Minor League Baseball Weekend Recap - Week 11, 2026

A full weekend of Minor League Baseball. All is good in the world. While we just have a weekend of sample size for all levels, there are still things to take away even from players who have played just a few games!

Exit Velocity Leaders(Prospects Only)

Whiff Leaders(Prospects Only)

The Prospect Report

🚀 Weekend Standouts

Easton Shelton, 1B, Los Angeles Dodgers (A)

Stats: 5/11 4 HR

Why The Performance Matters:

Have a weekend, Easton Shelton! The Dodgers signed Shelton as an undrafted free agent back in 2023, and Shelton has largely been uninspiring for most of his career. That has changed this season as Shelton hit four home runs to bring his total up to 17 on the year in just 220 plate appearances.

While the power is off the charts, Shelton is slashing .272/.359/.607, which looks good, but he currently has a 35.5 percent strikeout rate. It is quite the profile and if there were savant sliders for Shelton, it would beam red on one end but then ice blue on the other.

Shelton has some of the best exit velocity data in the minors. We are looking at a 90th percentile exit velocity that ranks 99th percentile for all hitters, and he pairs it with a hard-hit rate north of 56 percent. The problem is that the contact and approach are bad.

Shelton is running an overall contact rate of 57 percent and is making contact on pitches in the zone at an abysmal 67 percent clip. The approach is not much better either. While it has improved, the chase rate is still worse than average.

While Shelton is young, and the power is intruiging, he is a hard player to buy into outside of deeper leagues due to the scary contact skills. -CC

Briggs McKenzie, LHP, Atlanta Braves (A/A+)

Stats:  5 IP/1 H/0 ER/1 BB/8 K

Why The Performance Matters:

McKenzie looks quite good at the complex in his three starts there and was quickly promoted to Single-A Augusta. He dominated in his start over the weekend and the org had already sent him to High-A Rome.

The Braves used savings on day one in the 2025 MLB Draft to grab two prep players in Briggs McKenzie and Connor Essenburg on day two. McKenzie was one of the better left-handed pitching prospects in the prep ranks and has plenty of projection on his 6’2” frame. McKenzie got a bonus just shy of $3 million.

The fastball has ticked up and currently sits around 93 mph, topping at 95 mph. He throws from a tough arm-slot but has average extension, while creating with 11 inches of arm-side run on the sinker. McKenzie runs spin rates near 2600 rpm and gets a good arm-side run.

The sweeper is McKenzie’s best pitch at present, sitting around 80 mph. He spins it up to 2900 rpm, and the pitch has around a negative five-inch IVB with 16 inches of sweeping action. There is also a changeup in the profile as McKenzie gets a heavy fade, of up to 18 inches of fading action, sitting in the mid-to-upper 80s.

The Braves organization clearly saw what they liked as McKenzie generated 11 whiffs and had a 38 percent CSW. He landed 68 percent of his pitches for strikes over the weekend and generated a 47 percent chase rate.

The 19-year-old will face much harder tests in High-A, but the arm talent is there. McKenzie has traits of a future top 100 prospect and he certainly looks the part when you watch him pitch. -CC

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