{"id":634376,"date":"2026-03-20T23:18:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T23:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/634376\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T23:18:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T23:18:52","slug":"yankees-option-jasson-dominguez-mlb-trade-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/634376\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees Option Jasson Dom\u00ednguez – MLB Trade Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Yankees announced a series of camp cuts today, most notably optioning outfielder Jasson Dom\u00ednguez<\/a> to Triple-A Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre. Relievers\u00a0Kervin Castro<\/a> and\u00a0Yerry De los Santos<\/a> were also optioned out.<\/p>\n

Dom\u00ednguez opening the season in the minors has been the expectation since camp began. The Yankees retained Cody Bellinger<\/a> and\u00a0Trent Grisham<\/a> in free agency. Bellinger signed a five-year deal, while Grisham accepted a qualifying offer. They\u2019re alongside\u00a0Aaron Judge<\/a> in what is probably the best outfield in the sport.\u00a0Giancarlo Stanton<\/a> is healthy and opening the season at designated hitter, while the Yanks will run a\u00a0Ben Rice<\/a>\/Paul Goldschmidt<\/a> platoon at first base.<\/p>\n

There simply wasn\u2019t a path to regular playing time for Dom\u00ednguez. The Yankees are looking for a right-handed bench bat who can platoon with Grisham. Bellinger will primarily play the corners against righty pitching but can slide to center field in Grisham\u2019s place against southpaws.<\/p>\n

The switch-hitting Dom\u00ednguez isn\u2019t suited for that role. He\u2019s much better from the left side, for one, and it\u2019s hardly ideal for his development to work as a short-side platoon bat. Non-roster invitee Randal Grichuk<\/a> seems the favorite for the last bench spot based on his track record against lefty pitching, even if he hasn\u2019t hit in a minuscule spring sample.<\/p>\n

The demotion certainly isn\u2019t in response to Dom\u00ednguez\u2019s camp performance. He did all he could to try to win a job, batting .325 with three homers and two doubles in 45 plate appearances. He\u2019ll get everyday playing time in Triple-A and will very likely be the first one up if Stanton or any of the regular outfielders suffers an injury.<\/p>\n

Spencer Jones<\/a> is the only other outfielder on the 40-man roster. He\u2019s a good prospect with monster power but struck out at a 35% clip in the minors last season. Dom\u00ednguez was a league average hitter in the big leagues (.257\/.331\/.388 over 429 plate appearances) and is a little more than two years younger.<\/p>\n

It remains to be seen whether the move will have meaningful service time implications. Dom\u00ednguez has one year and 130 days of MLB time. He only needs to be on the big league roster for 42 days this year to surpass the two-year threshold and remain on track for free agency after the 2030 season. It seems likely he\u2019ll get there given Stanton\u2019s injury history, in particular.<\/p>\n

There may be a less impactful but more immediate service implication, however. If he logged a full service year this season, Dom\u00ednguez would have been right on the border of the usual Super Two cutoff for early arbitration next winter. Unless he\u2019s recalled by the middle of April, he\u2019s unlikely to have enough time to qualify as a Super Two. That\u2019d keep his 2027 salary close to the league minimum. This will be Dom\u00ednguez\u2019s second of three option seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Yankees announced a series of camp cuts today, most notably optioning outfielder Jasson Dom\u00ednguez to Triple-A Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,3289,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-634376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-jasson-dominguez","10":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116264066294079552","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634376","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=634376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}