The trade deadline came and went on Tuesday without the Yankees addressing their left field issue that has plagued them for most of the season.

The potential trade candidates ranged from rentals like the Cubs’ Cody Bellinger and the Rockies’ Randal Grichuk to a longer-term play such as the Cardinals’ Dylan Carlson.

Bellinger and Carlson stayed put while Grichuk went to the Angels without GM Brian Cashman calling about him, The Post’s Jon Heyman reported.

For now, that leaves the Yankees sticking with a combination of Jake Bauers, Isiah Kiner-Falefa and Billy McKinney in left field. Each have made quality contributions at times, with Kiner-Falefa excelling in a utility role, but the Yankees have been missing an everyday consistency at the position.

Entering Thursday, they had started nine different players in left field who had combined for a 0.5 fWAR, which ranked 26th in the majors. Yankees left fielders had a slash line of .227/.299/.381, while defensively they also ranked 25th with minus-six Outs Above Average, per Baseball Savant.

“It’s been [a position] we’ve tried to upgrade,” Cashman said Tuesday after the deadline passed. “Getting your hands on it is the more challenging aspect of it. What’s been available from the winter time with the decisions we made, within the budgets that we had — this is our highest payroll we’ve had — that’s what we had to show for it.”

But twice in his post-deadline press conference, Cashman brought up an interesting name that could help, possibly as soon as the final two months of this season but certainly next season as well: Everson Pereira.

The 22-year-old outfielder, ranked the Yankees’ No. 5 prospect by Baseball America, is currently raking at Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre after being promoted there from Double-A Somerset last month. In his first 20 games with the RailRiders entering Thursday, Pereira was hitting .337 with a .963 OPS, five home runs, 25 RBIs and 26 strikeouts.

“The power is what sticks out,” SWB hitting coach Trevor Amicone said Thursday in a phone interview. “The consistent ability to get the barrel to the ball and put it on a line somewhere is the thing that catches people’s attention. But he’s a complete hitter. As the approach becomes more polished, the strikeouts are going to go down. It’s not something that is an innate issue with him.”

Pereira, who is already on the 40-man roster, can play all three outfield spots, but has started most often in center and left. That makes him a candidate to possibly find a home with the Yankees next year, with left field still open and center fielder Harrison Bader set to become a free agent.

But could Pereira possibly arrive in The Bronx before 2024?

“There’s guys trying to make a name for themselves that have prospect value, and at the same time they’re hoping to get their chance to prove it at this level, whether it’s a Pereira for instance,” Cashman said. “So we’ll see.”

The Yankees signed Pereira out of Venezuela for $1.5 million in 2017, when he was one of the top prospects in the international signing period. He has dealt with various injuries that have slowed his path some, as did the pandemic that wiped out the 2020 minor league season. That was also when Amicone, previously a roving hitting coach in the organization, first started working with Pereira remotely.

Later in 2020, the Yankees held an instructional camp in the Dominican Republic for many of their young international players, including Pereira. They were working on a drill focused on swing decisions — valuable for a prospect that was known for having high chase rates — that Pereira was not taking as seriously as he could have, which Amicone said was not atypical for a 19-year-old at the time.

“I remember stopping the drill and walking up to him and saying, ‘Look, here’s where you are. Here’s the big leagues. All this space in between is your ability to make better swing decisions,’” Amicone said.

They restarted the drill and Pereira was much more focused.

Then, during Pereira’s first game at Triple-A on July 4, he went 2-for-5 with a home run in his first plate appearance. After one of Pereira’s at-bats, Amicone sat with him in the dugout and told him it was “amazing how far you’ve come with your swing decisions and plate discipline.”

“His immediate response was, ‘Yeah, Papi. Between me and the big leagues is swing decisions. Gotta keep working,’” Amicone said. “So it was really a chills moment as a coach. But he still feels that way. He still feels there is room for him to improve that aspect of his game. I think that’s the thing that for me makes him exciting, is that he’s not satisfied with where he’s at. He’s not satisfied with the results he’s gotten over the first month. He knows that there’s plenty of underlying metrics that he wants to improve on that are good for this level.

“But he’s not really all that interested in being a really good Triple-A hitter. He is focused on being the best big league hitter he can become.”

That plate discipline is where Amicone said Pereira has made the biggest strides since 2020, even if he has still struck out in 28.8 percent of his 277 plate appearances this season between Double-A and Triple-A.

But Pereira’s advanced approach at the plate has impressed those around him, especially for a 22-year-old.

“The work that he does to prepare himself every day for the type of pitcher that we are facing is something that’s surprised me here,” Amicone said. “His ability to match his swing and his approach to the pitch shapes that we’re facing that day is something that you typically only see from guys at this level who have spent a lot of time in the big leagues. So there’s no question — and some of those guys that we have on the team have made that comment, multiple times, that he is incredibly advanced with that type of thing for somebody his age.”

So far at Triple-A, Pereira is chasing “significantly less,” Amcione said, forcing pitchers to challenge him in the zone, for which he is making them pay.

“But that’s all part of the game,” Amicone said. “They will eventually adjust to him and how he adjusts to that adjustment is going to be what determines the level of contribution he’s capable of making long-term.”

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Luis Severino will start for the Yankees Friday night against the Astros, which wasn’t always a given after his last start on Sunday against the Orioles. There was the potential for him to lose his rotation spot after posting an 11.22 ERA in five July starts, but he was also a candidate to be traded on the last year of his contract.

“I knew I was going to pitch. I was going to start. I didn’t know if it was going to be here or somewhere else,” Severino said Wednesday. “But I think everybody was waiting to see what happened at the trade deadline. But I’m really happy that I can start for the New York Yankees again.”

Some have asked whether Severino could use a stint in the minors, like Alek Manoah did with the Blue Jays, to work out his issues in a low-stress environment. But, for one, unlike Manoah, Severino would have to consent to being sent down (because he has more than five years of major league service time), and second, the right-hander says that has never been discussed with him.

“The thing is, the stuff is there,” Severino said. “It’s not like I’m walking 10 guys every start. The stuff is there. I’m just missing my spots. … But if you want to be good, you have to be like Gerrit Cole. You have to grind through those at-bats and try to get better.”

After a tough first few months of the season at Double-A Somerset, Jasson Dominguez just finished off a strong July. The Yankees’ top outfield prospect, who is still just 20 years old, hit .297 with a .778 OPS in 24 games in July.

And yet Dominguez may not have even had the best month of any hitter on his team. Tyler Hardman, a 24-year-old third baseman, was named the Eastern League Player of the Month after hitting 10 home runs in 21 games with a .968 OPS. Entering Thursday, his 26 home runs on the season led all of Double-A.