J.C. Escarra is a Major League Baseball player. Escarra, 29, is a career minor leaguer who called his mother on Saturday after he found out he had made the New York Yankees roster as a backup catcher when the team breaks spring training and begins its 2025 regular season.

JC Escarra, who not that long ago worked as an Uber driver and substitute teacher to pay the bills, is making the Big Leagues. The New York Yankees posted a viral video of the moment that Escarra learned he was making the team.

J.C. Escarra, a Hialeah, Florida, native that relied on Uber and substitute teaching to fund his time in the New York Yankees minor leagues, found out March 23 that he officially made the big leagues.