New York Yankees Jon Heyman Spencer Jones deserved his Yankees chance — even if there are concerning questions to answer By Jon Heyman Published May 7, 2026, 7:58 p.m. ET Spencer Jones rounds the bases after hitting a home run during a Feb. 21 spring training game. Charles Wenzelberg Batting about 1.000 on decisions lately, the Yankees kept their perfect recent record going by calling up from Triple-A Scranton-Wilkes-Barre big-time outfield prospect Spencer Jones after their latest rout. It was the right thing to do, maybe not even as much for them as it is for him.
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Jones, a rare power/speed dynamo, brings big-time tools to a team more tooled-up than an Ace Hardware megastore. That’s nice. But the promotion also is justice, which is important, too. Jones, who turns 25 next week, already spent nearly as much time in Scranton as Michael Scott on “The Office.”
The Yankees are playing shorthanded lately, with Ben Rice, Giancarlo Stanton and José Caballero all out, but they’re still managing to run through the rest of the American League like it’s the American Legion. Jones gets his chance because Jasson Domínguez is joining the fine sidelined trio of starters — Rice and Caballero will likely be back soon — after suffering head and shoulder injuries making a spectacular catch on the first play of the Yankees’ latest runaway victory, a 9-2 shellacking of Texas.
I get that Jones isn’t a perfect player. Which is what the Yankees thought about Aaron Judge before they promoted him and a year or so later found out he actually was perfect.
