The Yankees can add another layer to their late-season youth movement by calling up 20-year-old prospect Jasson Dominguez from Triple-A to play center field in September over slumping starter Harrison Bader, who will file for free agency after the World Series.
Then when Bader was approaching the warning track, he lost the ball in the domed roof and ended up running too far to the right. The baseball wound up banging off the 10-foot-high wall about a foot from the top for an RBI double that made it a 3-0 ballgame, andThis was bad luck for Bader, but the one part of his game that you can always count on didn’t work out this time.
Sure, Dominguez just was promoted from Double-A to Triple-A last week on the day Pereira got his first big-league callup. But already he’s killing it for Scranton/Wilkes-Barre with a .450 average and eight RBI in six games. Dominguez looked great this year in his first big-league spring training hitting .455 with four homers and nine RBI in 22 at-bats over 11 Grapefruit League games, but most of his plate appearances were against fellow minor leaguers.
Maybe, but Peraza was ahead of Volpe on the organizational shortstop depth chart this time a year ago, so he’s the one who received late-season playing time and even a playoff start when the Yankees were fazing out Isiah Kiner-Falefa.They were 62-67 with 33 to go, so keep playing Pereira, who is just 2-for-18 in five games but had all hard-contact outs in Saturday’s 0-for-3.Call up hit-first catching prospect Austin Wells in September to do some catching and play some first base .
Bader will be elsewhere next year and Dominguez probably will be pushing for a big-league starting job at some point, right? Thus, the Yankees might as well unleash the Martian this week.
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