The immediate comparison is probably to Gary Sanchez, who made the heartbeat of Yankees fans and executives all aflutter when the-then 23-year-old catcher was promoted to The Bronx in August 2016 as part of a reset during the last season the team failed to qualify for the postseason.

Sanchez, who’d been part of the organization for six years after signing as an amateur free agent, was a revelation. He — and not Aaron Judge, who followed 10 days later — appeared to be the franchise’s crown jewel while smacking 20 home runs in 52 games, driving in 42 runs and slashing .299/.376/.657 with a 1.032 OPS.

He finished second in Rookie of the Year balloting to Detroit starting pitcher Michael Fulmer despite having played only one-third of the season. The future appeared limitless. But Sanchez, his game and his future in pinstripes proved quite limited.

Then there is this one out of 2011, when the Yankees promoted then 21-year-old catcher Jesus Montero to the club as part of September mass call-ups as the team prepared for the playoffs.

He hit two home runs against the Orioles on Labor Day at the Stadium for which he was accorded a pair of curtain calls. That was his fourth big-league game. He crushed the ball throughout his cameo, slashing .328/.406/.590 with a .966 OPS and a 163 OPS-plus with four homers and 12 RBIs in 18 games.

The future seemed limitless. Three months after taking those curtain calls, the curtain fell on Montero’s Yankees career when he was traded to Seattle as part of a package in exchange for starting pitcher Michael Pineda. The young man was out of the majors for good only four years later.

You never really can be sure, can you?

A dozen years to the day following Montero’s showstopping performance, the spotlight was trained on 20-year-old Jasson Dominguez, who has become the face of the Yankees’ youth movement following his fast-tracked promotion to the majors.

Promoted last Friday after only nine games and 31 at-bats in Triple-A following his first year at the Double-A level, the center fielder crushed a pair of home runs in the Yankees’ three-game weekend sweep in Houston. Tuesday, against Detroit in his Stadium debut, Dominguez was third in the order. He took batting practice in a group that featured Judge, Giancarlo Stanton and Anthony Volpe.

Running with the big dogs at the big ballpark in The Bronx.

“He seems to have such a good disposition,” manager Aaron Boone said of Dominguez, who told The Post that Tuesday marked the first time he had ever been to Yankee Stadium. “Sometimes guys come up and they struggle not because they’re at home or on the road but because of the ups-and-downs of the game.

“I think it’s great when you come up and have the weekend he did where he gets his first hits and home runs and gets the nerves out of the way. I’m sure there’ll be a whole other level of excitement coming out here today but I feel he’s equipped to handle all of that.”

The Yankees signed the native of the Dominican Republic when he was 16 years old in 2019 to a free-agent contract that featured a record international bonus of $5.1 million. There was all sorts of hype. He gained the nickname, “The Martian,” because of his out-of-the-world skills.

Interestingly, though, he dropped in the rankings over the three years after he signed. The Yankees summoning Dominguez in the club’s worst season in decades was not quite tantamount to the Reds promoting baseball’s top-rated prospect Elly De La Cruz.

Baseball America had the 5-foot-10, 190-pounder rated 33rd in the pre-2021 rankings. He began this season at No. 67 and stood at No. 71 at midseason. Shortstop Oswaldo Peraza and pitcher Chase Hampton were rated higher within the organization.

MLB Pipeline had Dominguez rated No. 76 among prospects during midseason, one rung beneath fellow pinstripe prospect Spencer Jones, an outfielder at the Double-A level at Somerset.

But the drumbeat has been as steady as Dominguez’s progress. And the Yankees needed to change the conversation. Badly. These days, at least, folks have stopped speculating about Boone’s job status. The driving emotion of anger from the fan base has been redirected, at least temporarily.

There is a prospect to savor.

“We just want to see continued growth,” Boone said of Dominguez, who had impressed everyone at spring training. “He’s a young, young man, 20 years old, and we’ve known about him now for a number of years. He’s come with huge expectations and I feel like he’s handled that really well.

“He’s had his ups-and-downs in the minor leagues and through it all, he’s continued to grow and put together a really strong minor league season this year. We’re just looking for steady growth.”

Once there was Sanchez. Before him, Montero. Before them, Joba Chamberlain in 2007, the last prospect so dramatically fast-tracked by the organization. He was a phenom. And he, too, seemed to have a limitless future. There was a limit.

You never really know, do you?