Will 2026 finally be the year that Jasson Dominguez carves out an everyday role in the Yankees' lineup? His 2023 cameo tantalized. His end-of-year surgery depressed. His stuck-in-between career has bugged us ever since. Can't he get more run? Should he, if the defense never gets better? What's the peak? What's the fit?
Consider the Yankees as confused as the rest of us. There might be an elite leadoff hitter in there, and he very well could get the chance to replace Trent Grisham in 2026 with a lengthy runway ahead of him. He also might not make it to Opening Day, and a recently released tidbit about the Yankees' 2025 trade deadline only serves to further reinforce the Yankees' semi-skeptical view.