Yerry DE Los Santos

Performance Analysis

How Yerry De Los Santos plays at RP earns him a B- performance grade. That mark positions him as a functional, above-average reliever at the organizational level—a genuine asset in Triple-A depth conversations rather than the organizational filler his sentiment profile suggests. His 2026 season shows 6 strikeouts across 2 games, demonstrating the kind of limited exposure that comes with a yo-yo arrangement between the majors and minors; the lack of a win-loss record attached to those appearances underscores how marginal his big-league footprint has been so far this year. The core issue isn't stuff—his strikeout rate per outing implies real swing-and-miss potential—but rather command consistency, which media narratives have correctly identified as the barrier between organizational depth arm and reliable bullpen contributor. As a fourth-year player still cycling between levels, De Los Santos fits the developmental profile the Yankees seem content to manage at arm's length while injuries to higher-priority names (Judge, Volpe) dominate organizational bandwidth. Unless he sharpens his command work in Triple-A and forces a longer major-league audition down the stretch, he'll remain a name that performs better than the noise around him suggests—competent enough to merit the B- grade, invisible enough to the fanbase that sentiment will stay anchored in D- territory regardless.