Dom\u00ednguez was first unable to outperform Alex Verdugo in 2024 and then Grisham last year, as Grisham emerged as an offensive force.<\/p>\n
And Jones has shown flashes of phenomenal power in the minors, but not the consistency to warrant a call-up to The Bronx.<\/p>\n
Still, they have time to make an impression on the organization \u2014 and Aaron Boone \u2014 especially this weekend with an inexperienced lineup because of back-to-back games on the opposite side of the state and other players absent due to the WBC.<\/p>\n
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Yankees outfielder Jasson Dominguez rounds the bases after hitting a home run earlier in spring training. Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images<\/p>\n
Boone said Saturday there have been encouraging signs from both Dom\u00ednguez and Jones.<\/p>\n
Of Jones, the manager said, \u201cHe\u2019s done a nice job. He\u2019s worked really hard this winter to make adjustments to try to hone his craft and had pretty good results here the first few weeks of games.\u201d<\/p>\n
He had a hard-hit single and stole second in the second inning Saturday.<\/p>\n
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Yankees outfielder Spencer Jones looks on from from the dugout earlier in spring training. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n
Still, the 6-foot-7 Jones is coming off a season in which he whiffed 179 times in 506 plate appearances, an issue the Yankees remain hopeful will dissipate with more experience.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose are the challenges of being a big guy,\u2019\u2019 Boone said. \u201cIt\u2019s a hard thing to figure out, but if you can do it, [that size is] a massive advantage.\u201d<\/p>\n
Judge is the best example of that, clearly. He turned 25 the year he set the rookie home run record in 2017.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Jones, the team\u2019s first-round pick out of Vanderbilt in 2022, turns 25 in May.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ve just got to figure out your mechanics,\u2019\u2019 Boone said of super-sized players. \u201cIt\u2019s a challenging thing to do when you\u2019re really big, but once you do, you have an advantage.\u201d<\/p>\n
That\u2019s not what\u2019s kept Dom\u00ednguez back.<\/p>\n
The switch-hitter has not blossomed from the right side yet \u2014 which helped lead to the Grichuk signing \u2014 and remains a work in progress in the outfield.<\/p>\n
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After Boone criticized some of his decision-making in the outfield Saturday, Dom\u00ednguez threw out Washington\u2019s Jos\u00e9 Tena, who was trying to stretch a single into a double in the third.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s not enough to unseat any of the starters \u2014 or Giancarlo Stanton at DH \u2014 but Boone said the situation hasn\u2019t impacted Dom\u00ednguez\u2019s work.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the things I appreciate about Jasson is how consistent a person he is,\u2019\u2019 Boone said. \u201cHe\u2019s the same all the time. He has a good way about him. I\u2019m not surprised, but I also think he continues to be a better pro. He\u2019s done a good job.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. \u2014 There was a time when the Yankees might have envisioned a 2026 Yankee…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2376],"tags":[5,3289,4,1690,62,2548,2547,185,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-613122","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-yankees","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-jasson-dominguez","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-yankees","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkyankees","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116192912016873613","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613122","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=613122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}