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Yankees to Promote Catcher Austin Wells to Double-A Somerset

Official Patriots Press Release: Bridgewater, NJ – The New York Yankees have announced that catcher Austin Wells has been promoted to the Double-A Somerset Patriots. Wells is currently ranked as…

Austin Wells

The Yankees promoted their number 4 prospect, catcher Austin Wells to Double-A Somerset. Photo: Somerset Patriots.

Official Patriots Press Release:

Bridgewater, NJ – The New York Yankees have announced that catcher Austin Wells has been promoted to the Double-A Somerset Patriots. Wells is currently ranked as New York’s No. 4 prospect according to MLB Pipeline.

Wells began the 2022 season with High-A Hudson Valley and posted a .323 batting average, .429 on-base percentage and a .576 slugging percentage with six homers, 16 RBI, 19 walks and 21 runs scored.

After the 22-year-old spent time on the injured list, Wells began his way back to behind the plate in Low-A Tampa where he played nine games and belted two home runs and drove in six RBI.  

As the club’s first round pick in the 2020 draft, Wells has dominated in his time in both Tampa and Hudson Valley. He began 2021 assigned to the Tarpons before seeing a mid-season promotion to the Renegades and ending the year with a combined .264 batting average, 16 home runs, 76 RBI, 71 walks and 82 runs scored. At the conclusion of the season, Wells was named an MiLB Organizational All-Star for the Yankees.

Born in Las Vegas, Nevada, Wells attended the University of Arizona and prospered into one of the top catchers in the country after he slashed .357/.476/.560 with 74 RBI in his first two seasons.

The move comes after the recent promotion of catcher Josh Breaux from Somerset to Triple-A Scranton Wilkes-Barre. Wells joins INF Anthony Volpe (No. 1) as a top five ranked prospect in Somerset.

Michael Cohen is the News and Sports Director at Fox Sports Radio New Jersey and Magic 98.3 FM, as well as a radio production assistant with Fox and Magic in New Jersey. He started his career in Somerset in 2018 initially as a news fill-in at WCTC 1450 AM, and soon moved up to higher responsibilities in the ensuing years, assuming News & Sports Director title in 2021Prior to his time with Fox Sports New Jersey, Michael was play-by-play voice for New Jersey Jackals baseball, and as well as play-by-play and color for the College of Staten Island basketball (men and women), softball and baseball. Michael began his career as a news and sportswriter with the Jersey Journal of Hudson County.