The top performers roundup is always about big games, but to crack Sunday's list, they had to be real big, and a lot of them came courtesy of really big prospects. Three-homer game? Yep. Record strikeouts for your first seven outs of the game? Yep. Make Triple-A look easy? Another slot taken. The big names did big things in the Minor Leagues on Sunday:
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Jac Caglianone, 1B, Omaha (KC No. 1/MLB No. 10)
He's making this look too easy. The Royals top prospect has handled the transition to Triple-A with aplomb, homering in four consecutive games for Omaha. Caglianone's latest laser might have been his most impressive one yet, a titanic 108.6 mph, 459-foot left-on-left shot that landed on the concourse way beyond the right-field wall. It was Caglianone's 12th big fly in 43 games overall this season. Full story | Gameday
Ryan Ritter, SS, Albuquerque (COL No. 12)
Nobody touch Ritter right now. He might be radioactive. The 24-year-old infielder homered three times to fuel Triple-A Albuquerque's rout, registering the first three-homer game of his career and the first by an Isotopes player in nearly three seasons. Ritter socked two solo homers and a two-run shot out of the leadoff spot to extend an absolutely sizzling stretch. He's recorded at least one extra-base hit in 10 straight games and is hitting .467 with five homers, 15 RBIs and an otherwordly 1.091 slugging percentage during the streak. Gameday
Chase Burns, RHP, Chattanooga (CIN No. 1/MLB No. 11)
The second overall pick from last year's Draft kept the burners on high in his sixth start for Double-A Chattanooga, setting a career high with 10 strikeouts in another lights-out performance. Burns logged five innings of one-run ball and did not issue a walk. So far at Double-A, he's posting an eye-popping 45-3 strikeout-to-walk ratio along with a 1.86 ERA. Full story | Gameday
Travis Sykora, RHP, Wilmington (WSH No. 1/MLB No. 62)
You can't start a game on the mound much better than Sykora did, and his final line reflects that. The 6-foot-6 right-hander recorded his first seven outs via strikeout en route to a season-high nine K's and four scoreless innings in a sensational debut for High-A Wilmington. The 21-year-old has been pretty untouchable since returning from an offseason hip injury, allowing only one run in 15 innings across three levels. Gameday
Trey Yesavage, RHP, Vancouver (TOR No. 2/MLB No. 71)
After overpowering the competition at Single-A, the talented Yesavage has quickly acclimated to High-A too. The 21-year-old righty put on a clinic for missing bats in his second start for Vancouver, striking out nine over four one-hit shutout innings. He punched out five straight batters at one point, though he did issue three walks. Still, it's been a smooth transition for last year's 20th overall pick. Yesavage has racked up 19 strikeouts in eight innings over his first two starts for Vancouver. Gameday
Bryce Rainer, SS, Lakeland (DET No. 3/MLB No. 47)
Inside-the-park-home-runs always come with an element of "weird," but Rainer may never hit another dinger like this one at Single-A Lakeland. The 19-year-old never stopped running when his line drive into the right-field corner wedged underneath the wall, and by the time umpires confirmed the ball never left the field of play, he'd sprinted all the way around the bases. It added to a fine all-around game in which Rainer collected three hits, drove in four runs and scored twice. Gameday
Brennan Milone, 1B, Midland (ATH No. 23)
This slugger for the Double-A RockHounds likes to hit homers in bunches. Milone had five long balls through his first 37 games, and now has five in the past four contests and they've all come in two games. Three days after he put together a three-homer game May 22, a pair of three-run shots gave him a career-high six RBIs on the night. Gameday
Cole Schoenwetter, RHP, Daytona (CIN No. 26)
Opposite rehabbing Quinn Mathews (STL No. 2), the 20-year-old Schoenwetter more than held his own, striking out a career-high eight batters across four innings of two-run ball for Single-A Daytona. It was the most complete performance of the season for the right-hander, who Cincinnati drafted in the fourth round out of the California prep ranks in 2023. Gameday