Sad news: Top Yankees prospect ruled out and has been formally placed on the seven-day disabled list in Triple-A due to injury.
Top prospect Jasson Dominguez has been formally placed on the seven-day disabled list by the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders.
The Yankees optioned Dominguez to Triple-A because they had no room for him in their crowded outfield, despite having recently reinstated him from the 60-day IL as his rehab assignment was coming to a close.
He was taken out of yesterday’s game after six innings, though it’s unclear if his rehabilitation from Tommy John surgery and a ruptured UCL has anything to do with the young player’s present injury.
Throughout his rehab assignment, Dominguez showed no signs of weakness, tearing up the ball in 23 games across three minor league levels, good for a.356 average and 1.014 OPS.
It won’t take long for the 21-year-old slugger to push his way into the Yankees’ starting lineup if he can return to the field soon and keep hitting.
In his short time in the major leagues last season, Dominguez looked the part, hitting a double and four home runs in only eight games prior to sustaining the injury that ended his season.
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The Yankees-Red Sox rivalry’s characteristics in the modern sports world
Has the animosity between the Red Sox and Yankees cooled off yet? Indeed. No matter how fantastic or horrible one or both teams are, it remains the greatest rivalry in all of sports.
What is a classic rivalry?
That may initially seem like a bit too general a question, but as I sat there and watched Alex Verdugo take the field for the first time in his Fenway Park debut as an outfielder for the Boston Red Sox before moving on to play for the New York Yankees, it occurred to me. I thought about it for a few seconds, but then he took the first pitch and took it 406 feet over the green center field wall.
For many years, the Yankees and Red Sox have had a well-established rivalry. The purpose of this article is not to investigate the past of the two teams or the reasons behind their strong ties. That was been accomplished by so many extraordinarily gifted people. But, there is a certain quality to this rivalry that is ingrained in both the “wounds that will never heal” between the two fanbases and the rivalry’s historical significance.
But once more, we ask, “What constitutes a timeless rivalry?”
At least for me, there are a couple of things. It helps to be two of the sport’s founding franchises; teams like the Boston Bruins and Montreal Canadiens are examples of this throughout the sports world. Although they are not the closest teams to one another, the Yankees and Red Sox are both two of the original six National Hockey League teams with illustrious histories and frequent run-ins. The Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Bears could potentially be mentioned in the group.
Thus, franchise age is important, and geography follows automatically. Both the Yankees’ and Red Sox’s routes to Fenway are simple for supporters of both teams to travel. Early humans may have felt the impulse to protect their territory against “outsiders” or those who don’t belong. That’s a remnant of our tribalistic past, particularly in an environment like European soccer, where home and away supporters sometimes engage in physical altercations because the home supporters believe the traveling supporters are, for lack of a better term, “invading their territory.”
