Growing Everything But The Payroll: The Official 2025 New York Yankees Season Thread

[King P]

If Tucker goes for 10 years 350 mil and it's not with us, throw this organization in the dumpster

 

[holidayinn21]

"Let him play winter ball"
"Let him leadoff"
"Let him get reps"

Meanwhile...........

 

[Remote]

"Let him play winter ball"
"Let him leadoff"
"Let him get reps"

Meanwhile...........

Dominguez has almost 500 career ABs at the Major League level.

It hasn’t been consistent. But he’s approaching a make-or-break moment for his career.

Here’s the bad news: usually the best prospects absolutely MASH in the Minors, even if they struggle early in their Major League careers.

But Jasson posted a respectable .816 OPS in the minors. Not exactly lighting the world on fire. It’s not like he was even on Brandon Wood’s level where you could give him a really long leash.

As best I can tell so far, the only redeeming qualities for Jasson Dominguez are
1) high exit velocity
2) he’s a switch hitter

But he doesn’t hit for average.
His exit velocity hasn’t translated to HRs.
He isn’t a good defender.

If the Yankees really feel he needs to play every day, then what the hell is he doing in the Bronx? Send him to AAA. Stashing him on the bench seems like they’re trying to hide his flaws or lack of development to other teams.

 

[holidayinn21]

Dominguez has almost 500 career ABs at the Major League level.

It hasn’t been consistent. But he’s approaching a make-or-break moment for his career.

Here’s the bad news: usually the best prospects absolutely MASH in the Minors, even if they struggle early in their Major League careers.

But Jasson posted a respectable .816 OPS in the minors. Not exactly lighting the world on fire. It’s not like he was even on Brandon Wood’s level where you could give him a really long leash.

As best I can tell so far, the only redeeming qualities for Jasson Dominguez are
1) high exit velocity
2) he’s a switch hitter

But he doesn’t hit for average.
His exit velocity hasn’t translated to HRs.
He isn’t a good defender.

If the Yankees really feel he needs to play every day, then what the hell is he doing in the Bronx? Send him to AAA. Stashing him on the bench seems like they’re trying to hide his flaws or lack of development to other teams.

As much as people don't want to admit it, he's a project, and a few games of winter ball isn't gonna change that. Hell, he's DH'd a few games already, and he's been taken out for defensive purposes, so obviously the coaches are seeing the same thing the Yankees are.

If he's still on the team come February, then he needs to really earn his spot on the team

 

[King P]

Tucker being the fallback option is

Heyman is never beating the Boras client allegations

 

[Grifter]

Hire him Cash. Can't do worse than what we got.

 

[Remote]

Hire him Cash. Can't do worse than what we got.

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

I’m not sure if it’s as bad as passing on Harper & Machado or passing on Olson/Freeman & Seager, but it’s right up there. This directly cost them the pennant along with passing on Verlander. They went 0-2 against Verlander in a 7 game series in 2017 and went 1-3 against Cole & Verlander in a 6 game series in 2019. It probably cost them the east in 2018 as well since they’d thrown traded for Sonny gray instead & we all saw how bad he was in his home starts.