{"id":29985,"date":"2025-01-29T10:52:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T10:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=29985"},"modified":"2025-01-29T10:52:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T10:52:41","slug":"yankees-likely-to-start-jasson-dominguez-in-left-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=29985","title":{"rendered":"Yankees Likely To Start Jasson Dominguez In Left Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<header>By Anthony Franco | <time datetime=\"2025-01-28T23:14:03-06:00\">January 28, 2025<\/time> at <time datetime=\"2025-01-28T23:14:03-06:00\">11:14pm CDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<div>\n<p>Yankees manager Aaron Boone appeared on WFAN with Brandon Tierney and Sal Licata this afternoon. He fielded a few questions about the team\u2019s position player mix.<\/p>\n<p>Boone indicated that his starting outfield was likely to comprise\u00a0<strong>Jasson Dom\u00ednguez<\/strong> in left field,\u00a0<strong>Cody Bellinger<\/strong> in center, and <strong>Aaron Judge<\/strong> in right.\u00a0<strong>Trent Grisham<\/strong> is ticketed for a fourth outfield role. The eighth-year skipper suggested he hoped to keep Dom\u00ednguez mostly in left field while using Bellinger a bit more flexibly. He noted that there\u2019ll be days when Judge serves as a designated hitter while\u00a0<strong>Giancarlo Stanton<\/strong> gets a day off. In those instances, Grisham would likely draw into center field with Bellinger kicking over to right.<\/p>\n<p>The most notable aspect is that the Yankees are preparing for Dom\u00ednguez to get everyday run. Owner Hal Steinbrenner made similar comments in an interview with Meredith Marakovitz of the YES Network this afternoon. \u201c<em>I see him as the starting left fielder<\/em>,\u201d Steinbrenner replied when asked about Dom\u00ednguez\u2019s role. \u201c<em>There\u2019ll be a lot of meetings and discussions in Spring Training obviously and we\u2019ll see how he performs and how he feels, but everybody\u2019s very excited about him<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dom\u00ednguez, who turns 22 next month, should be ticketed for his first extended big league audition. He drilled four homers in eight games as a 20-year-old back in 2023. An elbow injury then ended his season and required Tommy John surgery that shelved him into the middle of June. New York seemed reluctant to give Dom\u00ednguez regular run fresh off the injury. He bounced on and off the active roster for the final six weeks of the season, though the Yanks stuck with\u00a0<strong>Alex Verdugo<\/strong> as their everyday player in left field. Dom\u00ednguez got into 18 games and struggled to a .179\/.313\/.304 slash.<\/p>\n<p>The switch-hitting outfielder remains one of the game\u2019s top young talents. Baseball America ranked Dom\u00ednguez as New York\u2019s top prospect and among the sport\u2019s 30 best prospects on their updated Top 100 list. He has been a strong performer in the minors. Dom\u00ednguez has a .253\/.360\/.430 line across parts of three Double-A seasons and carries a huge .325\/.391\/.495 mark in 230 plate appearances with Triple-A Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre.<\/p>\n<p>Boone added that with the current roster makeup, he views <strong>Jazz Chisholm Jr.<\/strong> as the starter at second base. He named <strong>DJ LeMahieu<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Oswaldo Cabrera<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Oswald Peraza<\/strong> as players who could battle for playing time at third base. New York has been linked to free agents\u00a0<strong>Jorge Polanco<\/strong> and <strong>Brendan Rodgers<\/strong>, so there\u2019s still a chance for an acquisition to push Chisholm back to the hot corner.<\/p>\n<p>Chisholm has only started two games at second base since 2022. He played there regularly with the Marlins early in his career before moving to center field. Miami brought him back into the infield shortly before last summer\u2019s deadline in a thinly veiled effort to expand his versatility to trade partners.<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees acquired him and installed him at third base in deference to <strong>Gleyber Torres<\/strong>. Chisholm played his first 400 career innings at the hot corner in the Bronx. Statcast graded him highly in that sample, though Defensive Runs Saved had him slightly below average. Both metrics have given Chisholm plus grades for his second base work. He has a little more than 1300 career innings at the position, most of which came between 2021-22.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p>View Comments (13)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top prospect Jasson Dom\u00ednguez is the favorite to start in left field for the Yankees. 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