Controversial 27-year-old Yankee Domingo German hints at retirement

Domingo German appears to have retired at the age of 27.

The New York Yankees weren’t expecting much out of Domingo German in the shortened 2020 campaign. As fate would have it, not only will he not throw a pitch for New York this season, but he may never play in the majors ever again.

German, who received an 81-game suspension after a domestic violence incident in which he slapped his girlfriend at a charity gala, hinted on Instagram that he is retiring, claiming in a post that he is “done with baseball.”

German continued to tell everyone he was done with baseball, adding that he was “proud of my effort” over the course of his 11-year career. This is stunning to say the least given how young he is.

Domingo German’s retirement comes after his breakout 2019 season.

German was originally an afterthought in a Yankees-Marlins trade that sent David Phelps and Martin Prado to Miami while netting New York a return of the enticing young Dominican, Garrett Jones, and Nathan Eovaldi. After a smattering of appearances in 2017 and a roller-coaster 2018, German finally put it all together in 2019.

Riding on the back of a nasty curveball, German won 18 games and posted a 4.03 ERA. Unfortunately, his domestic violence issues caught up with him, and he had to watch the Yankees’ run to the ALCS at home.

While the Yankees would likely have welcomed German back after his suspension elapsed due to his lethal he was in 2019, the presence of promising young pitchers like Jordan Montgomery, Jonathan Loaisiga, and Clarke Schmidt make German a bit more expendable. 

German went from complete wild card to promising young starter to morally reprehensible punching bag to out of the league in a little over 365 days. German’s wild ride appears to finally have ended, but very few on the Yankees will be sad to see him go.