Here are Monday's 10 best prospect performers

September 3rd, 2019

Here are the 10 best performances by players on team Top 30 Prospects lists from across the Minor Leagues on Monday:

Jarred Kelenic, OF Mariners No. 1; Juan Then, RHP Mariners No. 16
Kelenic hit a solo homer in Double-A Arkansas’ final regular-season game after going deep twice on Sunday in his third multihomer game of the season. The No. 22 overall prospect had an outstanding first full season, batting .291/.364/.540 with 23 home runs, 59 extra-base hits and 20 steals in 117 games while ascending three levels, from Class A West Virginia to Double-A. The Travelers will play Tulsa in the opening round of the Texas League playoffs.

Down in the South Atlantic League, Then tossed five hitless frames in a game that saw Class A West Virginia carry a combined no-hit bid into the eighth inning against Greensboro. Then struck out three and issued a pair of walks before departing the game with 79 pitches (47 strikes). The Mariners signed Then out of Puerto Rico in July 2016, but traded him to the Yankees in November 2017 for reliever Nick Rumbelow. This past June, New York sent him back to the Mariners in the Edwin Encarnacion deal. Mariners prospect stats »

Nick Madrigal, 2B White Sox No. 4
Madrigal was perfect at the plate in his final game of the season for Triple-A Charlotte. The No. 40 overall prospect set a career high in hits, going 5-for-5 with a pair of RBIs and two runs, though his big performance wasn’t enough to keep the Knights from falling to Norfolk, 7-6, in a season-ending, walk-off loss. Charlotte appeared playoff-bound in the International League for much of August but ultimately came up short, dropping eight of their final nine games. As for Madrigal, the 2018 No. 4 overall Draft pick was outstanding in his first full season, slashing .311/.377/.414 in 120 games across three levels. He tallied 34 extra-base hits, scored 76 runs, swiped 35 bags and finished the season with more than twice as many walks (44) as strikeouts (16). White Sox prospect stats »

Brennen Davis, OF Cubs No. 3
In his second game back with Class A South Bend after missing all of August with a hand injury, Davis connected on a go-ahead solo homer in the seventh inning to cap a perfect 3-for-3 day at the plate in the Cubs’ 3-2 win against Bowling Green. Davis reached base in each of his four plate appearances, tallying a pair of singles and a walk to go along with his eighth home run of the season. Viewed by scouts as a raw but toolsy outfielder when the Cubs made him their second-round pick in 2018, Davis proved to be more advanced than initially thought in his first taste of full-season ball. The 19-year-old outfielder batted .305/.381/.525 with 20 extra-base hits and 30 RBIs, compiling 38 strikeouts and 18 walks in 50 games. Cubs prospect stats »

Alec Bohm, 3B/1B Phillies No. 1
Bohm, the No. 3 pick in last year’s Draft, recorded a pair of run-scoring hits and finished 2-for-5 with three RBIs, though it wasn’t enough to keep Double-A Reading from falling to Trenton, 8-7. The No. 34 overall prospect delivered an RBI single in the first inning and then connected on a two-run homer to left field in the fifth for his 14th Double-A home run. Climbing three levels, from Class A Lakewood to Reading, in his first full season, the 23-year-old third baseman produced a .305/.378/.518 line with 21 homers, 30 doubles and 80 RBIs in 125 games. Bohm’s season will continue in the Eastern League playoffs, with Reading and Trenton set to square off in the opening round starting Wednesday. Phillies prospect stats »

Triston Casas, 1B/3B Red Sox No. 1
The Red Sox promoted Casas, the organization’s 2018 first-round pick and current top prospect (MLB No. 86), to Class A Advanced Salem ahead of the Carolina League playoffs after he had batted .254/.349/.472 with 19 homers, 25 doubles and 78 RBIs in 118 games with Class A Greenville. The 19-year-old first baseman went 2-for-4 in his Salem debut and followed it up on Monday by going 1-for-3 with a three-run homer that proved the difference in a 3-1 win over Carolina. He finished his first full season with 20 home runs and 81 RBIs in 120 games. Red Sox prospect stats »

Heliot Ramos, OF Giants No. 2
Ramos (MLB No. 52) hit his third Double-A home run to help power Richmond past Bowie, 7-1, in the Flying Squirrels’ final game of the season. Ramos’ homer, a three-run shot, was the third of three dingers Richmond hit against Bowie left-hander Alex Wells in a six-run fourth inning. The 19-year-old outfielder finished the game 2-for-4 to end his 2019 campaign on six-game hitting streak. In his second full season, the former first-round pick (2017) batted .290/.369/.481 with 16 homers, 41 extra-base hits and 55 RBIs in 102 games between Richomond and Class A Advanced San Jose. Giants prospect stats »

Jordyn Adams, OF Angels No. 3
In his final at-bat of the season, Adams went deep. Adams hit a solo home run in the eighth inning to cap a 3-for-4 performance in Class A Advanced Inland Empire’s loss to Rancho Cucamonga. Adams’ three knocks accounted for half of the 66ers’ hits in the contest and were his most in nine games since his promotion to the California League. The Angels gave Adams, their 2018 first-round pick, an aggressive assignment to Class A Burlington to open his first full season, and the 19-year-old outfielder, rather unsurprisingly, struggled out of the gate, hitting .162/.294/.222 with four extra-base hits over his first 27 contests. But as the weather in the Midwest League began to heat up, so did Adams’ bat, and he slashed .292/.374/.402 with 19 extra-base hit (5 HR) and 12 steals over his final 72 games before moving up to Inland Empire. Angels prospect stats »

Dylan Carlson, OF Cardinals No. 2
Carlson tied a bow on his breakout campaign by flirting with the cycle in Triple-A Memphis’ final game of the season -- a 9-6 loss to Iowa. The No. 49 overall prospect lined the second pitch of the game into right field for a single and opened the fourth inning with his fifth home run in 18 games for the Redbirds. A leadoff double in the sixth inning left the 20-year-old switch-hitter a triple short of the cycle, but he was unable to come up with the hit in his final two at-bats (strikeout, flyout) and finished 3-for-5. The Cardinals’ first-round pick from the 2016 Draft, Carlson batted .292/.372/.542 with 26 homers, 60 extra-base hits and 20 steals in 126 games between Memphis and Double-A Springfield, where he garnered Player of the Year honors in the Texas League. Cardinals prospect stats »

Carlos Vargas, RHP Indians No. 22
Vargas’ final regular-season start for Class A Short-Season Mahoning Valley was also his best of the year, as the Indians’ No. 22 prospect tossed seven scoreless frames to pace the Scrappers in a 2-0 shutout of West Virginia. The 19-year-old right-hander permitted three hits and one walk and struck out five in the outing, throwing 51 of 77 pitches for strikes. Though Vargas struggled early in the New York-Penn League season, posting a 6.39 ERA across his first nine starts, he was able to settle in and dominate down the stretch, registering a 2.12 ERA with 38 strikeouts over his final 34 frames (six starts). Indians prospect stats»