Oswald Peraza has arrived in the bigs…and now Anthony Volpe is one step away.
The Somerset Patriots announced Friday that on the heels of Peraza being called up to MLB, No. 1 organizational prospect Volpe has been promoted from Double-A to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
From the Patriots’ release:
The Somerset County native ends his time with the Patriots as the team leader in home runs (18), RBIs (60), SLG (.472), hits (106), doubles (31), triples (4, T-1st), extra base hits (53), total bases (199), runs (71), multi-hit games (26) and stolen bases (44). He also ranked second on the team in batting average (.251), OPS (.820) and walks (57) and third in OBP (.348), making it so that he ranked top three on the team in 16 different offensive categories.
For the season, Volpe ranks among the Eastern League leaders in several statistics. He is tied for first in doubles (31) and extra base hits (52), second in runs (71) and stolen bases (44), and third in total bases (199). Volpe was also selected to the 2022 MLB Futures Game played at Dodger Stadium as part of the All-Star Game festivities.
The 21-year-old is the Yankees’ consensus No. 1 prospect and is ranked No. 5 overall by MLB.com, behind the Mets’ Francisco Alvarez, Baltimore’s Gunnar Henderson, Arizona’s Corbin Carroll, and Baltimore’s Grayson Ramirez – all of whom but Ramirez are at the Triple-A or MLB levels as of Sept.
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