Smith on MLB Pipeline’s Prospect Team of the Week

MLBPipeline.com’s Prospect Team of the Week honors the best performances from the previous seven days. Any player currently on an organization Top 30 Prospects list on our Prospect Watch is eligible, including big leaguers.

The latest edition of MLBPipeline.com’s Prospect Team of the Week, for the week of May 16-22, is highlighted by a trio of 20-year-old prospects in Willy Adames, Cody Bellinger and Jamie Westbrook, all of whom have excelled this season against older competition in their first tastes of the Double-A level.

Both Adames, No. 76 on the Top 100, and Westbrook collected six extra-base hits last week for Double-A Montgomery and Mobile, respectively, while Bellinger (No. 96) accrued five of his own for Tulsa and led the group with three home runs.

Here’s our complete Prospect Team of the Week:

C: Francisco Mejia, Indians (No. 8 prospect) 5 G, .348/.400/.522, 5 R, 1 2B, 1 HR, 5 RBIs, 2 BB, 3 K

Mejia collected multiple hits in three of his five games for Class A Lake County to finish the week tied for first among all catchers with eight hits and 12 total bases. The switch-hitting backstop has put up strong numbers this season in his return to the Midwest League, where he has a .311/.356/.444 slash line with 14 extra-base hits and 28 RBIs.

1B: Cody Bellinger, Dodgers (No. 5 prospect) 7 G, .429/.538/.952, 5 R, 2 2B, 3 HR, 5 RBIs, 5 BB, 3 K

Bellinger was sidelined with a hip injury for most of April and then went just 4-for-37 with zero extra-base hits in his first 11 games for Double-A Tulsa upon returning. The 2013 fourth-rounder began to find his groove last week, though, as five of his nine hits went for extra bases. On Sunday, Bellinger powered the Drillers to a 6-4 win over Northwest Arkansas with his go-ahead two-run homer in the top of the 11th inning.

2B: Jamie Westbrook, Diamondbacks …

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