Spencer Jones was named to the All-Star Futures Sport on Tuesday, a day after the Double-A Somerset outfielder was named Jap League Participant of the Week.
The 23-year-old Jones has had an up-and-down season with Somerset and is the Yankees’ second-ranked prospect, behind the injured Jasson Dominguez.
And although Dominguez shot via the Yankees’ farm system and made his MLB debut when he was simply 20, the group isn’t essentially in a rush to get the 6-foot-6 Jones to the majors, even after his first four-hit, multihomer recreation at Double-A on Saturday.
“The thrilling factor about Spencer is, he has days the place he will get 4 hits and hits moonshots and steals bases, however we discuss so much within the group about [Dellin] Betances [and] Aaron Decide and the way larger our bodies take slightly little bit of time to develop into themselves,’’ vice chairman of participant improvement Kevin Reese stated. “Spencer is super-athletic, however he’s obtained some issues he nonetheless must work on, and I don’t suppose anybody thought there wouldn’t be any pace bumps alongside the way in which. He’s just about on schedule for us.”
The 6-8 Betances and Decide, 6-7, each took some time to develop.
And like Decide, Jones was additionally drafted by the Yankees late within the first spherical out of school.
Decide went thirty second general out of Fresno State in 2013, and Jones was drafted twenty fifth general in 2022 out of Vanderbilt.
Decide was 25 throughout his breakout rookie season of 2017, and Betances was 26 when he emerged as an All-Star right-hander out of the bullpen in 2014.
Requested about similarities between Jones and Decide, Reese stated, “If something, the lesson to be discovered [with Judge] is persistence. Aaron did some issues that made him the participant that he’s. It helped that he was gifted, however he labored his butt off and wasn’t afraid to take some dangers alongside the way in which in his improvement. That’s in all probability the largest takeaway. The story is rarely totally written. The event course of by no means actually ends.”
To Reese’s level, Jones has struck out 107 occasions this season, probably the most within the Jap League.
However he’s additionally fourth in stolen bases with 18 and fifth in RBIs with 45.
Double-A left-hander Brock Selvidge was additionally chosen to the Futures Sport, which might be held July 13 at Globe Life Discipline in Arlington, Texas.
