Spencer Jones is on a heater for the ages.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The top Yankees prospect clubbed three home runs in the first five innings for Triple-A Scranton\/Wilkes Barre in Thursday\u2019s clash against the Rochester Red Wings, turning heads from across the baseball world with the MLB trade deadline nearing.<\/p>\n
Jones, the Yankees\u2019 fourth-ranked prospect according to MLB Pipeline, now has 13 homers in 19 games since being promoted to Triple-A, making an increasingly compelling case to be called up to the bigs \u2014 or potentially boosting his trade value.<\/p>\n
A 6-foot-7, 240-pound lefty outfielder, Jones kicked off his day by blasting a solo shot to the opposite field in the second at-bat of the game to give Scranton\/Wilkes Barre a 1-0 edge.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Two innings later, Jones crushed yet another opposite-field solo homer which easily cleared the left-field wall.<\/p>\n
Spencer Jones launching his third home run of the day. @MLB\/X<\/p>\n
With the attention of Yankees fans everywhere already captured, Jones added his third dinger of the day \u2013 a towering two-run shot to dead center in the fifth.<\/p>\n
Then, as the cherry on top, he made a terrific sliding catch in center field to save a run in the bottom of the innings<\/p>\n
Rochester emerged with a 10-8 win, though, with Jones\u2019 finishing the day 3-for-5.<\/p>\n
He struck out and popped out in his last two at-bats, respectively.<\/p>\n
Spencer Jones celebrates his homer. @MLB\/X<\/p>\n
Jones, whom the Yankees selected 25th overall in the 2022 draft out of Vanderbilt, has tallied 28 homers in the minors this season with Scranton Wilkes-Barre and Double-A Somerset Patriots to go along with a .308 average and 1.079 OPS.\u00a0<\/p>\n
There has been much speculation about whether Jones could be used as a trade chip for the Yankees at the trade deadline to improve their major league roster.<\/p>\n
Spencer Jones posing for a photo at Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, Florida. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n