The Yankees Are About To Sign a 16 Year Old Superstar Who Is Being Compared To God, Mike Trout, and Mickey Mantle
Tomorrow is a special day in the history of mankind. It’s the day Jasson Dominguez becomes a New York Yankee. I normally wouldn’t write a White Sox Dave-esque blog about a prospect because I know you guys don’t really care, BUT Jasson Dominguez might actually be the best baseball prospect in the history of the sport. He is what I like to call a God Child. And no, I will not stand for those saying there’s no way he’s 16 and that he’s actually 25. Brian Cashman is a good man with good values. Also, the rest of baseball better hope he’s 25 because if he’s actually 16 he’s still growing into his body and has limitless potential.
We’ve known about Dominguez and the Yankees for months. You can’t officially signed international free agents until July 2nd, but this deal has been done for a while. There have been pics of Dominguez wearing Yankees gear for a while on his Insta. His dad grew up a giant Yankees fan and named him after Jason Giambi. Tomorrow is all but a formality. Cashman is giving him basically 90 percent of the team’s allotted pool money. The $5 million signing bonus he’s being given is the most in the franchise’s history with IFAs. Cashman has really taken to this market over the last 5-7 years and harvested it with guys like Sevy, Gary Sanchez, Andujar, Florial and much more. The draft really doesn’t mean shit to him anymore. He wants all of the IFA superstars he can have. Tomorrow he gets his golden prize.
Some of the experts from this Jeff Passan article are legit porn…
For starters, his nickname is El Marciano, which translates to The Martian
In the tight-knit world of baseball in the Dominican Republic, the legend of the kid spread quickly. He was a switch-hitter with world-class speed, an arm nobody would challenge and the body of a man. Someone called him El Marciano, and the nickname stuck. The Martian, it meant. Because there was no way he was from this world.
Now here comes the Trout comp…
One general manger who has seen him said, “he’s like [Mike] Trout. And Trout wasn’t close to this good when he was 16.”
All of his tools grade above a 55 which is just unprecedented for a kid that young. His exit velo, something the Yankees nerds cum themselves over, regularly tops 110 mph. He’s also faster than an incoming LSU cornerback.
Dominguez has distinguished himself on raw numbers. He regularly reaches upward of 110 mph exit velocities swinging from both sides of the plate. Only 28 major leaguers have hit a ball 110 mph at least 10 times this season. Dominguez, two scouts said, has clocked around 6.3 seconds in the 60-yard dash. That’s faster than Mo Hampton, arguably the best athlete in the MLB draft class of 2019 who decided instead to play cornerback at LSU this year.
And fuck it, let’s drop a Mickey Mantle comparison too while we’re here..
“But,” an international scouting director who tried and failed to sign Dominguez said, “it’s like Mickey Mantle. He’s not 6-foot. He’s a switch-hitter. He’s got crazy power. He’s fast as s—. He loves playing.”
He’s 16 years old. Is it crazy to think he’s here by the time he’s 20? Maybe sooner if he’s really as good as advertised? I’m curious where he ranks in the MLB Pipeline the moment he signs. What number prospect is he in the Yankees system? Sky is the limit. Having a superstar in the making like Dominguez makes a guy like Estevan Florial expendable in my mind if it means a big time trade later this month. I can’t help but be giddy at the thought of a player like Jasson Dominguez in The Bronx dominating humanity as we know it.
Brian Cashman, I love you.
P.S. There are barely any highlights on the internet of this kid, just a few random ones of his majestic swing.