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Top Yankees Prospect Dominguez Has Torn UCL, Could Miss All of 2024

The New York Yankees received more bad news Sunday evening. Top prospect Jasson Dominguez has a torn UCL, Bob Nightengale reports.

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Top Yankees Prospect Dominguez Has Torn UCL, Could Miss All of 2024
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The 2023 season continues to get worse for the New York Yankees, as the club was met with unfortunate news Sunday evening.

Top prospect Jasson Dominguez has suffered a torn UCL injury, USA Today's Bob Nightengale reports.

Dominguez received a promotion to the Yankees' big league roster just over a week ago. The switch-hitting center fielder made his big league debut in Houston on September 1, smashing a home run in his first career game.

Dominguez was scratched from the Yankees' lineup Sunday, in the club's series finale against the Milwaukee Brewers. Now, he could miss all of 2024. A torn UCL typically requires Tommy John surgery. Dominguez's 2023 season is done.

In eight games with the Yankees, Dominguez slashed .258/.303/.980 with four home runs and seven RBI.

Even with Dominguez out of the lineup Sunday, the Yankees were able to pick up 4-3 win over the Brewers in 13 innings, improving their record to 71-72 on the season. They will travel to Boston to open a four-game series with the Red Sox Monday at Fenway Park.

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JACK VITA

Jack Vita is a writer and contributor to Sports Illustrated's Inside the Pinstripes, and host of the Jack Vita Show, a popular sports podcast available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube and wherever podcasts are found. Jack is a 2017 graduate of Valparaiso University, in northwest Indiana. Since completing his degree, Jack has created his own independent sports media outlet (JackVita.com) and podcast (the Jack Vita Show). He has featured prominent guests from the worlds of sports and entertainment including Brian Urlacher, Scot Pollard, Bob Nightengale, Dan O'Dowd, and Survivor icons Stephenie LaGrossa Kendrick, Cirie Fields, Danni Boatwright and "the Dragon Slayer", Coach Benjamin Wade. While studying at Valparaiso, Jack was the school newspaper's beat writer for the Valpo Crusaders men's basketball team, which won three straight Horizon League championships from 2015-2017. Traveling to cover the team, Jack had a front row seat to one of the nation's best mid-major teams, headlined by future NBA Draft pick Alec Peters and coached by NCAA Tournament hero Bryce Drew. Jack hosted a weekly sports radio show and provided play-by-play and color commentary services for ESPN 3 and the university's student radio station, WVUR-FM, 95.1 The Source, covering Valparaiso men's soccer, women's basketball, softball and volleyball. Jack also covered these sports, in addition to men's and women's tennis, baseball and women's soccer for the school newspaper, The Torch. While he was in college, Jack interned for and co-hosted Jewell On Sports, a sports radio program on AM 1050 WLIP in Kenosha, Wisconsin. There, he interviewed various pro athletes such as Ahman Green, Javon Walker and Javier Arenas, in addition to talking sports with the late, great Brad Jewell. Jack also interned for 22nd Century Media, a now defunct newspaper corporation that provided news to the North Shore of Chicago. With 22nd Century Media, Jack wrote post-game recaps, feature stories about local athletes, reviews of local restaurants and compiled the newspaper's "Pet of the Week" and "Athlete of the Week" sections, while providing copy-editing services. Before attending Valparaiso, Jack enrolled at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin, where he studied for two years before transferring. He is a high school graduate of New Trier Township High School in Winnetka, Illinois. You can follow Jack on Twitter @JackVitaShow, subscribe to his podcast, the Jack Vita Show, wherever podcasts are found, and reach him via email at jack@jackvita.com.

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