{"id":649346,"date":"2026-03-12T02:28:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T02:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/649346\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T02:28:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T02:28:18","slug":"dax-kilby-emerging-as-an-eye-popping-yankees-prospect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/649346\/","title":{"rendered":"Dax Kilby emerging as an eye-popping Yankees prospect"},"content":{"rendered":"

TAMPA \u2014 Spencer Jones\u2019 power is awe-inspiring<\/a>. George Lombard Jr. seems to do everything well<\/a>. Carlos Lagrange\u2019s velocity has become the talk of camp<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But arguably the most intriguing prospect the Yankees have will be seldom seen publicly during spring training outside of the Spring Breakout series.<\/p>\n

Dax Kilby is just 19, was in high school at this time last year and has a grand total of 19 professional games under his belt<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Those 19, though? With Class-A Tampa in August and September, when the shortstop hit .353 with an .898 OPS, walked (13 times) more often than he struck out (11), sprayed the ball around for a pair of doubles and a pair of triples and stole 16 bases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA \u2014 Spencer Jones\u2019 power is awe-inspiring. George Lombard Jr. seems to do everything well. Carlos Lagrange\u2019s velocity…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":649347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,179547,1266,405,403,2228,5226,5225,5228,5227,62,2225,170848,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-649346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-minor-leagues","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-spring-training","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116213848945821379","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}