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Yankees Promote Trey Sweeney to Double-A Somerset

Official Somerset Patriots Press Release:  Bridgewater, New Jersey – The New York Yankees have announced the promotion of INF Trey Sweeney to the Double-A Somerset Patriots. Sweeney, the organization’s currently ranked No. 6 prospect, has…

Trey Sweeney

Trey Sweeney of the Somerset Patriots. Photo: Somerset Patriots.

Official Somerset Patriots Press Release: 

Bridgewater, New Jersey – The New York Yankees have announced the promotion of INF Trey Sweeney to the Double-A Somerset Patriots.

Sweeney, the organization’s currently ranked No. 6 prospect, has slashed .241/.350/.415 in 100 games this season for High-A Hudson Valley. He leaves as the Renegades team leader in runs (70), hits (94) and doubles (18). He was also second in home runs (14), triples (4), RBIs (51) and total bases (162). His 70 runs are tied for fourth in the South Atlantic League and his 29 stolen bases rank fourth among league leaders.

Sweeney spent most of his first season in professional ball at Low-A Tampa is 2021. There, the Louisville, KY native slashed .245/.357/.518, while adding six home runs and 13 RBIs in 110 at bats in 29 games played.

The Yankees selected Sweeney in the first round (20th overall) of the 2021 MLB Draft out of Eastern Illinois.

He makes it five Top 10 Yankees prospects to currently play on Somerset’s roster. He joins C Austin Wells (No. 4), OF Everson Pereira (No. 5), RHP Will Warren (No. 8) and RHP Clayton Beeter (No. 9). 

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.