{"id":72108,"date":"2024-05-02T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T13:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=72108"},"modified":"2024-05-02T00:17:40","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T04:17:40","slug":"spencer-jones-prospect-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/05\/02\/spencer-jones-prospect-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees&#8217; Top-Prospect Has Been On Fire With Somerset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top-prospect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milb.com\/player\/spencer-jones-682987?stats=splits-r-hitting-mlb&amp;year=2024\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spencer Jones<\/a> has been on a tear to start his 2024 season. Do his stats make him worthy of a mid-season promotion?<\/p>\n<h3>The Somerset Phenom<\/h3>\n<p>Spencer Jones had one heck of an April. Since returning from a calf strain on April 13th, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/prospects\/yankees\/spencer-jones-682987\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#2 Yankees prospect<\/a> proceeded to tear it up with the AA Somerset Patriots. Over 12 games, he slashed .320\/.382\/.540 with 6 of his 16 hits going for extra bases. This type of line gets chalked up for many hitters as an unsustainable hot streak, but to Jones, this is just the status quo. On Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLB\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MLB<\/a> posted a tweet highlighting the continued success Jones has found to start his professional career, and, well, the numbers speak for themself.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">In 153 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MiLB?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@MiLB<\/a> games, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Yankees?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Yankees<\/a> No. 2 prospect Spencer Jones is turning some heads. \ud83d\udc40 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QDp0YRCgSB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/QDp0YRCgSB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MLB (@MLB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLB\/status\/1785059250093412471?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 29, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With stats like that, fans have started discussing whether he&#8217;s ready for the pros. The idea has gotten enough traction that even beat writer <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BryanHoch\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bryan Hoch<\/a> wrote an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/spencer-jones-makes-successful-double-a-season-debut\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article<\/a> about it.<\/p>\n<h3>See You In The Bronx?<\/h3>\n<p>So, does a great month constitute a call-up to the bigs soon? In this case, it&#8217;s very unlikely. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, Spencer Jones is in the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2023\/08\/30\/yankees-promoting-top-prospects\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Yankees&#8217; long-term plans<\/a>. The front office and fans alike dream of the day the starting outfield is a rotation of Jones, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=doming002jas\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jasson Dom\u00ednguez<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/j\/judgeaa01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aaron Judge<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/sotoju01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Juan Soto<\/a> &#8211; it&#8217;s just that today is not that day.<\/p>\n<p>The former Vanderbilt Commodore needs more experience against upper-level pitching. He&#8217;s only played in 30 games at the AA level. He has got to prove he can handle the higher ranks of the minors before he gets his shot in the Bronx. However, a promotion to AAA is not out of the question.<\/p>\n<p>At just 22 years old, he&#8217;s still well ahead of the curve and projects to get his shot with the Yankees soon.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credits: Sam Navarro-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top-prospect Spencer Jones has been on a tear to start his 2024 season. Do his stats make him worthy of a mid-season promotion? The Somerset Phenom Spencer Jones had one heck of an April. Since returning from a calf strain on April 13th, the #2 Yankees prospect proceeded to tear it up with the AA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4905,"featured_media":72134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1071,35],"tags":[501,2599],"class_list":["post-72108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-yankees","category-mlb","category-news","tag-aaron-judge","tag-spencer-jones"],"modified_by":"Evan Mazza, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4905"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}