Yankees outfielder Jasson Domínguez is going to miss a lot time with an oblique strain. SNY relayed video on X of manager Aaron Boone discussing the issue, with the skipper saying Domínguez will miss “up to eight weeks” before he can play in games because the strain is “pretty significant.”
It’s yet another unfortunate setback for Domínguez, who arrived in the big leagues with such flair last year. With the Yankees playing out a lost season in 2023, the prospect was brought up as a September call-up, then went on to hit four home runs in his first eight games.
Unfortunately, he then required Tommy John surgery, which ended that exciting debut and put him on track for a challenging 2024. He began the season on the injured list while rehabbing from that surgery and was only reinstated last week. Since the Yankees have a solid big league outfield consisting of Juan Soto, Aaron Judge and Alex Verdugo, with Giancarlo Stanton in the designated hitter slot and Trent Grisham on the bench, Domínguez was optioned to get regular at-bats in Triple-A.
But this past weekend, just a few days after being reinstated from the IL, he was placed on the minor league IL with some side tightness. Now it seems he’s slated for another lengthy injury layoff, with the eight-week timeline set to take him into the middle of August.
It’s a rough blow for the Yankees on a number of fronts. In the short term, the big league outfield is in good shape, as mentioned. But if any of their major league outfielders should suffer an injury, this will leave their outfield depth thin. Everson Pereira, another of the club’s outfield prospects, recently underwent UCL surgery and is out for the year. With Domínguez now out as well, the Yankees don’t have an outfielder on the 40-man roster who could be recalled to cover for someone else’s absence.
In the longer term, it’s obviously less than ideal for a top prospect to lose almost an entire season of development like this. Both Verdugo and Soto are slated for free agency after this season while Grisham will be a non-tender candidate, giving the club little certainty in the outfield going forward apart from Judge. They obviously hope to re-sign Soto but that’s no guarantee and they will need to replace Verdugo and likely Grisham even if they can lure Soto back.
Ideally, Domínguez would be getting regular playing time and convincing the Yankees that he can be a part of their 2025 club, but that will have to be on pause for now. He should still have a few weeks of playing time at the end of the season if things progress as planned from here, but it’s more of the waiting game for Domínguez now.
The Yankees say no, c’mon man.
Here, have 5 pieces of crap for your young guy that may develop to be a stud.
Come on, that’s idiotic and you know it. It’s not MLB The Show.
Who would want a player who plays 8 games, hits 4 HR, then misses the rest of the season after tjs, comes back and right away suffers a serious oblique injury? Yeah, I’d empty the farm for that guy.
Throw in Andujar and Frazier and you got a deal!
Well done.
And Florián too
Dude is comically muscled. I’m not saying he won’t have a career but… I am saying guys with the mass he’s been carrying since he was signed at 16 (allegedly) are soft tissue injuries waiting to happen.
Exactly what Tyler O’Neil is
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He even has an extra “ass” in his first name.
Add Mike Trout to that list. Less mass would help him stay healthy. I remember the days when Trouty would routinely be down 0-2 and would end up with a 3-2 count, fouling off pitch after pitch to find one he could do damage to. Those were the days when Mike Trout was the best hitter in baseball. He used to always maintain a high batting average.
Trout has batted above .280 in every season except this one and last, which have been decimated by injuries. I don’t know if anyone can truthfully say what could make him stay healthy into his 30’s after all he’s accomplished already, It’s so ridiculous when people prognosticate their reasons as to why athletes slow down later in their careers. How would YOU really know? Guys like Nelson Cruz, Eddie Collins, Ellis Burks, etc. flourished in their later seasons, and they all had plenty of muscles. For a guy like Trout, don’t diminish what he’s accomplished because his body is rejecting what it needs to do to play this sport, and don’t play sports physician.
They are going to delay his progress to manipulate his service time
Yes, the Yankees convinced their medical team to induce a badly strained oblique, so the team could keep him from developing. Bold strategy.
(Tin Hat Fans abound here….)
Next the Yankees medical team is going to tear his Achilles to manipulate even more service time
Muahahahahaha!
No they are going to slow walk his recovery and rehab and claim it’s just being careful
The Yankees.
Common sense
Can I offer you a nice Jack Suwinski in this trying time?
Yes please. Shelton seems to be the only one who sees greatness in him.
At least suwinski is a home run (or bust) hitter!
Oh wait he doesn’t hit many
At least he has tattoos that I can’t take my eyes off!
Well, that stinks. On the bright side, his fixed UCL will have more time to heal.
Sucks for the sport. Fans were definitely getting excited at the thought of a Judge/Soto/Alien outfield. Next year!
Can still happen this year as a Sept. call-up. Dominguez is 21 y.o. and will probably heal faster than Judge when he suffered the same injury.
Next to TJ surgery, there seems to be an epidemic of oblique injuries. Probably stemming from the abundance of weight lifting without proper stretching.
I was thinking of that. I don’t remember that being an issue even 10 years ago
The diagnosis are more refined now for the public. It used to be inflammation or tendonitis for everything or mid-section/torso strain/tightness. These things happened back then.
Yankees already have there center fielder of the future in Grisham another amazing acquisition by Cashman
Very silly comment
@Lars MacDonald
Your post seems to be quite silly.
Grisham is 27 years old and currently has 6 hits in 60 at-bats, Old York.
As usual, you add nothing here.
Grisham is nothing more than a 4th outfielder in NY. He plays hard and deserves another opportunity as an everyday OF, but not for the Yankees as they are currently constructed. He’s no one’s idea of a “center fielder of the future.”
Your sarcasm misses the mark “realist”. Dude was brought in as a salary dump to facilitate the Soto trade. He’s actually handy as a defensive caddy and seldom used 4th outfielder. If starter ab’s open up look for the Yankees to scramble to find a more well rounded hitter. Smashing on Cash over Grisham is crazy talk.
Their, not there.
What’s “amazing” is the ignorance of basic English here.
lesterdnightfly, their not asking you for english tips. bet your a real fun guy at parties.
*cough* Spencer jones *cough*
*cough* troll *cough*
deepseamonster32: Perfect.! Thanks for proving my point.
Rough year for that dude.
health is the sixth tool
hoping he’s not another buxton
Buxton is still quite a bit ahead of this guy. You better be hoping he is not another Kevin Maas first.
Interesting but not really relative comparative. Jasson’s MILB OPS is already 100 points ahread of Maas, Kevin made the majors at the age of 25 and flamed out by 28. Jasson is still only 21 and has already shown he can hit MLB pitching.
Except he hasn’t shown that yet. You don’t prove you belong after 30 at bats. He has proven he has a CHANCE to belong since he wasn’t completely ate up in those 30 ABs. But it is still going to take time for him.
And I didn’t mean he and Maas were the exact same player. I was just saying that the quick start doesn’t always last. And Maas flamed out long before three years. He flamed out after his first half season, but they kept him around for a while longer.
buxton was the only toolsy but injury-prone centerfielder i could come up with. despite the injuries buxton is only 30 and has put up 22 WAR. that would be a fine outcome for dominguez but at this stage we yankee fans are dreaming bigger
As a Rockies fan, I can give you the name of David Dahl. Top 50 prospect and made the All Star team in 2019, but was made of glass. Ended up bouncing around the league. I think he is with Philly now.
You mean Tyler Nevin, the Oakland A’s player? Kind of a weird move for them to include a guy in a trade and get nothing back…
Maybe the Yankees need to hire a yoga instructor
@FletcherFanForever69
O’s farm is overrated.
Agreed, but all farms are overrated
Ah yes a trade for 2 major league outfielders in Kyle and hays to one of the most crowded outfields in the sport
It would be like the Phillies trading one of their high caliber pitching prospects for… another pitcher?!?! To get a 7th major league starter
Os farm isn’t overrated. The most overrated farm is far and away the yanks. Os have been churning out studs
Tommy Pham incoming
… right slap to Joc’s face!
JD appears to be soft as butter in a warm summer day in NYC.
“hit four home runs in his first eight games”
I’m sure the Yankees can find an outfielder
Usually find them on the grass.
And the grass is legal now.
He’ll be back just in time to bump Rizzo off the post season roster.
So is Jasson accruing MLB service time since he was put on the 40 man right before this new injury?
“Accruing MLB service time”…I’m under the impression the Dominguez injury occurred after he was optioned to AAA, so I don’t see how he’d be accruing Major League service time.
He was already optioned. More 4D chess by Cashman.
I’m a Red Sox and even I don’t think the Yankees are playing service time games here…
Dude is clearly just injured.
The injury to Jasson sucks but it’s the infield that’s the problem. Do Yankees have any chance at Rosario or bringing back Gio.
Sure, Eddie Rosario is available, cheap.
They’ll pick up something like that. Yankees always add competent veteran bats.
Not ideal but more so from a depth perspective now. He’ll be back in August. Give him a couple weeks tune up in AAA. September call up. Available for the postseason.
They need to pick up an infield bat and strengthen the bullpen.
Damn, I really like this kid. Can’t wait to see him shine in the show again.
“again”?
Bright like a diamond during his sip of coffee. I’ve been following him for years, so I may be biased.
Like a young Kevin Maas.
33 plate appearances in the Major Leagues.
You just need one app to show if you have that “thing” needed to be a great player and Jasson have that. He looked like he belongs and showed it.El period
Bring Arias for Torres for good and Soto cool off, Yankees gets beating by Boston and Baltimore,,,uff mean something not good
I wonder who is going to win the battle for CF in the future, Jones or Spencer (unless judge moves out of RF but that’s a big IF)
Things gets even more complicated if verdugo stays longer
Typo jasson
They should not re sign Verdugo, they need to let him go
He is going to be a star
If he can healthy
I think he will be OK in the future
Of course look at mike trout who rarely plays these days
Are you serious ?
I never seen so many off the wall comments on an injury before
We’re all doctors or play one on TV. Have we seen the “he should just get TJS over with” guys yet?
So Everson had UCL surgery as well? What’s up with Yankee outfielders?
Maybe that’s more common than I think, I guess.
Baltimore should be saying no.
OK…
Gunner, Cowser, and Westburg
Talented as he is, Dominguez is beginning to look like this decade’s Greg Bird.
Alex Verdugo’s chances of being re-signed by the Yankees have risen considerably this week,
Greg is doing very well in the Mexican league
The yanks should sign him to replace rizzo
Oh? Did their owner walk back his comment on not wanting to spend 300 million or did Soto say he has no intention on staying in the Bronx?
Verdugo is not staying in New York unless he accepts a qualifying offer.
That makes no sense at all
Giancarlo Stanton injury vibes.