Dominguez made his Triple-A debut this week at the age of 20 years and 196 days.
At the age of 20 years and 196 days, Dominguez made his Triple-A debut on Tuesday.
Though it’s hard to imagine Dominguez’s late-season cameo at Triple-A turning into a path to the Yankees by the end of this year, it puts 2024 very much in play. It was only last year that Anthony Volpeat the beginning of September, providing a springboard for him to win the shortstop job in spring training and start the season in the big leagues.
“I think that’s the most impressive part about him being 20 years old, is whether he goes 0-for-3 with three strikeouts or 3-for-4 with two doubles and a home run, he has a routine that is specialized to the objectives he has to get better at. It’s so impressive how he comes into the cage every day.”
Yankees hitting coordinator Joe Migliaccio credits Dominguez’s improvement at the plate to making better decisions on which pitches to swing at.According to Migliaccio, in Dominguez’s first season in Single-A , he missed on 25 percent of the pitches he swung at in the strike zone, which was higher than league average. At Double-A this season, that number had decreased to 18 percent.
“There’s this common misconception — whether it’s about Yankee development, or baseball development in general — that we teach this swing, whether it’s just home run or strikeout and there’s nowhere in between,” Migliaccio said. “And that [is] the furthest thing from the truth. The last thing we want to do is really sacrifice contact to increase contact quality. There’s give and take there.
Dominguez was difficult to manage for opponents if he got on base at Somerset, where he stole 37 bases in 44 attempts this season.“So, yeah, you kind of sit back and you go, ‘Man, what he’s doing is special.’ But then about 10 seconds later, you better flip the switch and realize, ‘Hey, we’ve still got work to do. This is the last month of the season, we need to keep pushing forward,’ and then you get back into the, ‘OK, let’s get back to work mode.
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