The Braves waited almost a year to the day since signing him for Kevin Maitan to make his professional debut. Less than two weeks later, the club's second-ranked prospect has climbed a rung of the organizational ladder and begun to produce for Rookie-level Danville.

"He has some things to clean up because he's a very young kid," Danville hitting coach Barbaro Garbey said. "We've had to make some adjustments, some changes to his setup and his mechanics, and he's really shown he can be a good Major League player. He's able to make the adjustments he needs to make so early in his career."

Francisco Mejia's dominant run in the Eastern League hit a speed bump on Saturday night.

The Indians' top prospect exited Double-A Akron's 5-4 win over Richmond in the second inning with a strained right hip.

Eloy Jimenez has made a seamless transition from Chicago's North Side organization to the one on the South Side, but MLB.com's No. 8 overall prospect will miss a little action this weekend.

Kyle Lewis entered the professional ranks from college with a crowded mantle and lived up to the acclaim until a torn ACL derailed his progress last summer. Almost a full year since the injury, MLB.com's No. 20 overall prospect has a new approach to the game that he hopes can block out some unnecessary noise.

"When you're injured, the results don't come as fast, so you have to trust your process," Lewis said. "I go into games and at-bats, I'm able to just continue to work on my process versus worrying about results where before I was so used to getting results that that kind of became the focal point."

Travis Jones continues to rake, no matter where he plays or what kind of bat he uses. 

In his second Pioneer League game and playing for his third team in less than a month, Jones had a career-high five hits and two RBIs in Rookie-level Idaho Falls' 13-1 rout of Helena on Friday night at Kindrick Legion Field.

"My approach has been pretty consistent since the beginning of my career and it's simply just trying to find the barrel early in the count," the Royals' 29th-round pick in last month's Draft said. "Realistically, I'm just trying to put the ball in play every at-bat and letting God do the rest because you can't control where the ball goes once you hit it.

Jack Flaherty had hit a rough patch in his first stint at Triple-A, but he rebounded nicely on Friday night.

The Cardinals' sixth-ranked prospect gave up four hits and struck out nine without issuing a walk over 6 1/3 innings as Memphis blanked Las Vegas, 6-0, at AutoZone Park.

Knowing that he had a chance to finish what he started on Friday, Ryan Castellani decided to break something out of his bag of tricks. It worked, to say the least. 

"Out of nowhere, and this is exactly what I'm thinking and that's why me and [catcher Dom Nunez] are on the same page. We got to a two-strike count on the last hitter and on pitch 99, he calls a curveball and we execute it," the Rockies' No. 3 prospect said. "It's a separation pitch that they're not expecting."

Castellani recorded his first professional shutout by yielding three hits and striking out six over seven innings as Double-A Hartford topped Portland, 2-0, in Game 1 of a doubleheader at Hadlock Field. 

Alex Young had no margin of error to work with for much of his start on Friday night. Given a slim lead, he made sure it held up as long as he was on the mound.

Young gave up two hits and a walk while recording a season-high eight strikeouts over six scoreless innings as Double-A Jackson edged Birmingham, 2-1, at Regions Field.

Yohander Mendez is learning to use all of his pitches. And that's bad news for Texas League hitters.

Texas' No. 2 prospect matched a season high with nine strikeouts over seven innings as Double-A Frisco won a pitchers' duel over San Antonio, 1-0, on Friday night. The left-hander scattered four hits and walked two.

Ryan Yarbrough climbed atop the International League leaderboards in wins and strikeouts with a dominant start on Friday, and he'd like to think those numbers are an accurate reflection of his growth as a pitcher this season.

The Rays' 23rd-ranked prospect set a career high with 13 punchouts while allowing two runs on four hits over six innings in Triple-A Durham's 5-3 win over Lehigh Valley at Durham Bulls Athletic Park. He did not walk a batter en route to his 10th win, tying him with three others for tops in the league.

"I'm not normally considered a strikeout pitcher," Yarbrough said. "Even last year, I don't think I've had this amount of strikeouts and I had more innings. So it kind of shows that I'm able to improve on some things. The wins are especially a good sign. It shows that you're keeping your team in the games and going deep in the games. And as a starting pitcher, that's all you can really ask for."