We'll See The Dominguez-jones Show Soon, But For Now We Wait

The Yankees made another round of cuts Tuesday, and if you missed it or live under a rock, Spencer Jones is heading back to minor league camp while Everson Pereira gets sent to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. No surprises here, but let’s talk about what this really means.

Jones has been one of the most exciting prospects in the Yankees’ system—built like Aaron Judge, oozing raw power, and this spring, he showed exactly why people are hyped. A .300/.364/.700 slash line, two bombs, six RBIs in just nine games. Sure, the strikeouts need work—nobody wants another Joey Gallo experience—but overall? The kid was raking.

Meanwhile, Jasson Dominguez—who, let’s be honest, the Yankees have practically anointed as the future—hit a measly .219 with a single homer, three RBIs, and a .555 OPS. Small sample sizes? Absolutely. But if the best man is supposed to win, how do you justify keeping Dominguez over Jones when we’ve already seen how the Yankees treat “development” in the minors? Spoiler: They don’t. Just look at Dominguez’s glove work—if you can call it that.

Look, I’m not ranking on Dominguez as much as I am the development that the Yankees are supposed to be working on in the minors.

MiLB.com once hyped him as a “teen phenom ready to debut with ‘otherworldly’ expectations,” and somehow, nobody talked about his defense. Why? Because the Yankees or the baseball writers just don’t seem to care. They fall for the long ball and let everything else slide. It’s frustrating. Erik Boland of Newsday did quote a rival scout acknowledging Dominguez’s defensive regression but still calling him “ready.” Ready for what, exactly? Watching fly balls drop in left field?

This isn’t just a Dominguez problem—it’s a Yankees problem. He was rushed through the system because he hits nukes, and now they’re hoping everything else magically falls into place.And hey, maybe it will.  I cannot wait to see Dominguez in his first full year as a Yankee, but I also want to see Spencer Jones… hopefully together, even if Jones is there as a bench warner and filling in for Bellinger or Judge when they need a day off.  It’s exciting.

Look, at least the Yankees are keeping both guys in the picture. If they play their cards right, we’ll see them in the Bronx together soon. Fingers crossed.