{"id":161047,"date":"2026-03-12T02:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T02:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/161047\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T02:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T02:33:09","slug":"dax-kilby-emerging-as-an-eye-popping-yankees-prospect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/161047\/","title":{"rendered":"Dax Kilby emerging as an eye-popping Yankees prospect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA \u2014 Spencer Jones\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/10\/sports\/spencer-jones-gives-yankees-another-loud-reminder-of-his-tantalizing-promise\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">power is awe-inspiring<\/a>. George Lombard Jr. <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/08\/sports\/george-lombard-jr-shows-off-defensive-versatility-triples-in-impressive-yankees-showing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">seems to do everything well<\/a>. Carlos Lagrange\u2019s velocity has <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/05\/sports\/carlos-lagrange-has-all-the-makings-of-a-great-yankee\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">become the talk of camp<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But arguably the most intriguing prospect the Yankees have will be seldom seen publicly during spring training outside of the Spring Breakout series.<\/p>\n<p>Dax Kilby is just 19, was in high school at this time last year and has a grand total of <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/13\/sports\/mlb-draft-yankees-select-shortstop-dax-kilby-in-first-round\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">19 professional games under his belt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Those 19, though? With Class-A Tampa in August and September, when the shortstop hit .353 with an .898 OPS, walked (13 times) more often than he struck out (11), sprayed the ball around for a pair of doubles and a pair of triples and stole 16 bases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA \u2014 Spencer Jones\u2019 power is awe-inspiring. George Lombard Jr. seems to do everything well. Carlos Lagrange\u2019s velocity&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[21522,20,9,11,10,321,319,428,55941],"class_list":["post-161047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-minor-leagues","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-spring-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}