Minor League Baseball Weekend Recap: Top 18 Dominant Performances (Week 17)

At the beginning of each week, I will provide a comprehensive breakdown of everything that happened across the landscape of Minor League Baseball. It might be a little overkill as I wrote far too much on the players that stood out on the weekend, but I hope it helps you better understand why a player performed as they did.

This report, each Monday, will feature the top 15-20 standouts beyond just the box score. I will dive into non-public pitch data and hitters’ statcast data as well. The goal is to help you find prospects that are breaking out early that you should be getting in on in your dynasty leagues.

Minor League Baseball Weekend Recap(Week 17)

Thomas White, LHP, Miami Marlins, 20, AA

White struggled as much as any arm in the Futures Game, and his first start back in a Blue Wahoos jersey. This weekend, White reminded everyone what made him one of the best left-handed pitching prospects in the game. On Saturday, White was nearly perfect across five innings of work. He allowed two hits, but did not issue a walk while striking out 14 batters.

The 23 whiffs White generated on Saturday paced all pitchers across pro baseball. He dominated with a big fastball from a low-effort delivery, currently sitting around 96, but has gotten up to 99, on occasion, playing better at the top of the zone with its ride. The pitch averaged nearly 16 inches of IVB from a sub-six-foot release height and high spin rates.

White already has an advanced changeup, which plays quite well with his fastball, having late dive-and-fade. The pitch features as much as 30 inches of vertical drop and consistently 15 inches of fade, making it a firm plus pitch, sitting around 86 mph.

The sweeper is White’s go-to swing-and-miss pitch, sitting between 78 and 83 mph with a ton of vertical movement plus sweeping action.

White has all the upside in the world, but has been limited at times by command and control. The 11.8 percent walk rate is a little high, but the good news is the overall strike rate is just shy of 62 percent, which is near average.

Robby Snelling, LHP, Miami Marlins, 21, AAA

While the strikeouts have been inconsistent throughout the 2025 season, Snelling has consistently kept runs off the scoreboard. This weekend, Snelling turned in his best start of the year, punching out 11 batters and generating an impressive 24 whiffs.

When you look at Snelling, his strong frame probably does not scream premium athlete. But he is an exceptional athlete who was a four-star linebacker recruit, heading to LSU for both baseball and football. He spent little time focusing on baseball alone until being drafted. While 2023 was incredible, 2024 was a step in the wrong direction as Snelling posted a 6.01 ERA and a 5.50 FIP in 73 innings with the Padres’ Double-A affiliate before being traded to Miami for Tanner Scott. He did make improvements over the final two months of the season with Miami.

What Snelling has shown in 2025 looks back to the level of arm talent we saw in 2023, when he was named Baseball America’s Minor League Pitcher of the Year. Sure, the surface numbers are not great at the moment as Snelling has a 4.03 ERA, but it does come with a 2.95 FIP and a 2.75 xFIP.

The fastball sat in the low 90s with 17+ inches of IVB from a 5’8” release height. Now, it is up to 95 mph on average with over 17 inches of IVB on average. Snelling gets seven to ten inches of arm-side movement with high spin rates for a four-seam and has shown the ability to miss bats.

His slider has some “slurvey” traits, having good depth and sweeping action. It's not quite a curveball, sitting in the low 80s, but it has a negative 5-inch IVB with eight to ten inches of horizontal. He is comfortable throwing it both in and out of the zone, getting whiffs and chasing. It runs away from left-handed hitters, but Snelling will also throw it to right-handers back foot on occasion. 

The changeup has played quite well, generating 14 inches of fade on average while working around 88 mph. The added fastball velocity allows the changeup play better now given the separation between the pitches.

With a strike rate of 66 percent and a walk rate of seven percent, Snelling looks the part of a high-end pitching prospect again.

Carson Benge, OF, New York Mets, 22, AA

Benge mashed in High-A with Brooklyn, putting up a .302/.417/.480 slash with four home runs and 15 stolen bases across 271 plate appearances. While it is easy to wonder where the home runs were, it is important to remember that playing in Brooklyn is brutal for hitters, especially lefties.

Benge did have 27 extra base hits while in High-A, but the power has exploded since joining Double-A Binghamton. We are just 96 plate appearances into Benge’s Double-A career, and he is already up to five home runs and has four doubles.

The exit velocities have taken a huge step forward this year, and Benge has a 90th percentile exit velocity north of 106 mph now and has quite a few batted balls over 110 mph.

The contact rates are plus, and Benge rarely expands the zone, running very low chase rates. The athlete is strong, and Benge is an above-average runner who is highly efficient on the base paths.

This looks like a legit top 50 prospect to me.

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