The Yankees have learned this offseason that prospect Yoendrys Gomez was given the medical clearance to receive a fourth option, The Post has learned.

This is not a minor issue (no pun intended) for the Yankees.

Gomez, one of their better pitching prospects, had exhausted his standard three options last season.

Thus, without alteration, he would have either had to stay on the Yankees’ major league roster all season in 2024 or be subjected to waivers to get him back to the minors.

There are stipulations for injury, however, that allow a team to acquire a fourth option, as — for example — the Yankees once received with Dellin Betances.

Gomez fell within these parameters.

Without that exemption, the Yankees would have a situation like the one they face this year with Oswald Peraza.

His three options have been exhausted, so the Yankees have to keep the infielder on the 26-man roster (barring injury), trade him or — to get him back to the minors — they would have to subject him to waivers, on which he almost certainly would be claimed by another team.

That Gomez has the fourth option will allow the Yankees — if they need — to call him up as many as five times in the 2024 season.

He essentially could fill a role similar to that in 2023 of Jhony Brito and Randy Vasquez, who moved up and down as the Yankees needed.

Those two plus Michael King and Drew Thorpe were key to the Yankees’ acquisition of Juan Soto; thus, hitting at the team’s pitching depth.

Thus, Gomez’s ability to be used as depth when needed and returned to the minors, if necessary, is valuable to the organization.

Gomez, 24, pitched one game for the Yankees on Sept. 28 last season.

He is the organization’s 23rd-ranked prospect by MLB.com.