{"id":126438,"date":"2025-06-24T01:46:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T01:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/126438\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T01:46:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T01:46:13","slug":"red-hot-seattle-mariners-top-prospect-wins-potw-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/126438\/","title":{"rendered":"Red-hot Seattle Mariners top prospect wins POTW honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top Seattle Mariners prospect Colt Emerson\u2019s scorching week with the High-A Everett AquaSox was recognized by minor league baseball Monday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sports.mynorthwest.com\/mlb\/seattle-mariners\/seattle-mariners-top-prospect-colt-emerson-toe-tap-adjustment\/1814083\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">M\u2019s top prospect Colt Emerson on tear after making a tweak<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Emerson, ranked as the Mariners\u2019 top prospect and No. 16 in all of baseball by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/milb\/prospects\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">MLB Pipeline<\/a>, was named the Northwest League Player of the Week for Jun 15-22 after helping Everett secure the first-half Northwest League championship, which qualifies the AquaSox for the Northwest League championship series in September.<\/p>\n<p>The left-handed-hitting shortstop posted an impressive .529\/.600\/1.118 slash line with four doubles, two home runs, four RBIs and three runs scored over five games. His big week included a three-hit game with two doubles and a home run Tuesday, and a four-hit game (the first of his career) with a double and a home run Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>It added on to what\u2019s been a strong month of June for the 2023 first-round pick. After entering the month with a .246 average, Emerson is batting .328 with a 1.037 OPS and 10 extra-base hits in 18 games.<\/p>\n<p>On the season, he is slashing .267\/.372\/.428 with 10 doubles, four triples, seven home runs and 34 RBIs in 63 games at High-A.<\/p>\n<p>Emerson\u2019s honor made it three straight weeks an AquaSox player took home a weekly award. Second baseman Michael Arroyo won player of the week honors last week and Ryan Hawks won pitcher of the week the week prior to Arroyo.<\/p>\n<p>The news of Emerson\u2019s weekly honor came on the same day the Mariners <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.mynorthwest.com\/mlb\/seattle-mariners\/seattle-mariners-prospects-promote-lazaro-montes-michael-arroyo\/1814443\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">promoted a handful of minor leaguers<\/a>. Those promotions included outfielder Lazaro Montes and Arroyo (a pair of top-10 Mariners prospects) making the jump from Everett to Double-A Arkansas. Montes is ranked 32nd and Arroyo 77th among all MLB prospects.<\/p>\n<p>More on the Seattle Mariners<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.mynorthwest.com\/mlb\/seattle-mariners\/seattle-mariners-cal-raleigh-al-player-of-the-week-2nd-time\/1814413\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mariners\u2019 Cal Raleigh wins AL Player of the Week for second time this month<\/a><br \/>\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.mynorthwest.com\/mlb\/seattle-mariners\/mlb-all-star-voting-update-seattle-mariners-cal-raleigh\/1814397\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Latest MLB All-Star update good for Cal, but not other Mariners<\/a><br \/>\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.mynorthwest.com\/mlb\/seattle-mariners\/donovan-solanos-resurgence-helps-ms-in-more-than-one-way\/1814321\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donovan Solano\u2019s resurgence helps M\u2019s in more ways than one<\/a><br \/>\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.mynorthwest.com\/mlb\/seattle-mariners\/highlights-mariners-slug-five-hrs-in-series-clinching-win-vs-cubs\/1814309\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Highlights: Mariners slug five HRs in series-clinching win vs Cubs<\/a><br \/>\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.mynorthwest.com\/mlb\/seattle-mariners\/potential-seattle-mariners-draft-target-kade-anderson-gem-college-world-series\/1814285\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Potential M\u2019s draft target spins gem at College World Series<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZacHereth\" data-show-count=\"false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Follow @ZacHereth<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sports.mynorthwest.com\/newsletters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SeattleSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SeattleSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Top Seattle Mariners prospect Colt Emerson\u2019s scorching week with the High-A Everett AquaSox was recognized by minor league&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2392],"tags":[5,220,620,4,221,216,619,65,3235,185,219,218,217],"class_list":{"0":"post-126438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-mariners","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-home","10":"tag-mariners","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-mynorthwest-com","13":"tag-mynorthwest-com-seattle-news","14":"tag-seattle","15":"tag-seattle-mariners","16":"tag-seattlemariners","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-talk-and-community","19":"tag-traffic","20":"tag-weather"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114735820885468081","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}