Here are Friday's top prospect performances from the Minors

We hope you like homers because Friday’s Minor League action had a whole lot of ‘em. From coast to coast, some of the game’s premier prospect sluggers brought out the big bats -- but none more than Lazaro Montes, who walloped a 475-foot tater at Double-A. Not to be outdone, the Mets’ Jonah Tong continued his remarkable 2025 with yet another gem, extending his MiLB strikeout lead. Here’s the best from the night that was:

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Lazaro Montes, OF, Arkansas (SEA No. 2/MLB No. 31)
Montes became the first Minor Leaguer to reach the 20-homer plateau this season and he did it in monstrous fashion, demolishing his second Double-A roundtripper 475 feet. The 20-year-old has delivered an OPS north of .900 in each of the first three months of the year, but has turned the dial up in June with nine homers, putting him just two away from setting a new career high. He has a .575 slugging percentage across two levels and has done it all without facing a pitcher younger than him once in 2025. Gameday

Kevin Alcántara, OF, Iowa (CHC No. 3/MLB No. 67); James Triantos, 2B/OF, Iowa (CHC No. 5)
Iowa’s lineup has been one of Minor League Baseball’s most potent in 2025 and the duo of Alcántara and Triantos have had a large part in that. Both slugged homers Friday, with Alcántara’s three-run roundtripper in the fifth serving as the go-ahead shot. Between the two, they combined for seven RBIs and seven runs scored. While the power has been slow to come around for Alcántara in June, he’s delivered a .370 on-base percentage across 19 games; Triantos has been on a heater over his past 11 contests, slashing .311/.347/.556. Gameday

Jackson Ferris, LHP, Tulsa (LAD No. 5/MLB No. 56)
Ferris turned in his best outing of 2025 against a stout lineup packed with Rangers prospects. MLB’s fifth-ranked LHP prospect spun six scoreless frames, accumulating seven strikeouts and 13 whiffs. After an impressive seven-start run at Double-A last year, it’s been a tough go of it for Ferris in 2025 (5.55 ERA in 14 outings), although he has still racked up 10.4 K/9 as a 21-year-old. Gameday

Jonah Tong, RHP, Binghamton (NYM No. 4/MLB No. 93)
Another start, another Tong gem. The 22-year-old racked up eight strikeouts across six frames of one-run ball, retiring eight of the first nine batters he faced. Tong has allowed one run or fewer in 10 of his past 11 starts and is holding batters to a .137 average overall this season. By virtue of staying healthy -- and dominating at both of his stops -- he’s beginning to create some separation for first place in the MiLB strikeout race at 115 in just 73 innings pitched. Gameday

Ryan Waldschmidt, OF, Amarillo (AZ No. 3/MLB No. 92)
It was a wild one in HODGETOWN, home to Double-A Amarillo, and Waldschmidt was right at the heart of it. The 31st overall pick in the 2024 Draft arrived at the level earlier this week, and after getting his first hit out of the way Wednesday, he added his first homer Friday. Between High-A and Double-A, Waldschmidt has racked up 10 homers and 10 steals, joining Jordan Lawlar as the only D-backs Minor Leaguers to reach those marks thus far in 2025. Gameday

Joe Mack, C, Jacksonville (MIA No. 5/MLB No. 95)
It was a huge night for Mack both with the catcher’s equipment on and with the bat in his hands. He helped lead four Jacksonville pitchers to the club’s first nine-inning regular-season no-hitter in 25 years, while clubbing a home run for the second straight night. To boot, he added three singles, which matches his career high of four hits. Over his past four games, Mack is 9-for-18 with 16 total bases. Full story | Gameday

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Zac Veen, OF, Albuquerque (COL No. 6)
The virtues of hitting in the Pacific Coast League are no secret, but that won’t dampen the excitement around back-to-back four-hit performances for Veen in the slightest. Three of his knocks Friday came in excess of 95+ mph and the eight hits in his past nine at-bats has raised his batting average 40 points. Having gotten a 12-game taste of The Show earlier this year, the 2020 first-rounder continues to make his case for a second spin with 42 hits -- including 16 of the extra-base variety -- in 36 games at Triple-A. Gameday

Kendry Rojas, LHP, Dunedin (TOR No. 8)
Rojas has been nothing short of dominant during his Single-A rehab stint as he comes back from a midsection injury that delayed his start to the year. The southpaw turned in his best start of 2025, spinning five hitless frames with nine strikeouts for Dunedin. Over his past four outings, he’s yet to allow a run. On the season, he holds a 1.00 ERA and 0.83 WHIP across six appearances in the Florida Coast and Florida State Leagues. Gameday