Yankees Rookie Jasson Dominguez to Have Tommy John Surgery for UCL Tear

Yankees prospect Jasson Dominguez will undergo Tommy John surgery and will be sidelined until the middle of next season.

After a promising start to his MLB career, it’ll be a while before Yankees fans get to see top prospect Jasson Domínguez again. 

The 20-year-old outfielder will undergo Tommy John surgery on Wednesday to repair a torn UCL, manager Aaron Boone told reporters on Thursday. The team anticipates that he will be ready to return in nine to ten months, which would be in June or July of next year. 

Domínguez was diagnosed with a torn UCL on Sunday, shortly after he was removed from that day’s lineup due to complaints of elbow soreness. The nine-to-ten-month timeline is in line with what Boone said the team expected Domínguez’s recovery to be after he was initially diagnosed. 

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Domínguez has long been one of New York’s top prospects and has been a consensus top-100 prospect in the game since the team signed him in 2019. The Yankees called him up when rosters expanded on Sept. 1 and he hit a home run in his first big league plate appearance against the Astros. The centerfielder homered in four of the eight games he played in before the injury. 

Domínguez, who doesn’t turn 21 until February, had been in line to be the Yankees’  primary center fielder for the rest of this season after New York waived Harrison Bader.