MOOSIC, Pa. — First Gary Sanchez went wild. Then a rough start became eventual superstardom for Aaron Judge. Miguel Andujar has shined with his shot, and Gleyber Torres’ debut helmet may as well have been a crown.

The Yankees recently have specialized in transitioning a top position prospect into a capable major leaguer. But they’re not batting 100 percent.

Tyler Wade is now 0-for-2 in major league summonses, the 23-year-old looking lost last year in his 30-game tryout, batting just .155.

This year was supposed to be different, after a standout spring training in which Wade projected as a sort of do-everything speed threat, a better-hitting version of Ronald Torreyes. Aaron Boone raved about him, declaring he had earned not just a roster spot but “plenty of at-bats.”

The season hit, and Wade didn’t. He can explain.

“I had the flu for three weeks and I lost 12 pounds,” Wade, with Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, said this weekend. “That’ll make things difficult. That and a combination of trying to do too much with the sickness — trying to fight through that.”

Wade left an April 6 game with the illness. He got an IV and never went on the disabled list, but the left-handed bat suffered. With just three hits in 35 at-bats (.086), Wade was jettisoned on April 22 as Torres got the call-up and ran with it. Wade’s big-league average now stands at .129 in 43 games without a home run.

Boone called him into his office, delivering news that Wade said the manager cushioned by telling him he just needed to “get my feet wet” in the minors and use it as a springboard back.

“Definitely not what you want,” said Wade, a fourth-round pick in 2013. “You work so hard in the offseason, you have a good spring, you want to help your team as much as you can. But at the end of the day, I wasn’t doing my job and you gotta do your job. I took it more as an opportunity for me to do better.”

An opportunity that has an expiration date, at least in Wade’s head. It’s not a matter of if he gets back, but, “When I get back to the big leagues, it’s gonna be back where I was in spring and gonna help the team win.”

Until recently, Wade’s play hadn’t matched his confidence. In an International League he had torn up last year, Wade was batting .226 in his first 34 games. Manager Bobby Mitchell said the strike zone had “gotten away” from him. But in eight games this month, Wade is slashing .306/.324/.472.

“I was just trying to get back into the rhythm I had in spring,” Wade said. “I found it and I’m ready to go.”

That’s the view from afar, too. Wade is “absolutely” a major league player, said Jared Sandberg, the manager of Triple-A Durham, who saw the utilityman for three games from the opposing dugout last week.

“You can see the tools and the talent,” said Sandberg, who watched Wade play shortstop in two games and left field in another. “Plays outfield, plays shortstop, very athletic, solid arm.”

Another shot will be hard to come by with the Yankees. Wade is capable everywhere — he went through the system as a shortstop and is now a skilled second baseman, third baseman and can man all three outfield spots — but all of his paths are blocked. Clint Frazier is ready if an outfielder goes down, and Brandon Drury waits in the wings for an infield job that was once his. Torreyes has the upper hand on the utility role (a job that already was deemed expendable once, with Torreyes himself recently enduring a minor league stint).

At least Wade has company.

“We all have things we need to work on,” Wade said of the demoted bunch. “We all want to get back to the big leagues. It makes things easier because we’re all motivated to get out of here, to get back to the big leagues.”