Giants trade Wandy Peralta to Yankees, acquire lefthanded hitting outfielder

The Giants added another left-handed hitting outfielder to the club Tuesday, but a trade with the Yankees that brought Mike Tauchman to San Francisco and sent reliever Wandy Peralta to New York is unrelated to Mike Yastrzemski’s recent oblique injury.

Giants manager Gabe Kapler said the trade was not a reactionary move to an injury that’s expected to sideline Yastrzemski for the next few days and is instead a “long-term” play for the organization, which values Tauchman’s plate discipline and ability to play all three outfield positions.

“(Yankees manager Aaron Boone) noted that (Tauchman) really stands out in center and left and we also discussed his ability to look over the baseball, to make good swing decisions, to really grind in the batter’s box and those were the things we identified in Mike that definitely led to this acquisition,” Kapler said.

Aside from trading Peralta, one of the more trusted left-handers in a bullpen filled with southpaws, the Giants also sent a player to be named later to the Yankees to complete the deal.

Tauchman, 30, enjoyed the best season of his career in 2019 when he hit .277 with 13 home runs and an .865 OPS for the Yankees but regressed in 2020 and has only had three hits in 14 at-bats in a crowded New York outfield this year.

“Tauchman is a guy we’ve had longstanding interest in, and we talked to (the Yankees) about him this offseason and this spring,” Giants president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi said.