{"id":633121,"date":"2026-04-27T01:30:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T01:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/633121\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T01:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T01:30:31","slug":"yankees-to-promote-jasson-dominguez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/633121\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees To Promote Jasson Dominguez"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Yankees are calling Jasson Dominguez<\/a> back up to the big leagues, according to reporter Francys Romero<\/a>.\u00a0 The move will be made official prior to tomorrow\u2019s game with the Rangers.<\/p>\n

Dominguez is already on the 40-man roster, and New York already has an opening on its 26-man roster since Luis Gil<\/a> was optioned to Triple-A after his start today.\u00a0 Calling up Dominguez in Gil\u2019s place, however, would leave the Bronx Bombers with only 12 pitchers on their active roster, so it seems more likely that another pitcher will be summoned tomorrow as a fresh arm for the bullpen.<\/p>\n

To balance out the position-player side, it may be that Dominguez\u2019s return is related to the calf injury that has sidelined Giancarlo Stanton<\/a> for the last two games.\u00a0 Stanton left Friday\u2019s game due to tightness in his right calf, and given the slugger\u2019s long history of leg injuries, the Yankees could place Stanton on the 10-day injured list in at least a precautionary move.<\/p>\n

All 23 of Stanton\u2019s appearances this season have been as a designated hitter, so if Stanton is indeed heading to the IL, the Yankees now have the flexibility to rotate multiple players through the DH spot.\u00a0 Dominguez might well take some of those at-bats himself, or he could play in the outfield while any of Aaron Judge<\/a>, Cody Bellinger<\/a>, or Trent Grisham<\/a> are given a partial rest day.<\/p>\n

Dominguez burst into the majors with four homers and a .258\/.303\/.677 slash line over 33 plate appearances when he debuted near the end of the 2023 season.\u00a0 It seemed like \u201cthe Martian\u201d was on his way to living up the hype associated with his status as one of baseball\u2019s top prospects, but he underwent a Tommy John surgery just eight games into his big league tenure.\u00a0 The TJ rehab and an oblique strain limited him to 58 minor league games and 18 MLB games in 2024, and Dominguez then hit .257\/.331\/.388 with 10 home runs over 429 PA for New York in 2025.<\/p>\n

It was a decent but unspectacular first full season for Dominguez, as his offensive numbers translated to a 103 wRC+.\u00a0 He struck out 115 times in his 429 PA, however, and made plenty of hard contact but had trouble consistently keeping the ball in the air.\u00a0 Dominguez\u2019s biggest struggles came on defense, as he had -7 Defensive Runs Saved and -9 Outs Above Average over his 793 innings in left field.<\/p>\n

Dominguez has reduced his strikeout rate to 15.2% over 99 Triple-A plate appearances this year, while hitting .306\/.404\/.471 with three homers for Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre.\u00a0 Still, Dominguez doesn\u2019t have anything left to prove in the minors at this point, as the question is now whether or not he can be a productive big leaguer.<\/p>\n

It certainly isn\u2019t too late for Dominguez given that he is still only 23 years old, but the crowded state of the Yankees\u2019 outfield and Stanton\u2019s presence as the regular DH left the Martian without a 26-man roster spot on Opening Day.\u00a0 The fact that New York re-signed Bellinger last winter was another sign that the club still had reservations about giving Dominguez more regular playing time in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Yankees are calling Jasson Dominguez back up to the big leagues, according to reporter Francys Romero.\u00a0 The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,7307,136434,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-633121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-giancarlo-stanton","11":"tag-jasson-dominguez","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}