Tommy White heats up at Triple-A Las Vegas, earns Hot Sheet nod

Tommy White is forcing the question with production, not projection. In a five-game stretch for Triple-A Las Vegas, the 23-year-old Athletics infielder hit .467/.556/1.400, piled up two homers, and turned a hot week into a louder call-up conversation than his prospect rank usually invites.

White went 7-for-15 with six runs, a double, a triple, eight RBIs, two walks and six strikeouts in the week tracked through June 21. That is not just a power burst. It is damage spread across the entire box score, the kind of line that says White was not merely lifting mistakes, but punishing nearly everything he squared up.

The eye-opening moment came June 18, when White blew up Round Rock for a career-high six RBIs and two home runs in Las Vegas’ 26-13 win. MiLB also noted that he homered in his third consecutive game, which matters because streaks like that are usually where a hitter’s approach starts to show its teeth. White’s surge has not been built on empty contact. It has been built on extra-base hit after extra-base hit, with the run production to match.

That run landed him No. 3 on Baseball America’s latest Hot Sheet, which ranked the 20 hottest prospects in the game. White’s nickname, Tommy Tanks, has followed him since his freshman year at NC State, when he launched nine homers in his first eight games. Baseball America pointed out the larger comparison too: White’s 27 college home runs as a freshman are five more than he has hit in 176 professional games, a reminder that the raw power has always been real, even if the professional translation has taken longer.

The 2026 numbers now start to look more convincing. White entered the latest update batting .297/.350/.823 for Las Vegas with eight homers and 50 RBIs in 239 at-bats. That is a different conversation than the modest .275 career minor league average that has shadowed him so far. For an offense already sitting on top of the Pacific Coast League West, Las Vegas is getting real middle-of-the-order juice from a player ranked as the Athletics’ No. 9 prospect.

White, drafted by Oakland in the second round in 2024 out of Louisiana State, has always been about the bat speed and the power ceiling. What changed this week was the quality of contact turned into actual run production, and that is the part the Athletics will watch most closely. The Aviators were 42-28 and first in the division entering June 22, with Sacramento next on the schedule. If White keeps hitting like this, the surge stops looking like a hot week and starts looking like a case.