{"id":594133,"date":"2026-02-26T14:34:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T14:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/594133\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T14:34:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T14:34:18","slug":"amed-rosario-could-be-key-to-salvaging-jasson-dominguezs-yankees-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/594133\/","title":{"rendered":"Amed Rosario could be key to salvaging Jasson Dominguez&#8217;s Yankees future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA \u2014 The worst thing that ever happened to Jasson Dom\u00ednguez was being nicknamed \u201cThe Martian.\u201d The best might turn out being teammates with Amed Rosario.<\/p>\n<p>There is a \u201cvery good player\u201d potential in Dom\u00ednguez. An All-Star Game or two, 20-20 player potential. But probably not \u201cThe Martian.\u201d That nickname, though, and the heady comparisons that came when the Yankees gave him almost all of their international pool money in 2019 formed <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/09\/04\/how-yankees-prospect-jasson-dominguez-earned-nickname-the-martian\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an otherworldly expectation<\/a> only heightened when he homered in his first MLB at-bat in 2023 off Cooperstown-bound Justin Verlander.<\/p>\n<p>Less than two weeks later, Dom\u00ednguez needed Tommy John surgery. That initiated a phase of disrupted development, jagged play, hints of an upside and revelations of problems in the field and batting from the right side that culminated in his going from starter to mainly a bench piece over last season\u2019s final two months.<\/p>\n<p>That coincides with last July\u2019s arrival of Rosario in a trade from Washington. He brought a needed righty bat who hit lefties, versatility and enthusiasm. For Dom\u00ednguez, he brought much more. Because who could understand Dom\u00ednguez\u2019s descent better? After all, Rosario was the can\u2019t-miss-being-a-superstar prospect in New York \u2026 who did miss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA \u2014 The worst thing that ever happened to Jasson Dom\u00ednguez was being nicknamed \u201cThe Martian.\u201d The best&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2290],"tags":[1348,5,3289,4,62,185,430,428,151],"class_list":{"0":"post-594133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-amed-rosario","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-jasson-dominguez","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-new-york-yankees","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-sports-columnists","15":"tag-sports-plus","16":"tag-spring-training"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116137431236966313","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}