Leo De Vries, SS, Athletics: De Vries has carried his momentum from a red-hot spring into the start of the season with Double-A Midland, and that continued on Sunday when he clubbed his first two homers of the season in a 5-1 win over Frisco. Both of the switch-hitter's longballs came from the left side. He homered off Rangers RHP David Davalillo to open the game, then tagged RHP Janser Lara again in the ninth inning. The No. 10 prospect in baseball, De Vries is hitting .333/.429/.528 with six walks and eight strikeouts through nine games in his return to Midland.

Theo Gillen, OF, Rays: Gillen hit his way onto the Top 100 Prospects rankings with a solid season at Low-A Charleston last year. So far, he has been much better for High-A Bowling Green. Gillen homered twice on Sunday after also hitting a pair of home runs on Saturday, giving him four in the span of a weekend.

That total leaves him just one shy of the five home runs he hit all of last season. He reached the scoreboard above the right field wall in the first inning Sunday, then cleared the ad wall in the right-center power alley in the third.

Gillen now leads the South Atlantic League with four home runs, a .889 slugging percentage, nine RBIs, a 1.308 OPS and 24 total bases.

Cole Carrigg, SS, Rockies: Carrigg went 3-for-5 with a triple, his first home run of the season and two stolen bases in a wild 19-12 win over Triple-A El Paso. The game was tied 9-9 after nine innings before the Isotopes sent their first nine hitters to the plate in a 10-run 10th.

Carrigg had two chances to complete the cycle in that inning, needing only a double. Instead, he was hit by a pitch in his first plate appearance and later flew out to center.

He opened the night with a single and stolen base in the first, then ripped a 102.6 mph triple to left-center to drive in two in the second. He was plunked again and swiped his 10th base of the season in the fourth before launching a 110.1 mph, 438-foot homer to center in the sixth.

Perhaps most notably, Carrigg did it all while playing shortstop. Drafted as a catcher/shortstop/center fielder, he focused primarily on the outfield last season but has regained his defensive versatility in 2026, seeing regular time in both center field and shortstop.

Braden Montgomery, OF, White Sox: Since homering on Opening Day, Double-A Birmingham outfielder Braden Montgomery had gone 3-for-26 without an extra-base hit. He snapped out of that slump in a big way Sunday, homering twice against Chattanooga.

Both blasts went to straightaway center field. The first came one pitch after Samuel Zavala led off the bottom of the first with a home run.

It marked the second two-homer game of Montgomery’s pro career. His first came May 6 of last year with High-A Winston-Salem. He’s now hitting .212/.349/.485 on the season.

Walker Jenkins, OF, Twins: Jenkins had been off to a slow start in 2026, but he showed signs of turning it around on Sunday.

Jenkins entered the day with just five hits in nine games, slashing .172/.351/.207. He went 3-for-4 with a walk and two stolen bases against Toledo, raising his line to .242/.405/.273. As his on-base percentage attests, Jenkins is getting plenty of walks. He has a 19% walk rate this year with eight walks in 10 games. But he hasn't hit for power. His March 29 double is his only extra-base hit of the season so far.

Luis Peña, SS, Brewers: With High-A Wisconsin playing a doubleheader against Quad Cities, Peña took advantage to have a day to remember. Peña went 2-for-4 with his fifth steal of the season in Game 1, and then added three more hits in Game 2, including a double and a triple.

Peña didn't even start Game 2, but he entered in the second inning as a pinch runner for Daniel Guilarte. Peña lined a two-run triple down the right field line in his first at-bat of the game. He then yanked a double down the right field line to drive in his third run in two at-bats. He then singled to right field in the seventh to cap a perfect game at the plate.

Peña is now hitting .500/.593/.650 in six games this season. He's currently second in the Midwest League in batting average.

Noah Schultz, LHP, White Sox: Schultz is set to make his MLB debut on Tuesday against Shane McClanahan and the Rays. Schultz has been excellent in three starts for Triple-A Charlotte this year. He has yet to allow more than two hits in any start, and he has a 40.4% strikeout rate to just a 4.2% walk rate. His four-seamer has sat 95-97 mph, but he has also shown an ability to mix his pitches. His low-80s curveball was his best pitch in his most recent start, but he relied much more on his cutter and changeup in his previous start. He also works in a sinker and a slider.

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Sheng-En Lin, RHP, Reds: Once a two-way player, Reds righthander Sheng-En Lin focuses entirely on pitching these days, and on days like Sunday, that's bad news for the opposing lineup.

Lin held Low-A Lakeland hitless for five innings, as he walked two and struck out five in five innings. Lin only allowed one runner to reach second base, as he got six whiffs on his fastball and another on his slider. Lin's fastball has enough life to get swings and misses at the top of the zone, but he does take a while to get to his velocity.

In the first inning, Lin was sitting 88-90 mph with his fastball. He started getting to 91 mph in the second inning. By the fourth inning he was getting to 92-93 mph and in the fifth he touched 93.7 mph.

Quick Hits

Prospect news and notes from around baseball…

• Kevin McGonigle hit his first big league home run on Sunday.

• Red Sox outfielder Allan Castro had a two-homer day on Sunday for Triple-A Worcester.

• In the same game, Boston LHP Payton Tolle fired five shutout innings with six strikeouts and just one walk.

• After 5.2 scoreless innings on Sunday for Triple-A Gwinnett, Braves RHP JR Ritchie owns a 1.27 ERA with 20 strikeouts and 10 walks through 21.1 innings.

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