De Leon 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.

We here at MLB Pipeline are running out of superlatives for Yankees catcher Gary Sanchez. Luckily for us, we’re running out of weeks for the Prospect Team of the Week.

Since he still qualifies as a prospect, Sanchez is on the PTOW for the second week in a row. He’s not alone in that honor. Giants prospect Austin Slater also used his red-hot bat to make this penultimate Team of the Week for his second straight time. He’s joined on this week’s squad by a Sacramento teammate and three others who are making repeat appearances on the roster, albeit not in consecutive weeks.

C: Gary Sanchez, New York Yankees (MLB)Yankees’ No. 5 prospect 6 G, .522/.607/.1.304, 7 R, 3 2B, 5 HR, 9 RBI, 5 BB, 2 SO

It wasn’t enough for Sanchez to hit four homers a week ago and earn American League Player of the Week honors. He had to go out and hit five more bombs and drive in nine more runs. In 22 Major League games (84 at-bats), the catcher has 11 home runs and 21 RBIs. Sanchez hit 10 homers in 284 Triple-A ABs. Those 11 homers with New York actually ties him for fifth among all AL catchers. He’s also thrown out six of nine would-be basestealers. This is Sanchez’s fourth turn on the Prospect Team of the Week.

1B: Casey Gillaspie, Durham Bulls (Triple-A)Rays’ No. 9 prospect 7 G, .345/.406/.793, 8 R, 2 2B, 1 3B, 3 HR, 8 RBI, 3 BB, 3 SO

Any time you begin a week with a four-hit, two-homer game, it’s going to be a good week. That’s exactly what the switch-hitting first baseman did, driving in four in that contest as well. Gillaspie finished the week with another long ball and three more RBIs. The 2014 first-rounder has hit well in Triple-A, especially in August, with a .299/.376/.505 line for the month.

2B: Joey Wendle, Nashville Sounds (Triple-A)A’s No. 28 prospect 6 G, .481/.481/.741, 5 R, 5 2B, 1 3B, 7 RBI, 6 SO

Like Gillaspie, Wendle opened last week with a four-hit performance, driving in three. He also had a three-hit game to finish the week, as well as a pair of two-hit contests. The second baseman now has an eight-game hitting streak going and has been hot in the second half, with a .327/.370/.537 line after the break.

3B: J.D. Davis, …

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