Yankees: Jasson Dominguez chucking fastballs proves baseball is easy for him

Yankees top prospect Jasson Dominguez really can do everything, from ripping fastballs with the bat to ripping fastballs on the mound.

So far, Yankees fans have seen Jasson “The Martian” Dominguez do everything but appear in an actual, competitive, organized minor-league baseball game.

Of course, that’s not his fault. Like so many of us, 2020 was going to be his year! Until the coronavirus pandemic shut down the minor-league season/all of our dreams/stopped me from becoming famous/etc.

Luckily, we’re still getting Dominguez updates in fits and spurts, and the man appears to be more jacked than ever before. He’s grown like an old oak, ripping monster dingers effortlessly in all the highlight clips that have surfaced thus far. Sometimes, he’s flipping over a massive tire like it’s a chiclet.

And on Friday, we got a short video of Dominguez on the mound, popping the radar gun with a 96 MPH fastball which he doesn’t even really need.

https://twitter.com/TalkinYanks/status/1327238283072589824?s=20

Truly, how? He’s pretty much just slingin’ it from behind his head like a hungover high school outfielder in yet another pointless warmup (not speaking from experience, just, uh, painting a picture), and it’s popping 96 on the gun.

Deivi Garcia’s a fantastic prospect. He doesn’t get it that high.

Is this a hot gun? Or simply another example of why Dominguez is the wonkiest 17-year-old we’ve ever seen?

The Yankees really do need a phenom like this, considering the Rays have all-world prospect Wander Franco arriving next season. Add in the fact that you can’t get Randy Arozarena out anymore, and there’s a significant talent influx arriving in Florida for the foreseeable future.

For now, Dominguez’s future is unknowable — he’s stuck in stasis. Until the kid gets an honest crack at organized baseball, he’s nothing and everything.

We’ll gladly accept a new Dominguez video every week or so, though, until the offseason ends. What next, Jeterian jump throws? Unicycle stuff? The world waits!

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