Prince of Queens Prospect Weekly: Rojas Keeps Mashing at Binghamton, Gill Hill Debuts at Triple-A
By Olivia Reed ·
Prince of Queens Prospect Weekly covers the last 7 days of action for the Mets farm system.
Rojas Won't Stop Hitting at Binghamton
Jefferson Rojas (AA, SS, Rank: 4) went 7-for-27 with two home runs, two doubles, four RBI, and four walks across his week at Binghamton, pushing his Double-A-with-the-Mets home run total to nine in just 130 plate appearances. The week included a game-tying double and his 17th homer of the season across both Double-A stops, continuing a stretch that has been productive in the Eastern League. Over the last 30 days at Binghamton, he is slashing with a .653 slugging mark and a .355 on-base percentage in 107 plate appearances, posting nine home runs, seven doubles, and 26 RBI against only 20 strikeouts. For a player with a 45 power grade on his scouting dossier, the 24-homer pace across 520 combined plate appearances this season shows a gap between expectation and output that warrants genuine attention.
Rojas came into this organization through trade and has shown no adjustment period. He is a 55 hit tool, contact-first infielder with a compact right-handed swing that stays in the zone, and the power output has arrived on top of the approach rather than at its expense. His 75.6% contact rate and 16.3% strikeout rate for the season are both real, and a 9.3% walk rate in the last 30 days shows the plate discipline holding even as pitchers try to pitch around him. He can be attacked by quality breaking balls that chase down and away, and the long-term defensive projection sits at second base rather than shortstop, but neither of those things is what anyone is talking about right now. At 21 years old, with this production at Double-A and a realistic case for a Syracuse promotion before the season closes, Rojas has positioned himself as the most compelling bat in the Mets system regardless of where he lines up defensively.
Gary Gill Hill Steps Up to Syracuse and Looks the Part
Gary Gill Hill (AAA, RHP, Rank: 14) made his Triple-A debut on September 6, one day after being assigned to Syracuse from Binghamton, and delivered five innings of one-run ball against International League competition, allowing six hits, one walk, and striking out four. He generated 14 whiffs on 85 pitches. The promotion itself came after a strong Binghamton finish: across five Double-A starts there, he posted a 3.76 ERA with 28 strikeouts and only five walks over 26.1 innings, a notable step up from his Montgomery numbers earlier this season. The thread connecting all of it is command. His 60-grade command grade is the clearest plus tool in the profile, and it is what allows a fastball that sits 94-98 without elite movement and a supporting cast of average-or-below secondaries to function at higher levels.
The knock on Gill Hill all season has been modest swing-and-miss production relative to his velocity, and that concern does not disappear at Syracuse. Across combined levels in 2026, he has 119 strikeouts but also 160 hits allowed in 139.2 innings, a contact-management profile that reflects a strike thrower more than a bat-misser. The four-seam, sinker, cutter, slider, and sweeper give him plenty of looks to offer, but they blur together at times without a clear finishing weapon, and hitters at Triple-A will be quicker to identify strikes than the Double-A opponents who gave up 28 strikeouts to him in Binghamton. The most likely outcome remains a back-end rotation spot or up-down long relief role, and a back-end starter projection is fair. His command is legitimate enough to make this Triple-A stint a genuine developmental test rather than a September cameo, and the first start cleared the bar comfortably.
Quick Hits
- Yovanny Rodriguez (A, C, Rank: 33) · hit two home runs across 10 plate appearances at Low-A St. Lucie, his 13th and 14th combined on the year between the Rookie and A levels. The power is arriving faster than the profile projected for a 19-year-old catcher in his first full-season assignment: he is slashing .461/.460 in slugging over 282 combined plate appearances with a 12.4% walk rate. The contact rate (57.7%) and strikeout rate (29.8% for the season) remain genuine development items, and his 35.3% strikeout rate over 102 plate appearances at St. Lucie shows the jump in competition has created swing-and-miss problems worth monitoring. Still, two home runs in a 10-plate-appearance week for a 19-year-old catcher will get attention.
- Jonah Tong (MLB, RHP, Rank: 3) · was recalled from Syracuse on September 7, adding to his MLB sample with the Mets. He carries a 4.80 ERA across 15 innings in four big-league appearances and a 4.54 ERA over 107 innings at Triple-A. The late-season callup gives him a chance to extend what has been a productive final stretch at Syracuse, and a rotation opportunity is within reach.
- Jonathan Santucci (AAA, LHP, Rank: 12) · turned in five innings of one-run ball at Syracuse, fanning six and generating 14 whiffs on just 67 pitches. The one-walk, efficient outing is the version that justifies a #3 starter projection: a 60-grade four-seamer that touches 97 tunneling into a plus slider, with enough feel to get through a lineup without giving away a free pass. The Triple-A ERA sits at 5.28 through seven starts, with a 13.4% walk rate at the level, so the command concern has not gone away. But 14 whiffs on 67 pitches shows what the ceiling looks like when everything connects.
- Billy Amick (AAA, 3B, Rank: 26) · went 3-for-12 with a home run and an RBI across his week at Syracuse. The counting line is modest, but the seasonal context is anything but: he now has 36 home runs in 493 plate appearances across three levels, with a .529 slugging mark for the year. The 60-grade power grade has played all season. The 62.5% contact rate and 29.6% strikeout rate remain the profile's friction point, but a 36-homer pace at 23 years old across Double-A and Triple-A puts him among the most productive power bats in the system.
- Jacob Reimer (AA, 3B, Rank: 7) · went 5-for-22 with a double and four RBI at Binghamton. It was a week by counting numbers, but the season context holds up: over his last 30 days at Double-A, he is hitting .303 with a 12.5% walk rate and a 19.2% strikeout rate, the disciplined, gap-oriented approach that defines his 50 hit, 55 power profile. The four RBI kept him productive even without extra-base damage beyond the double, and his 38.8% swing rate remains one of the more selective marks in the system.
- Elian Peña (A+, SS, Rank: 2) · had a rough week at Brooklyn, going 1-for-15 with a double, five strikeouts, and no walks across 15 plate appearances. He has been at High-A for only three weeks since his promotion from St. Lucie, and the level jump has brought real friction: he is slashing .164/.260/.224 in 77 Brooklyn plate appearances with a 31.2% strikeout rate, well above the 21.4% he posted at Low-A. The selective approach (43.3% swing rate) that defined his St. Lucie performance has gotten him into hitters' counts more often at Brooklyn, and the contact rate has dropped to 66.7% over the last 30 days. At 18, with a 55 hit tool and an advanced offensive foundation, this is the development challenge the promotion was meant to create, and the struggles are more expected than alarming.
- Aiden Robbins (A+, OF, Rank: 1) · went 3-for-14 with two walks and six strikeouts across 14 plate appearances at Brooklyn. The week was his second consecutive one at High-A. Over the last 30 days primarily at Low-A, he produced a .500 slugging mark and five home runs in 81 plate appearances, so the transition to Brooklyn has slowed things down. His season contact rate (72.7%) and 12.6% walk rate show the plate discipline and barrel feel are real, and a 36.4% strikeout rate in a small Brooklyn sample is worth watching rather than concluding anything from.
- Cameron Weston (MLB, RHP, Rank: 29) · was claimed off waivers from Baltimore and optioned to Syracuse, where he threw two scoreless innings with five strikeouts in his first appearance with the organization. His Triple-A ERA at Norfolk sat at 7.89 over 51.1 innings this year, so the 2.00 ERA (5 K, 0 BB) in his first Syracuse outing is a small but encouraging data point. Something to track as September continues.
- Jack Wenninger (AAA, RHP, Rank: 6) · allowed two earned runs over four innings at Syracuse, walking three and striking out five. He generated 11 whiffs on 76 pitches, but the 31-of-76 strike rate reflects the command volatility that has defined his Triple-A season. His ERA at Syracuse sits at 4.24 through 108.1 innings, a meaningful step back from his 2.92 ERA at Double-A Binghamton a year ago. The plus splitter gives him a genuine weapon, and his last-30-day strikeout rate of 34.7% at the Triple-A level shows the bat-missing is still there. The walk rate (15.3% over the last 30 days) is the number that keeps this profile from reaching its #4 starter projection with conviction.