Here are Tuesday's top prospect performances from the Minors

What is it about September that makes people burst into song? There’s “September Morn” and “September in the Rain” and even “Wake Me Up When September Ends,” but none of those quite reference that the Minors have stormed into the month with vim and vigor. And that's what we saw in full force on Tuesday. There are also lots of songs about holidays, although none topping the charts about any members of the Holliday family, at least yet. Ethan Holliday, this July’s No. 4 overall pick (Rockies), entered the pantheon of pros to have a professional homer, leading the way among the night’s top performers.

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Ethan Holliday, SS, Fresno (COL No. 1/MLB No. 17)
You knew the power would show up eventually. MLB Pipeline doesn't hand out 65-grade power tools to high schoolers often, after all. But pro homer No. 1 for the latest member of the Holliday baseball dynasty was still majestic. The Rockies’ 2025 first-rounder evened the score for Single-A Fresno in the seventh when he crushed a two-run shot to his pull side. It’s been a tough acclimation to the pro ranks for the 18-year-old, but he’s posted a .338 on-base percentage across 14 games and entered the night with a 57.1 percent opposite-field rate for balls put into play, showing a dedication to using the entire field. Gameday

Josue De Paula, OF, Great Lakes (LAD No. 1/MLB No. 12)
After missing more than three weeks with an unspecified injury, it took De Paula a few games to get back into the swing of things for High-A Great Lakes. He’s since ripped off a five-game hit streak (including three multihit contests) and delivered his first performance of the season with three extra-base hits. De Paula smoked a line-drive homer in the first -- his career-high 11th of the year -- and added a pair of doubles later in the contest, raising his Loons OPS to .810 across 93 games. The 2025 SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game MVP has excelled against southpaws this year, posting a .305 average and .910 OPS with more walks (20) than strikeouts (14). Gameday

Walker Jenkins, OF, St. Paul (MIN No. 1/MLB No. 14)
With the Orioles’ Samuel Basallo called up to the big leagues, Jenkins has taken the mantle as the youngest player in the Triple-A International League. While it was a rough acclimation to life in the batter's box with St. Paul over the first week, the 20-year-old broke through in a big way with his seventh three-hit performance of the season. It marked the fourth level that the 2023 first-rounder has played at this year after initially missing time with ankle injuries, but when healthy, he’s proven to be a force: 142 wRC+, .289/.415/.455 slash line and a 27.2 percent line-drive rate. Gameday

Trey Yesavage, RHP, Buffalo (TOR No. 1/MLB No. 25)
MLB’s No. 3 RHP prospect found himself in the unique spot of working behind opener Paxton Schultz in his latest Triple-A Buffalo outing, entering the game in the second inning. If that change of pace affected Yesavage, it sure didn’t show in his production. As the Blue Jays attempt to keep the workload in check for their 2024 first-rounder in his first professional season, he was limited to just three innings and 54 pitches but did not allow a run and struck out six. After giving up a leadoff double, he retired seven batters in a row, including strikeouts of rehabbing big leaguers Francisco Alvarez and Jose Siri. On the season, the 22-year-old is up to 156 punchouts across 94 2/3 innings (14.8 K/9) and is holding opposing batters to a .164 average across four levels. Gameday

Cam Collier, 3B, Chattanooga (CIN No. 6/MLB No. 96)
A rollercoaster season for Collier arguably reached its apex in his latest outing for Double-A Chattanooga as he ripped a walk-off RBI double to cap a three-hit performance. After striking out his first time up, the Reds’ 2022 first-rounder went double, walk, RBI single, RBI double, delivering both the game-tying and game-winning knocks. Collier has been locked in over his past 14 contests, slashing .396/.517/.542 with eight RBIs. Gameday

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Miguel Ullola, RHP, Sugar Land (HOU No. 5)
Tasked with starting opposite MLB Pipeline’s preseason No. 1 overall prospect Roki Sasaki, Ullola went pitch-for-pitch and then some. For the second time this year, he exited a start without allowing a hit. This time, he made it through a season-high-tying six frames with seven strikeouts for Triple-A Sugar Land. Across 24 appearances, the 23-year-old has held opposing batters to a .179 average. Ullola, who sports a 70-grade fastball, leads all Astros Minor Leaguers with 122 strikeouts this season. Gameday

Elmer Rodriguez-Cruz, RHP, Somerset (NYY No. 5)
When the Yankees and Red Sox made an offseason swap of catcher Carlos Narváez and Rodriguez-Cruz, it didn’t grab many headlines. But while Narváez has blossomed for Boston, the 22-year-old hurler has emerged into one of the Minors’ most electric arms, moving into second place among all hurlers with 158 punchouts following an eight-strikeout performance for Double-A Somerset. The native of Puerto Rico delivered his ninth scoreless outing of the year, lowering his ERA to 2.47 across 24 appearances. Gameday

Connelly Early, LHP, Worcester (BOS No. 6)
Before Early could settle into his latest start for Triple-A Worcester, he had runners at second and third with nobody out to start the game. But the 23-year-old went on a run of 15 consecutive batters retired en route to posting a career-high 10 strikeouts. Early got a whopping 20 swings-and-misses across his six innings of one-run ball, scattering three hits without any walks. It’s been a breakout campaign for the 2023 fifth-rounder, who has posted a 2.60 ERA across two levels this season with 132 punchouts across 100 1/3 frames, just one K behind Payton Tolle (BOS No. 2) for the most among all Red Sox Minor Leaguers. Gameday

Mitch Voit, 2B, St. Lucie (NYM No. 9)
While the Mets’ 2025 first-rounder has made his presence felt defensively to get his pro career underway, he had yet to put his stamp on the game with his bat. That all changed in his 19th game for Single-A St. Lucie. Voit walked and promptly stole a bag in the first, setting the tone for what was eventually a three-hit, four-steal, four-run performance. The cherry on top was an opposite-field home run in the fifth which marked his first as a professional after 35 roundtrippers across three seasons for the University of Michigan. The performance marked Voit’s first game action in nearly a week and gave him 11 steals (on 11 attempts) in the Mets system. Gameday