It was honestly only a matter of time.<\/p>\n
Late Friday afternoon, the Yankees optioned former super-prospect Jasson Dom\u00ednguez to Triple-A Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre, among a flurry of roster moves. Once the Yankees signed Randal Grichuk as their fourth outfielder this move seemed inevitable. Even before that, it seemed unlikely El Marciano would start the season in the majors, given the Yanks\u2019 need for a right-handed hitting outfielder and Jasson\u2019s struggles from that side of the plate.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s not the only player being moved out as Opening Day nears. Kenedy Corona, who had himself a nice camp with a couple home runs and a keen eye at the plate, is headed to minor league camp, along with a couple other folks, and a couple others join Dom\u00ednguez heading to Triple-A.<\/p>\n
But the story here is obviously The Martian. To his credit, this is no indictment of his spring. He\u2019s been a monster at the plate and, given the lack of Discourse About His Defense on social media, my impression is he hasn\u2019t been a disaster in left field.<\/p>\n
This comes down to a roster crunch and, honestly, the move to Triple-A might be best for Jasson. The Yanks needed a fourth outfielder who could hit right-handed pitching, which he\u2019s been unable to do. And even if he made the team to start the season, it doesn\u2019t do a single thing for his development to play sporadically for the Yankees.<\/p>\n
This is still only his age-23 season and he\u2019s lost basically two full seasons of development and reps. First, COVID-19 wiped out the 2020 minor league season, then he missed most of 2024 after undergoing Tommy John surgery with an internal bracing on his right elbow in September 2023.<\/p>\n
Factoring all that in, Dom\u00ednguez, despite seemingly having been around forever, has a grand total of 759 plate appearances above Double-A. Sitting on the Yankee bench seems highly unlikely to help him And, given the way injuries always rear their ugly heads, it\u2019s still very probable we\u2019ll see Jasson in the Bronx at some point in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was honestly only a matter of time. Late Friday afternoon, the Yankees optioned former super-prospect Jasson Dom\u00ednguez…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2376],"tags":[5,4,1690,62,2548,2547,142,66170,4675,43602,3881],"class_list":["post-634358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-yankees","tag-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkyankees","tag-yankees","tag-yankees-prospects","tag-yankees-roster","tag-yankees-spring-training","tag-yankees-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116264003733134260","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634358","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=634358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}