It has been a nightmarish season for the New York Yankees.
They are at risk of finishing with their first sub-.500 season since 1992, as they are 71-72 as of Monday afternoon.
A few weeks ago, they decided to call up some prospects and give them the keys to the future of the organization: Jasson Dominguez, Everson Pereira, Anthony Volpe, Austin Wells, Oswald Peraza, Jhonny Brito, Randy Vasquez and other young, promising players are in the lineup or pitching important innings night in and night out at this point.
Of course, the most prominent name on that list is Dominguez, who took the league by storm and became the first player in Yankees history to hit home runs in at least four of his first seven games.
But the Yankees’ injury luck this season has been monumentally bad.
Dominguez is the latest victim of the bad luck, suffering ligament damage in his elbow over the weekend.
He will now require Tommy John surgery, and he expressed his disappointment.
“’It’s definitely very shocking news,’ Jasson Domínguez said through an interpreter. ‘You’re never expecting for this to be the result. Now understanding what happened, we have to look forward and go through it,’” Yankees insider Bryan Hoch tweeted, with quotes from the young star.
“It’s definitely very shocking news,” Jasson Domínguez said through an interpreter. “You’re never expecting for this to be the result. Now understanding what happened, we have to look forward and go through it.”
— Bryan Hoch ⚾️ (@BryanHoch) September 10, 2023
Position players usually don’t have to miss 14-16 months like pitchers do, but as Bryce Harper recently showed us, it can take about six or seven months in a best-case scenario and power can take a bit to fully come back.
It’s crushing news for Yankees fans, as Dominguez will likely miss a portion of the 2024 season even if he gets the surgery now.
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