The Yankees’ path to signing Jasson Dominguez as a 16-year-old and giving him a whopping $5 million bonus began two years ago and Donny Rowland, the team’s director of international scouting, recalled on Wednesday his introduction to Dominguez as a hitter.
“[He’s] an elite-level athlete with elite baseball tools and the first time I saw him it was evident,’’ Rowland said on a conference call Tuesday. “He’s the kind of player that makes the hair on your arm stand up when you watch him. When you watch him work out, when you watch him move and when you watch him play in games, he has a plethora of well-above average tools across the board that we hope, in time, will translate into usable skills at the major league level.