Prince of Queens Prospect Weekly: Amick's Power Surge Shakes Binghamton, Voit Keeps Raking
By Olivia Reed ·
Five Bombs in a Week: Billy Amick Makes His Case at Double-A
Billy Amick (AA, 3B, Rank: 20) had a week that is genuinely hard to contextualize with a straight face. In 24 plate appearances for Binghamton, he went 8-for-24 with five home runs and 15 RBI, drawing five walks in the process while striking out just five times. For a player whose profile centers on pull-side power and whose hit tool carries real contact-rate concerns, this was a week where every question mark temporarily disappeared. Over his last 30 days at Double-A, he's slashing .304/.435/.725 with nine home runs and 28 RBI in 85 plate appearances. The power is no longer a theoretical projection; it's the loudest bat in the Eastern League right now.
The scouting picture on Amick is clear enough: 60 raw power, a 45 hit tool, and a swing built to do damage at the cost of contact. His season-long 62.2% contact rate and 121 strikeouts across 419 plate appearances remind you why the second-division projection exists. But the power has genuine big-league carrying potential, and what's changed over the past month is the walk rate accompanying the damage. Five free passes in this week's 24 PA fits a pattern: when pitchers try to pitch around him, he takes the walk instead of expanding. His combined line now shows 29 home runs in 95 games, good for a top-10 spot in all of minor league baseball. The contact profile has to hold up against better spin and sequencing, and that is still the legitimate ceiling question. For now, though, Amick is doing what a power-first prospect needs to do: making pitchers pay for every mistake while demonstrating enough discipline to make working around him costly.
Mitch Voit Is Not Adjusting to Double-A; He's Thriving
Twelve games into his Double-A tenure, Mitch Voit (AA, 2B, Rank: 9) is hitting .533/.618/.822 with eight doubles, a triple, a home run, and a 10-to-6 walk-to-strikeout ratio. This week alone he went 10-for-24 with five walks and three strikeouts in 24 plate appearances. The 30-day line at the Double-A level reads .421/.506/.605, and the contact rate over that stretch has jumped to 80.4%, a meaningful uptick from his season-long 75.1%. For a 21-year-old who posted a .242/.349/.396 line over 76 games at High-A Brooklyn before the promotion, the Binghamton offensive explosion was unexpected, which makes it more interesting.
Voit's profile is a 50 hit tool, 50 power, and 60 speed second baseman with an everyday projection built on on-base skill and baserunning. What he's doing at Double-A right now reads more like a ceiling peek than a steady-state. The 42 stolen bases across both levels this year are real, the walks have been consistent all season, and now the contact is spiking against Eastern League pitching. The main concern heading into Double-A was how he'd handle advanced breaking balls and premium velocity; 12 games in, the pitch selection has gotten sharper, not worse. Pitchers will make adjustments, and the .533 average will not last. The more relevant question is whether the underlying approach, patience, bat-to-ball feel, and speed stays intact when things get harder. Nothing from the first three weeks in Binghamton suggests they won't.
Quick Hits
- Elian Peña (A, SS, Rank: 1) · drove in 3 on 8 hits, including two doubles and two home runs, in 23 plate appearances, with two walks against seven strikeouts. The Mets' top prospect is slashing .338/.407/.584 over his last 30 days with four home runs at Low-A, and he's still 18 years old. A 50 hit tool, 50 power, and a left-handed swing with feel for the zone; the profile keeps checking every box.
- Aidan Smith (A+, OF, Rank: 8) · put up 8 hits, three home runs, and 6 RBI over 25 plate appearances this week, with 10 strikeouts that are becoming an unavoidable part of the conversation. Over the last 30 days in Brooklyn, he's slugging .703 with seven home runs in 75 plate appearances. The power grade sits at 45 on the scouting sheet; I'd take the over after two months of this. The strikeout rate (70.2% season-long contact rate) is the legitimate lever that determines whether he grows into a second-division regular or stays on the bench path his current projection suggests.
- Jefferson Rojas (AA, SS, Rank: 6) · had a well-rounded line of his week: 8 hits, a double, a triple, a home run, and 9 RBI in 26 plate appearances with just one strikeout. He's a 55 hit tool infielder with an aggressive approach, and the barrel control was on full display. Across 98 combined games this season, he's at .272/.338/.469 with 16 home runs, which already represents a significant power step from his 2025 Double-A struggles where he hit .164 with zero home runs in 172 plate appearances for Knoxville.
- Sammy Stafura (A+, SS, Rank: 11) · went 7-for-22 with three doubles across 22 plate appearances, extending a remarkable stretch. He's slashing .324/.378/.721 over the last 30 days at High-A with seven home runs and a 64% swing rate that borders on aggressive even by prospect standards. The contact rate sits at 63.4% and hasn't budged, which means the 19 home runs this season are coming with real swing-and-miss attached. The pop is genuine; the question is whether it plays when pitchers start hunting weaknesses at a higher level.
- R.J. Gordon (AA, RHP, Rank: 39) · turned in 7.0 innings of one-run ball with four strikeouts and one walk, his best outing of the season by some margin. Over the last 30 days he's posted a 3.68 ERA with 33 strikeouts in 29.1 innings, a stretch that looks nothing like his 5.19 ERA across 16 Binghamton starts on the year. A 55 slider and a mid-90s fastball with below-average command is still a long-reliever profile, but the recent form suggests he's found something in his delivery.
- Nicolas Carreno (A+, LHP, Rank: 27) · struck out 5 over 5.2 hitless innings, walking three but limiting the damage. He's posted a 2.29 ERA with 25 strikeouts and a 36.8% whiff rate over his last four High-A starts. The fastball sits 92-94 and the command is below average at 40, but the strikeout volume is real for a 20-year-old lefty; the up-down projection feels like a floor right now rather than a ceiling.
- Gary Gill Hill (AA, RHP, Rank: 15) · logged 11.1 innings over the week, allowing 4 earned runs on 8 hits with 9 strikeouts and 3 walks. His Binghamton ERA sits at 3.27 after two starts, a notable improvement from the 4.43 he carried at Montgomery in a different organization this year. A #4 starter profile built on above-average command and a heavy sinker/cutter mix; the 26-walk season across 119.1 innings keeps him relevant even when the whiff rate (23%) won't wow anyone.
- Chris Suero (AA, C, Rank: 13) · drew 5 walks to go with 4 hits, a double, and a home run in 25 plate appearances. The 63 walks against 121 strikeouts in 401 Double-A plate appearances this year tell the story: elite plate discipline for the position, 60 speed that feels almost absurd for a catcher, and a 40 hit tool that has to improve for the everyday dream to stay alive. He's been cold recently, slashing .181/.310/.347 over the last 30 days, so this week's walk total was doing a lot of the heavy lifting.
- Ryan Clifford (AAA, 1B, Rank: 3) · returned from a seven-day IL stint on August 9 and went 0-for-7 with five strikeouts in his first two games back. The year-long .182/.275/.358 line with 16 home runs in 415 Triple-A plate appearances is a difficult profile to project upward; more production after the IL return will be needed before the conversation shifts back toward a big-league call-up.
- Randy Guzman (A+, OF, Rank: 30) · landed on the seven-day IL on August 6, cutting short what had been his best stretch of the year: 11-for-28 over his last seven Brooklyn appearances with a homer, carrying a .393/.438/.536 line in 32 plate appearances at the level. He'd earned the promotion from Low-A with 12 home runs and a .514 slugging percentage in 247 plate appearances at St. Lucie; losing him to injury now is the worst timing possible.
- Cole Mathis (A+, 3B, Rank: 17) · was placed on the seven-day IL on August 11. He had gone just 1-for-11 in his three appearances at Brooklyn before the placement, though the larger context is a season that showed genuine thump earlier: seven home runs and a .765 slugging percentage in 66 plate appearances at Low-A Myrtle Beach, which earned him the promotion to Brooklyn in the first place.
- Jonathan Pintaro (MLB, RHP, Rank: 32) · was recalled from Triple-A Syracuse on August 10. He'd posted a 4.02 ERA with 47 strikeouts in 40.1 innings out of the Triple-A bullpen this season and carries a 4.70 ERA in 15.1 big-league innings. The recall likely reflects bullpen need more than a signal that his stuff has sharpened, but he's in the mix at the major league level.