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Yadir (Dominguez) Drake (born April 12, 1990) is a Cuban professional baseball outfielder who is a free agent.
Drake played for the Matanzas team in the Cuban National Series. He defected to Mexico in 2011. He then played with a couple of semi-professional minor league teams in Mexico before participating in a workout for Major League Baseball scouts in August 2014. He was signed as an international free agent by the Los Angeles Dodgers. He hit .310 in seven games for the class-A Great Lakes Loons of the Midwest League at the start of the 2015 season and was promptly promoted to the Advanced-A Rancho Cucamonga Quakes of the California League. After another seven games for the Quakes (where hit .407) he was again quickly promoted, this time to the AA Tulsa Drillers of the Texas League. In 196 games for Tulsa, he hit .269. He returned to Tulsa to start the 2016 season. He hit only .109 in 19 games and was released on May 27, 2016.




