Prince of Queens Prospect Weekly: Rojas Keeps Mashing at Binghamton, Wenninger Returns Sharp
By Olivia Reed ·
Prince of Queens Prospect Weekly covers the last 7 days of action for the Mets farm system.
Jefferson Rojas Keeps Mashing at Binghamton
Jefferson Rojas (AA, SS, Rank: 4) went 6-for-21 with three home runs and six RBI across his week in Binghamton, continuing a stretch of production that makes him one of the more interesting names in the Eastern League. The week was not an isolated blip. Over the last 30 days at Double-A, he's slashing .267/.333/.533 with five home runs, seven doubles, a triple, and 20 RBI in 102 plate appearances. He arrived in the Mets organization via trade and has done nothing to suggest he needs an adjustment period. A contact bat with a 55 hit tool and a compact right-handed swing that stays in the zone, Rojas was always expected to hold his own with the bat. The power output is the part that complicates any easy description of the profile.
Rojas came into 2026 with a 45 power grade, and he now has 20 home runs in 470 combined plate appearances between Knoxville and Binghamton. The gap power that scouts expected has arrived with something extra. His 76% contact rate and 8.7% walk rate hold up even as the power has ticked upward, which is meaningful because it suggests the added loft is coming without sacrificing the approach that makes the hit tool work. He can be beaten by quality breaking balls that finish down, and his long-term home is likely second base or a utility role rather than shortstop, but neither of those concerns touches what he's doing at the plate right now. At 21, with this production at Double-A and a legitimate shot at a promotion to Syracuse before the season ends, Rojas has positioned himself as the most productive recent Mets trade acquisition and one of the better offensive prospects in the system.
Jack Wenninger Returns With a Hitless Outing
Jack Wenninger (AAA, RHP, Rank: 11) returned from a seven-day IL stint and threw 4.2 hitless innings against Syracuse's International League opponents, walking two and striking out six. He generated 13 whiffs on 71 pitches. For a starter carrying a 4.17 ERA and some command volatility across his Triple-A season, a line like this on a return outing carries real weight. The 30-day numbers have been rougher: a 7.13 ERA across 17.2 innings at the Triple-A level with elevated walk rates and a home run problem that traces directly to those stretch commands. The IL stint, though brief, coincided with a clean, sharp mechanical outing here.
Wenninger's profile centers on a plus splitter that functions as his primary out pitch against both sides of the plate, paired with a solid-average fastball in the 93-96 range and a slider that flashes usefulness. When the splitter is sharp and he's tunneling it off the four-seamer, the sequence is difficult to handle. The concern through most of 2026 has been the gaps: the walk rate at Triple-A sits at 13.3%, and without consistently sharp breaking ball depth to complement the splitter, he can fall into stretches where contact damage piles up quickly. A hitless 4.2-inning outing provides the reset the profile needed. The path to a big-league role as a back-end starter or multi-inning arm is still real, but it runs through finding that version of himself more than once every few weeks.
Quick Hits
- Aidan Smith (A+, OF, Rank: 10) · collected 6 hits, a homer, and 2 RBI across 25 plate appearances, drawing six walks against eight strikeouts. The counting line undersells what is happening across the broader stretch: over the last 30 days at Brooklyn, he's slashing .325/.430/.602 with seven home runs and 17 RBI in 100 plate appearances. A 50 power grade with a 60 speed tool and above-average arm, Smith is producing damage at a rate that puts pressure on a 45 hit tool evaluation. The swing-and-miss is still there, a 30.2% strikeout rate on the season, but a 37.3% swing rate over the last month shows a more selective approach beginning to sharpen the contact window. His 15 home runs for the season are already past his 2025 total, and he hasn't played a full month at Double-A yet.
- Billy Amick (AAA, 3B, Rank: 23) · hit 3 home runs and drove in 4 across 19 plate appearances in his first week at Triple-A Syracuse, posting 4 hits with 7 strikeouts and an HBP. He's now at 33 home runs on the season across Double-A and Triple-A, with a .256/.348/.667 slash over his last 30 days at the Double-A level. The 39.3% strikeout rate at Triple-A is a legitimate concern, and the walk rate dropped to 3.6% in that initial sample. The 60 raw power grade looks conservative looking at the results, and Triple-A pitchers will get to learn what Mets pitchers already knew: when Amick gets a mistake, it leaves the building.
- Émilien Pitre (AAA, 2B, Rank: 35) · put up 7 hits, a double, a triple, and 4 walks in 27 plate appearances at Syracuse, striking out just three times. At Triple-A over 36 plate appearances this season, he's slashing .300/.400/.433 with a contact rate sitting at 84.1%. A 35 power grade with fringe pop, Pitre's path to big-league value runs through the on-base skill and speed, and the 34 stolen bases he's posted across levels in 2026 confirm the 55 speed grade is accurate. The Mets acquired him from Tampa Bay in early August alongside Smith and Gary Gill Hill, and Pitre was pushing Triple-A within two weeks of joining the organization. The hit-over-power ceiling is real, but the floor is a multi-positional second baseman who gets on base at a useful clip.
- Trey Snyder (A+, SS, Rank: 37) · went 9-for-25 with a homer and 11 RBI without drawing a walk in his week at Brooklyn. Eleven RBI in 25 plate appearances is an eye-catching number, and he's been one of the more productive run-producers in High-A over the last month, slashing .272/.327/.359 over his last 30 days with 22 RBI in 104 plate appearances. The 2025 season at Low-A saw Snyder post 41 steals in 512 plate appearances with only 5 home runs; the 2026 version still doesn't hit for much power, but the 40 power grade on the scouting sheet may be fair. The RBI production is real and the 60 competitiveness grade shows up in how he plays, but there's still no carrying plus tool in the profile.
- Yovanny Rodriguez (A, C, Rank: 16) · launched 3 home runs across 17 plate appearances at St. Lucie, driving in 4 with a walk against 8 strikeouts. His contact rate over the last 30 days has tightened at 52.4%, which is still low, though the 50.1% swing rate and aggressive approach are working better against Low-A arms than the 38.2% strikeout rate suggests. Eleven home runs in 248 plate appearances across FCL and A-ball at 19 years old, with a 55 arm and a plus defensive profile behind the dish, is a developmental arc worth patience. The swing has to catch up to upper-level velocity and spin, but the raw traits are legitimate.
- R.J. Gordon (AA, RHP, Rank: 38) threw 6 innings of shutout ball at Binghamton, giving up 4 hits, walking 3, and striking out 5. It extended a strong recent stretch: over his last 30 days, Gordon's ERA sits at 2.10 with a 0.93 WHIP across 30 innings and 28 strikeouts. His average fastball and above-average slider-changeup combination play up when he's throwing strikes consistently, and the 6.8% walk rate over that stretch is the version of Gordon that can hold a rotation spot. The season ERA of 4.75 with Binghamton reflects earlier struggles, but the last month looks like a different pitcher.
- Eli Serrano III (AA, OF, Rank: 18) · returned from a 60-day IL stint and went 2-for-7 with 2 home runs across two games since activation, with 2 strikeouts in 8 plate appearances. Serrano posted a .196/.307/.367 line across 239 plate appearances with Binghamton before the IL placement in mid-June, with contact-rate and platoon split concerns following him from his 2025 season at Brooklyn. The 45 hit and 45 power grades reflect the uncertainty. Two home runs in two games back is an encouraging return, but the full-season track record at Double-A demands more before the profile reassesses.
- Jonah Tong (AAA, RHP, Rank: 3) · posted 5.2 innings of shutout ball against International League competition, giving up 3 hits, walking 2, and striking out 3. Over his last 30 days, the ERA sits at 2.66 in 23.2 innings at Triple-A, a significant step forward from his season-long 4.86 mark at that level. Tong has a plus fastball in the 95-97 range and a plus changeup that form a legitimate bat-missing combination, and when the command is average or better, the results look like a mid-rotation arm. He's logged three big-league appearances in 2026 and will almost certainly see more before September is finished.
- Gabe Davis (AA, RHP, Rank: 25) · was sharp in his most recent Binghamton appearance, allowing 1 hit over 3.2 innings with 7 strikeouts and 2 walks. His ERA at Binghamton sits at 2.61 in three appearances after putting up an 8.31 ERA in 10 starts with Birmingham earlier in the year. A plus fastball in the 96-100 range and a potentially plus slider make the stuff unquestionable; the command and health history are what keep a setup reliever projection from sounding more optimistic. That Binghamton line suggests the slider is sharp right now.
- Jonathan Santucci (AAA, LHP, Rank: 13) · threw 5 innings of two-run ball at Syracuse, striking out 7 against a single walk and 5 hits. His 145 strikeouts across both levels in 2026 lead the organization's pitching staff, and the season-long numbers at Double-A (3.57 ERA, 32.0% K rate in 90.2 innings) were legitimately good before the promotion. The Triple-A results have been rougher, with a 6.63 ERA and 18.5% walk rate in his first five starts at the level. A plus fastball and plus slider give him real upside, but the command volatility is the gap between the current results and a mid-rotation ceiling.