{"id":79842,"date":"2024-07-12T13:37:19","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T17:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=79842"},"modified":"2024-07-12T13:41:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T17:41:20","slug":"jorbit-vivas-promoted-yankees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/07\/12\/jorbit-vivas-promoted-yankees\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees to Promote Exciting Infield Prospect, Placing J.D. Davis on IL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Yankees are promoting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=vivas-001jor&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-12_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jorbit Vivas<\/a> to the major league roster, according to SNY MLB Insider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=martin018and&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-12_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andy Martin<\/a>o. Vivas, 23, is already on the 40-man roster and will be on the 26-man roster. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/davisjd01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-12_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">J.D. Davis<\/a> is being placed on the injured list in the corresponding move. Vivas came to the Yankees with left-handed pitcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=gonzavi02,gonzal013vic&amp;search=Victor+Gonz\u00e1lez&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-12_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Victor Gonzalez<\/a> in an offseason trade that sent infield prospect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=sweene000tre&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-12_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trey Sweeney<\/a> to the Los Angeles Dodgers. Vivas is the No. 15 prospect in the Yankee system according to MLB Pipeline. He has an .823 OPS in 37 games this season with Triple-A Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Yankees are calling up infield prospect Jorbit Vivas, per sources. J.D. Davis will go to the IL.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andy Martino (@martinonyc) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/martinonyc\/status\/1811803952125739117?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 12, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Yankees Calling Up Jorbit Vivas<\/h2>\n<p>Vivas has split time between second base(27 games) and third base (15 games), giving the Yankees flexibility at both positions. He is hitting a robust .258\/.404\/.424 line with the RailRiders. He has five home runs, six doubles, a triple and nine stolen bases. Vivas has strong discipline at the plate with a 18.3 percent strikeout rate and a 17.2 percent walk rate. The left-handed swinger hit 13 home runs, 63 RBI and hit .269\/.381\/.407 across 135 games in Double-A and Triple-A during 2023.<\/p>\n<p>His hand-eye coordination and quick, compact left-handed stroke allow Vivas to make consistent contact against all types of pitches all over the zone. He ehanches his on-base ability with a willinginess to draw walks and a knack for getting hit by pitches.<\/p>\n<p>Yankees second baseman have been playing decent with a collective .224\/.296\/.336 line. Most of the work at second base has come from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/t\/torregl01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-12_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gleyber Torres<\/a>, who began the season on a cold streak then turned it around in May\/June but fell<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/07\/08\/yankees-woes-continue-near-deadline\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"> back to inconsistency<\/a> in July. Third base shares a similar .236\/.297\/.314 line between the combination of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bertijo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-12_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jon Berti<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/cabreos01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-12_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oswaldo Cabrera<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/l\/lemahdj01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-12_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DJ LeMahieu<\/a>. Vivas should get the opportunity to play rountinely between Torres and LeMahieu, who are the regular starters at those positions.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo: \u00a9 Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Yankees are promoting Jorbit Vivas to the major league roster, according to SNY MLB Insider Andy Martino. Vivas, 23, is already on the 40-man roster and will be on the 26-man roster. J.D. Davis is being placed on the injured list in the corresponding move. Vivas came to the Yankees with left-handed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3686,"featured_media":79847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1071,35],"tags":[696,1057,6263,4956,28617,5927],"class_list":["post-79842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-yankees","category-mlb","category-news","tag-dj-lemahieu","tag-gleyber-torres","tag-jd-davis","tag-jon-berti","tag-jorbit-vivas","tag-oswaldo-cabrera"],"modified_by":"Matt Graves","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3686"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}