{"id":793391,"date":"2026-05-13T12:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T12:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/793391\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T12:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T12:12:13","slug":"padres-minors-ethan-salas-homers-again-back-in-mlb-coms-top-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/793391\/","title":{"rendered":"Padres minors: Ethan Salas homers again, back in MLB.com’s top-100"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ethan Salas<\/strong> is back in MLB.com\u2019s top-100<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He keeps homering. Of course, he\u2019s back.<\/p>\n

The 19-year-old catcher hit his sixth home run on Tuesday in Double-A San Antonio\u2019s 8-3 win<\/a> over visiting Wichita.<\/p>\n

The home run was Salas\u2019 only hit in five at-bats and it drove in two runs, pushing his RBI total to 20 through 29 games.<\/p>\n

The home run was also Salas\u2019 sixth since hitting his first home run on April 24. He missed all but 10 games last year with a back injury and didn\u2019t get back into game action until spring training.<\/p>\n

Salas is hitting .314\/.388\/.559 to start his third trip through the Texas League. Because he struggled at high Single-A Fort Wayne as one of the youngest players in the Midwest League in 2024 (.599 OPS) and missed most of last year, Salas dropped out of the top-100 at the start of the year for the first time since signing for $5.6 million as the top prospect in the 2023 international class.<\/p>\n

After a strong start to a healthy season, Salas is up to No. 94 in MLB.com\u2019s top-100<\/a>.<\/p>\n

First baseman Romeo Sanabria<\/strong> (.649 OPS) went 2-for-3 with his third homer, a double and three RBIs.<\/p>\n

Third baseman Luis Verdugo<\/strong> (.682 OPS) and center fielder Braedon Karpathios<\/strong> (.679 OPS) both hit their second homers of the season.<\/p>\n

Right-hander Miguel Mendez<\/strong> (3.24 ERA) returned from a neck strain with two strikeouts over two scoreless innings in the start.<\/p>\n

Mendez is ranked No. 3 among Padres prospects, behind left-hander Kruz Schoolcraft<\/strong> and Salas.<\/p>\n

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Tuesday\u2019s scoreboard<\/p>\n

TRIPLE-A EL PASO (19-21)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Salt Lake 11, Chihuahuas 4:<\/a> LHP Marco Gonzales<\/strong> (1-3, 10.64 ERA) allowed seven runs in 1\u2153 innings in the start. LHP Kyle Hart<\/strong> (4.50 ERA) and RHP Garrett Hawkins<\/strong> (5.17 ERA) both threw a scoreless inning. DH Jose Miranda<\/strong> (.771 OPS) hit his fifth homer. 1B Nick Solak<\/strong> (.906 OPS) went 2-for-3 with his second homer. SS Mason McCoy<\/strong> (.879 OPS) with a double.<\/p>\n

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HIGH SINGLE-A FORT WAYNE (16-18)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cedar Rapids 3, TinCaps 2:<\/a> SS Jonathan Vastine<\/strong> (.453 OPS) hit his second homer. 1B Jack Costello<\/strong> (.756 OPS) and C Carlos Rodriguez<\/strong> (.726 OPS) both had a double. RHP Clark Candiotti<\/strong> (1-2, 5.71 ERA) allowed two runs in 1\u2154 innings the loss. RHP Matthew Watson<\/strong> (3.14 ERA) walked four and allowed a run in 3\u2154 innings in the start.<\/p>\n

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LOW SINGLE-A LAKE ELSINORE (20-14)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Storm 4, Rancho Cucamonga 3:<\/a> RHP Winyer Chourio<\/strong> (1-0, 2.42 ERA) struck out 10 and allowed two runs on six hits in five innings in the win. LF Conner Westenburg<\/strong> (.928 OPS) went 2-for-3 with a triple, an RBI and a run scored. 1B Kerrington Cross<\/strong> (.860 OPS) went 2-for-3 with an RBI and a walk.<\/p>\n

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ROOKIE ACL PADRES (3-5)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dodgers 8, Padres 7 (8):<\/a> RHP Jhony Brito<\/strong> (7.50 ERA) allowed four runs in three innings in his second rehab start. RHP Ty Adcock<\/strong> (0.00 ERA) struck out two over a scoreless inning in his second rehab appearance. C Alcides Hernandez<\/strong> (1.255 OPS) went 2-for-3 with a triple, an RBI, a walk and a run scored. 2B Yimy Tovar<\/strong> (1.012 OPS) went 2-for-4 with an RBI, a walk and two runs scored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ethan Salas is back in MLB.com\u2019s top-100. He keeps homering. Of course, he\u2019s back. The 19-year-old catcher hit…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":793392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,1370,1266,3549,1306,7264,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-793391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-latest-headlines","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-san-diego-padres","15":"tag-sandiego","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116567208746746213","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793391","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=793391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}