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Several top Minor League Baseball prospects made notable contributions in their respective playoff and season finale games on Sunday. Among them, JJ Wetherholt, the St. Louis Cardinals’ leading prospect, hit his 10th home run at the Triple-A level for Memphis. This marked his 17th homer of the season and was part of a three-run day, highlighting his 15th multihit game since joining Memphis. After being promoted from Double-A Springfield—where he posted a .300 batting average, .425 on-base percentage, and .466 slugging percentage—Wetherholt recorded 58 hits in 47 Triple-A games, with 25 going for extra bases and maintaining a walk-to-strikeout ratio of 28-to-33. His performance this year earned him recognition as a finalist for MiLB Hitting Prospect of the Year honors.

Other standout performances included Leo De Vries of Double-A Midland (Oakland Athletics), who hit two home runs in Game 1 of the Texas League Championship Series. De Vries has maintained strong postseason numbers, going 7-for-12 with three homers and a postseason OPS nearing two.

Kevin McGonigle (Detroit Tigers) continued his productive stretch by nearly hitting for the cycle and scoring three runs for Double-A Erie in the Eastern League Finals opener. McGonigle ended the regular season with a .991 OPS and remained consistent through four postseason games.

For Triple-A Syracuse (New York Mets), Carson Benge capped off his season with a sixth-inning home run—his fifteenth overall—and improved his OPS against right-handed pitchers to .891 over recent games. Jett Williams also finished September strongly with his fifth homer of the month, totaling an .828 OPS between two minor league levels while stealing 34 bases.

On the pitching side, Jonathan Pintaro delivered five scoreless innings for Syracuse, allowing just two hits and striking out six batters. Pintaro’s rise has been notable since signing as an undrafted free agent last June; he climbed three minor league levels in consecutive seasons and struck out 103 batters over 82 innings pitched in 2025.

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