{"id":79038,"date":"2024-07-05T15:24:51","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T19:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=79038"},"modified":"2024-07-05T15:24:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T19:24:51","slug":"domingo-german-triple-a-indianapolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/07\/05\/domingo-german-triple-a-indianapolis\/","title":{"rendered":"Polarizing Ex-Yankees Pitcher Continues Mediocre Performance in Minors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/germado01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-05_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Domingo Germ\u00e1n<\/a> came out of nowhere to pitch the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2023\/12\/08\/best-2023-mlb-moments\/\" target=\"_self\">24th perfect game<\/a> in MLB history for the New York Yankees on June 28, 2023.\u00a0 His perfect game came against the woeful Oakland Athletics, striking out nine batters on 99 pitches. But just two months later, Germ\u00e1n was placed on MLB&#8217;s restricted list following a clubhouse incident. It wasn&#8217;t the first time Germ\u00e1n received discipline for poor behavior. He served an<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2019\/09\/19\/domingo-german-administrative-leave-domestic-violence\/\" target=\"_self\"> 81-game suspension<\/a> due to violating MLB&#8217;s domestic violence policy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>After the Yankees released Germ<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00e1<\/span>n, he signed a one-year, $1.25 million deal with the Pittsburgh Pirates. The right-hander is pitching at Triple-A Indianapolis but producing mediocre results.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ALL 27 OUTS from Domingo German&#039;s Perfect Game | New York Yankees\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZBEPtNN7qhc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Domingo Germ\u00e1n&#8217;s Downward Spiral<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">At this point in Germ\u00e1n&#8217;s career, it is safe to say the perfect game was <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2021\/02\/12\/can-domingo-german-regain-his-2019-form\/\" target=\"_self\">the pinnacle<\/a>. Almost two months after that start, Germ\u00e1n being placed on the restricted list was <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2023\/08\/05\/domingo-german-out-of-chances\/\" target=\"_self\">the final straw for the Yankees<\/a>. <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Germ\u00e1n was receiving inpatient alcohol abuse treatment after destroying Yankee property in the clubhouse.\u00a0 By the end of the season, the rise and fall of Germ\u00e1n in New York was over.\u00a0 Even when he went on the open market, he received minimal interest until the Pirates came calling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The right-hander had been preparing for the season in Florida over the past two months. Germ\u00e1n wasn&#8217;t baseball-ready for spring training and was moved to the FCL Pirates to begin the season. He made his first start of the season on May 19 for Low-A Bradenton, where he allowed one earned run in four innings.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Germ\u00e1n&#8217;s Mediocre Performance<\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The rest of the season has been much of the same for the Dominican native. Through nine minor league games, Germ\u00e1n is sporting a 5.44 ERA.\u00a0 After his first five games, his 7.97 ERA was a career-worst. Germ\u00e1n is averaging just under one strikeout per inning this season.\u00a0 This is a small dip from his MLB stats, where he averaged just over one strikeout per inning. It&#8217;s evident that Germ\u00e1n is chewing innings and that&#8217;s it.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Domingo Germ\u00e1n\u2019s first 2 starts in AAA:<\/p>\n<p>May 19th: May 25th:<br \/>\n\u2014 5.0 IP \u2014 5.1 IP<br \/>\n\u2014 8 H \u2014 6 H<br \/>\n\u2014 6 R (4 ER) \u2014 5 R (4 ER)<br \/>\n\u2014 2 HR \u2014 1 HB<br \/>\n\u2014 3 K \u2022 2 BB \u2014 5 K \u2022 4 BB<a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LetsGoBucs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#LetsGoBucs<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eAOYoHdsr6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/eAOYoHdsr6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SkenesMuse (@PaulSkenesMuse) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulSkenesMuse\/status\/1796252094514499872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 30, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Germ\u00e1n&#8217;s lifetime MLB stats without his 2019 season are more indicative of what Germ\u00e1n brings to the table.\u00a0 Through five seasons he carries a 13 and 24 win\/loss record and an ERA over four. He has never started more than 20 games outside of 2019 and gives up a lot of barrels and hard hits. Germ\u00e1n has a solid chase and whiff rate but his average fastball velocity dipped <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">all the way<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> to 92 in 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze?<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">This offseason, the Pirates spent time meeting with and interviewing with Germ\u00e1n.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We got to the point where we felt like we had satisfied two questions,&#8221; general manager Ben Cherrington said in March. &#8220;One, have we understood everything more clearly that has happened, including the incident in 2019 that led to his domestic violence suspension and also more recently the incident last summer that led to his release. We felt like we were more clear on everything that had happened in the past. And also more clear on the work that he&#8217;s doing to grow from that. The second question became, &#8216;Is he deserving of a chance with the Pirates? Are we the right organization to partner with him?&#8217;. Ultimately, I made the decision to make an offer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">But is it worth the risk?\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/p\/plassmi01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-05_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Plassmeyer<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/l\/lauerer01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-05_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eric Lauer<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/p\/priesqu01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-05_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Quinn Priester<\/a> are just as good and a safer bet. Germ\u00e1n&#8217;s 2019 season and perfect game were outliers. Germ\u00e1n is <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">nothing more than<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> a below-average pitcher with mediocre stuff and lots of baggage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Main Photo: \u00a9 Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Domingo Germ\u00e1n came out of nowhere to pitch the 24th perfect game in MLB history for the New York Yankees on June 28, 2023.\u00a0 His perfect game came against the woeful Oakland Athletics, striking out nine batters on 99 pitches. But just two months later, Germ\u00e1n was placed on MLB&#8217;s restricted list following a clubhouse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5131,"featured_media":79092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26,1071],"tags":[2491,1311,2729,41,2694],"class_list":["post-79038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pirates","category-mlb","tag-domingo-german","tag-eric-lauer","tag-michael-plassmeyer","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-quinn-priester"],"modified_by":"Matt Graves","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}