risky….how many innings could it take before the injury bug could strike? Putting on the pinstripes…..dicey.
How can you ‘recall’ someone for the first time? Not sure why I’ve always found that term troubling 🙂
It’s from the perspective of the roster spot, not player – recall someone to fill a vacated roster spot. I don’t see an issue with the terminology.
The Yankees ‘recalled Yeondrys Gomez, who will be making his MLB debut.’ That doesn’t sound odd to you? I get it, it just is an odd way to refer to it. How about “The Yankees are calling up…’ Not a big deal, just odd to me.
It’s kind of like when football meatheads say “Oooo, Alabama is ‘going tempo'”! No – they are going ‘up tempo’, or ‘hurry up’, or whatever. Tempo just means the pace at which something occurs. Words have meaning, let’s try to use that meaning where we can.
You are all welcome for my psa! ;0)
Lol. I get it.
To the active roster
Never liked the terminology either, but I suspect it has something to do if the player is on the 40-man roster already. Gomez was. Meanwhile, Caminero on the Rays was termed a promotion as they had to “promote” him to the 40-man roster.
If true – I can live with that!
Since he was on the 40-man roster, he was officially optioned down to the minors when he didn’t make the team in Spring Training. So “recalled” is a correct word for someone who has been optioned down to the minors even if they have not played in a regular season game.
If he was not on the 40-man the terminology would be “selected the contract”.
I love when Jim Nantz says something like “He’s out with a knee.” One time he said “He’s out with a ham”. Is it that hard to say the whole phrase?
He was already on the 40-man roster.
But not the 26-man.
Because it’s just plain wrong….”Yankees call up so-and-so.” Not “Yankees recall so-and-so…”
if you’re a yankee fan “pretty minor” = “see you in 2025”
From double AA, interesting.
Yawn…..let me know when they fire Cashman
Promote more rookies this team is not going to make the playoffs.
They’re not??
Cashman only has a few days left, one would presume.
Stanton?
Okay, so Gomez has about the same walk rate as Peralta but his is “concerning” but Peralta’s is fine?
Glad to see the club call up some minor leaguers–Florial had a good game last night. That guy has all the tools of Dominguez but none of the marketing. This team is like a totally different club than it has been the last decade. Youth movement on the Yankees?