Spencer Jones is on a heater for the ages.
The top Yankees prospect clubbed three home runs in the first five innings for Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes Barre in Thursday’s clash against the Rochester Red Wings, turning heads from across the baseball world with the MLB trade deadline nearing.
Jones, the Yankees’ fourth-ranked prospect according to MLB Pipeline, now has 13 homers in 19 games since being promoted to Triple-A, making an increasingly compelling case to be called up to the bigs — or potentially boosting his trade value.
A 6-foot-7, 240-pound lefty outfielder, Jones kicked off his day by blasting a solo shot to the opposite field in the second at-bat of the game to give Scranton/Wilkes Barre a 1-0 edge.
Two innings later, Jones crushed yet another opposite-field solo homer which easily cleared the left-field wall.
With the attention of Yankees fans everywhere already captured, Jones added his third dinger of the day – a towering two-run shot to dead center in the fifth.
Then, as the cherry on top, he made a terrific sliding catch in center field to save a run in the bottom of the innings
Rochester emerged with a 10-8 win, though, with Jones’ finishing the day 3-for-5.
He struck out and popped out in his last two at-bats, respectively.
Jones, whom the Yankees selected 25th overall in the 2022 draft out of Vanderbilt, has tallied 28 homers in the minors this season with Scranton Wilkes-Barre and Double-A Somerset Patriots to go along with a .308 average and 1.079 OPS.
There has been much speculation about whether Jones could be used as a trade chip for the Yankees at the trade deadline to improve their major league roster.
The Post’s Greg Joyce reported this week that Jones’ rise had the Yankees questioning if they were willing to part with a player potentially on the verge of MLB stardom.
“I saw him take some two-strike pitches and go the other way to get a base hit or hit a double to left-center field,” an NL scout told Joyce of Jones’ growth. “I didn’t see that at all last year, where everything was try to pull and try to hit the ball out of the ballpark. And just way too much swing and miss. There’s still some swing and miss in there, but it’s getting better.”