Yankees rookie outfielder Jasson Domínguez underwent successful surgery to repair the UCL in his right elbow this morning, the team announced. New York announced the procedure as both a Tommy John surgery and an internal brace repair.
The club announced last week that Domínguez would go under the knife, though the extent of the procedure wasn’t entirely clear until the operation began. The Yankees indicated last week that Domínguez was expected to miss 9-10 months in either event. They repeated that timeline in today’s announcement.
It’s likely the 20-year-old will be back around next summer’s All-Star Break. Domínguez will surely open next season on the 60-day injured list, where he’ll be paid at the MLB minimum rate and collect big league service time. Whether he’ll remain on the major league roster once he is activated remains to be seen.
Domínguez was attempting to stake a claim to an Opening Day outfield spot this month. The top prospect got into eight games, collecting eight hits (including four homers) in 33 trips to the plate. It was a strong first foot forward that was unfortunately cut short when he was diagnosed with the UCL tear on September 10.
The Yankees could look for two starting outfielders this winter. Aaron Judge is obviously locked into one spot, likely right field. 22-year-old Everson Pereira has started slowly since being called up for the first time at the start of the month. Current left fielder Oswaldo Cabrera has hit just .216/.285/.314 across 285 trips to the dish. Isiah Kiner-Falefa will be a free agent. Estevan Florial has gotten the bulk of the center field playing time since Domínguez’s injury, but the out-of-options former top prospect isn’t a lock to hold his 40-man roster spot all offseason.
> New York announced the procedure
> as both a Tommy John surgery
> and an internal brace repair.
Why get one when you can get both?
Good luck with your new Tommy brace, Jasson!
No worries, he’s the Martian, he’ll heal perfectly, and quickly! Expect him to be back ready, sometime after the All-Star break.
Apparently the surgery was so successful that he’s contemplating pitching.
I expect Martian to actually start hitting as DH in AAA around mid April which 7 months which is plenty of time as long as he not throwing. He will be a at full strength ready for callup to the big dance at Allstar break. At a minimum he DH sending Stanton to the bench or in CF.
“while we were in there we also did a gastric bypass. you’re welcome!”
A shame this young man was caught up as collateral damage, but the Baseball Gods just cannot abide a team hitting 12 young men on the other side while taking merely two of their own over the course of a season.
Why gods and not just one god? And what if they are actually angels, or maybe even demons?
There’s a pitching god and a hitting god. So obvious.
Monotheism is about control, polytheism is about the individual.
It seem everyone is getting Tommy John Surgery nowadays. Must be the cool and fashionable thing to do. I’ll never understand these fads.
Let’s see who comes back first, him or Ohtani
How the hell does a 20 year old outfielder end up needing Tommy John surgery? What are the Yankees doing?
The trainers should be fired. They turn everyone into glass.
To save time,maybe players should be scheduled for TJ as soon as they are drafted.
Hopefully, it’s not the same doctor as Gregorius’s.
I wonder if Ohtani had both too? Might explain the cryptic wording the other day.
Honestly don’t rush him back to DH him at the mlb level.
He is 20 years old, just rehab his arm fully so that he can throw, give him the remainder of 2024 in AAA and then make him the starting center fielder in 2024.
The Yankees need the dh spot for all their older players (Stanton mostly but also as a breather for judge, Rizzo and lemahieu and Jasson is too young and dynamic to make him a dh at this point.
I beg to differ. If Martian is crushing the ball in April AAA games and Stanton stinking up the joint, you have to call him up as DHing will allow him to get familiar with mlb pitching and experience. I still believe Cashman tells Stanton this winter to prepare yourself as part time player moving forward so he forces Yankees to trade him while waiving his no trade clause. I can see Yankees eating 50% of that contract to move him which puts him at 4/48 for remaining 4 yrs a really high risk reward play for a team needing DH and offense.