The Martian was definitely time well spent.

Fans finally got a peek of the future on Friday when the Yankees debuted Jasson Dominguez, a prоspect who has been talked about for years. Dominguez Һit two home runs in a three-game sweep of the Astros in his debut.

Who or what gave Dominguez, the Yankees’ second-best prоspect and Major League Baseball’s 76th-best prоspect, the nickname “The Martian?”

This nick has a long history.

When Dominguez was just a youngster, he began crushing baseballs in his native Dominican Republic, catching the attention of major league scouts with his speed, power, and switch-hitting center fielder abilities.

For this reason, “someone” gave him the moniker El Marciano, Spanish for The Martian, and it stuck “because there was no way he was from this world,” as ESPN’s Jeff Passan put it.The celebrations began the moment the Yankees signed Dominguez, then 16 years old, for a record $5.1 million in July of 2019.

Scouts have been smitten with Dominguez ever since they first saw him, drawing similarities to legends like Mickey Mantle and Bo Jackson.

“It’s very rare to see that combination,” Donny Rowland, the Yankees’ head of amateur scouting, told The Post recently. The analytical data supported everything you saw while evaluating a player’s “tools,” “athleticism,” “makeup,” and “performance” as an amateur. He was perfect in every way.After a dismal debut in the minors, reservations remained about Dominguez’s major-league prospects. However, he began putting those fears to rest with a strong 2022.

When Dominguez was promoted to Triple-A in the middle of 2023, he began to explоde after starting the year in Double-A, where he Һit 15 home runs, stole 37 bases, and had an OPS of.781.He had a 1.094 OPS in nine games with Scranton, and the Yankees, who are already thinking about next season, rewarded him by promoting him.

Dominguez joined Aaron Judge, Yogi Berra, and Joe Lefebvre as the only other Yankees to smаsh two home runs in their first three career games with his two blasts this weekend.Dominguez’s first major league experience suggests that The Martian will continue to wow Yankees fans for the foreseeable future.