Yankees News: Jasson Dominguez injury, terrible Gleyber Torres at-bat, Jose Trevino

If you thought for a second the New York Yankees were going to come out of their series against the Boston Red Sox unscathed, then your optimism has perhaps misguided you in 2024. The Yanks might be the best team in the league, but that doesn't change what happens (historicially) when they go to Fenway Park.

After notching a coast-to-coast 8-1 victory on Friday night, New York unraveled. They got two of their worst starts of the year from their best starters in Carlos Rodón and Marcus Stroman on Saturday and Sunday. The offense went 2-for-13 with RISP and left 13 runners on base in those games.

We'll get to it all in a minute, because the series loss (and embarrassment on Sunday Night Baseball) wasn't even the worst of it.

Prior to Sunday's rubber match, fans learned Jasson Dominguez suffered an injury and was placed on the IL.

During a game with the Scranton Wilkes-Barre RailRiders, Dominguez apparently went down with an oblique injury after hurting himself on a check-swing.

Yankees News: Jasson Dominguez injury, terrible Gleyber Torres at-bat, Jose Trevino

It's unclear how much time he'll miss, but it's well-known how tricky oblique injuries can be. And fans can't help but wonder if this would've happened if the Yankees just (rightfully) promoted the slugger after he dominated his rehab assignment and proved shortly after that Triple-A was inferior competition for him.

As for the big-league squad's performance, nothing was more magnifying than what happened in the seventh inning on Sunday. The Yankees got bailed out by a botched ground ball, as Dominic Smith bobbled what was a double play off the bat of Anthony Rizzo, which loaded the bases with nobody out.

Rizzo collided with reliever Brennan Bernardino in a play at first base and had to leave the game. He'll be seeing doctors and undergoing imaging on Monday. Troubling news, but the offense had a chance to pick up their teammate and respond emphatically.

Instead, Gleyber Torres, as expected, put up a non-competitive at-bat to set the tone in the worst way possible. After getting ahead in the count 3-0, Torres was very clearly looking for a walk. He stared at two strikes right down the middle to bring it full, and then chase an awful slider in the dirt to strike out. It's just not professional hitting. Torres went 0-for-10 in the series, including 0-for-5 with runners in scoring position. He stranded 12 runners. We're six weeks from the trade deadline, that's all we gotta say.

After that, Jose Trevino struck out swinging in what was an equally bad at-bat, and DJ LeMahieu lined out to center field to end the inning. Zero runs with the bases loaded and nobody out down by a run.

Let's keep the problems coming. On the night, the Red Sox stole a franchise record NINE bases off Trevino, who has had issues throwing out runners for quite a while now. It was only a matter of time before it was exposed in the worst way possible.

Trevino ranks 60th out of 60 catchers in arm strength and has been among the worst in the league at throwing runners out. Though his framing and blocking remain good, he ranks in the bottom 2% for pop time and the 28th percentile for caught stealing above average (he's only thrown out 19% of runners in 2024).

We're not saying Trevino needs to go (though we'd argue that about Gleyber), but the Yankees need to better prepare against faster teams in the league when he's catching because the Red Sox just exposed what could be a detrimental postseason flaw.

New week. Time to erase this from our brains.