LAKELAND, Fla. — In having the inevitable but difficult conversation with Jasson Dominguez, Aaron Boone told the young outfielder he didn’t expect many more of those talks.

“Told him I don’t plan on sending him down very often,” the Yankees manager said Friday, a day after the Yankees cut Dominguez from big-league camp.

“The Martian” played up to his otherworldly nickname.

In 11 Grapefruit League games, Dominguez hit .455 (10-for-22) with four home runs, a double, nine RBIs, a steal and as many walks (three) as strikeouts.

A player who turned 20 last month never had a chance to make the Yankees out of camp, but Dominguez has put himself firmly on their radar.

After an up-and-down first minor league season in 2021, Dominguez took off in 2022 and kept the momentum going in spring training.

Boone pinpointed the way Dominguez conducted his spring at-bats — with the ability to lay off balls, be selective and still make hard contact — as a standout skill.

Then he watched Dominguez, who stole 37 minor league bases last season, line a double into the right-field corner Thursday and hustle his way to second.

Boone watched the speed and said, “Whoa.”

“I think [Dominguez] kind of showed all of us that reason to be excited about what his future is,” Boone said of Dominguez, who conquered A-ball last year (with a .906 OPS in High-A Hudson Valley) and touched Double-A Somerset by the end of the season. “The biggest thing is to continue to get him playing.

“He’s certainly probably a lot closer now and certainly on our radar with how the last 12 months have gone for him.”

The most logical next step for Dominguez is back at Double-A, and “I don’t think what we saw here changes that,” Boone said.

Dominguez needs more reps, with just five games of Double-A experience and zero games in which he has played a corner-outfield spot.

Boone indicated the Yankees will move him around the outfield in the minors to help his flexibility.

Boone’s overall message to the jewel of the 2019 international signing period was to keep playing exactly as he has been playing because, “We all believe he can be impactful up here.”

“Excited to see where this year takes him,” Boone said before the Yankees lost to the Tigers, 8-7, at Publix Field, “and we’ll see where he ends up.”

Deivi Garcia, who came up from minor league camp to throw two scoreless innings, could be used in the minors as a reliever capable of providing decent length.

Essentially, the Yankees could try to turn him into another Michael King.

Boone did not want to say so definitively (“He can still start as well,” Boone said), but the idea intrigues the manager.

“He could potentially be in that two-, three-inning role, where he can come and go a time through the order out of the pen,” Boone said.

Garcia, who debuted at age 21 with plenty of hype in 2020, has looked lost the past two seasons. He showed improved stuff and velocity in camp.

“The question is: Can he be that guy that goes two or three times through the order from a stamina standpoint, and just the ability to repeat his delivery and have that command that’s necessary to be a starting pitcher,” Boone said of the 23-year-old. “He’s a young man.”

Oswald Peraza, maybe the front-runner for the shortstop job, got hit in the knee by a Joey Wentz curveball.

He hobbled to first base, where a trainer and Boone checked on him.

Peraza stayed in the game, and Boone said he was OK.