{"id":749660,"date":"2026-07-12T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/749660\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T10:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T10:00:14","slug":"yankees-news-top-prospect-george-lombard-jr-could-be-nearing-call-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/749660\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees news: Top prospect George Lombard Jr. could be nearing call-up"},"content":{"rendered":"

CBS Sports | Dayn Perry<\/a>: We noted yesterday that Brian Cashman was taking a close look at the Yankees\u2019 catching situation, the club\u2019s catchers putting in an absolutely putrid offensive performance in 2026. New York is reportedly scouting Twins backstop Ryan Jeffers, the 29-year-old impending free agent having a career year, posting a .294\/.408\/.540 slash line. Jeffers recently returned from a hamate bone injury, and though teams are usually loath to add a new player to their catcher\u2019s room midseason, the Yankees might just be the kind of team that\u2019s desperate enough to change things up behind the plate.<\/p>\n

New York Daily News | Gary Phillips<\/a>: The Yankees\u2019 top prospect, George Lombard Jr., is nearing a return from a hand injury. If Yankee brass is to be believed, he also could be nearing a call-up to the majors. \u201cHe\u2019s certainly close to pushing himself into the mix, for sure,\u201d Aaron Boone said Friday. \u201cI\u2019ve loved his trajectory, his development. This year, he\u2019s continued to get better.\u201d The 21-year-old struggled upon promotion to Triple-A this year, but was heating up before getting hurt, posting a .923 OPS in his 27 most recent games.<\/p>\n

New York Post | Greg Joyce<\/a>: Aaron Boone challenged Jasson Dom\u00ednguez earlier this week. \u201cI expect more,\u201d Boone said. \u201cI feel like really all year he\u2019s giving solid at-bats every day, but hasn\u2019t had that breakthrough yet. His on-base percentage should not be whatever it is (.276). He\u2019s so much more than that.\u201d Dom\u00ednguez responded well on Friday night in Washington D.C., hitting a home run from the left side and a single from the right. In spite of a serious of injuries that have impacted his development the last few years, offensive expectations for Dom\u00ednguez are high. Dom\u00ednguez\u2019s batting line has mostly hovered around average in the majors, with the Yankees surely hoping for a bit more from his talented, switch-hitting bat.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d also be remiss if I didn\u2019t acknowledge all the excellent work that was done here yesterday regarding the Yankees\u2019 first day of MLB Draft activity! Here\u2019s the linked rundown from PSA:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBS Sports | Dayn Perry: We noted yesterday that Brian Cashman was taking a close look at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2376],"tags":[5,4,1690,62,2548,2547,142,42069,3881],"class_list":["post-749660","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-link-roundup","tag-yankees-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116906427893367962","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749660","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=749660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}