Week two of the AFL season saw the Peoria Javelinas dealing with a rainout that was rescheduled for an off day. Going 2-3 for the week, the Javelinas sit in fourth place with a 5-6 record overall. They are 2.5 games back of the two leading teams, the Scottsdale Scorpions and Surprise Saguaros.
San Diego Padres RHP Kannon Kemp had a start on Oct. 10 and pitched three innings allowing four runs on four hits with three strikeouts. Two of the runs were the result of a home run. RHP Winyer Chourio started on Oct. 14, pitching 2.2 innings allowing a hit and two runs with six walks and two strikeouts. He also had three wild pitches in his 59 pitches thrown with only 25 strikes. After a breakout season in 2025, Chourio has struggled with command during parts of the 2026 season.
Righty reliever Francis Peña pitched in one game for one innings and allowed no hits or runs. He had no walks or strikeouts. Lefty reliever Igor Gil pitched 1.2 innings with a hit, two walks and three strikeouts.
Outfielder Alex McCoy played in two games and hit his second home run for the Javelinas. Infielder Justin DeCriscio also played in two games with two RBI. Catcher Ty Harvey played in two games with two RBI for the week.
Sam Dykstra, who writes for MLB Pipeline on MLB.com, featured McCoy and Harvey in his AFL update this week. For his first two home runs in the AFL, McCoy rose to the top levels of baseball with a 118.2 mph EV on the 435-foot homer he hit on the 15th. The blast came on an 89.3 mph sinker and was not the hardest-hit ball of his 2026 season.
On April 12, while playing for Fort Wayne, McCoy had a groundout clocked at 119.5 mph and a 118 mph home run with Lake Elsinore at another point in the season.
McCoy missed time in 2025 due to injury but that is not reportedly the reason he is playing in the AFL this year. The Padres want him exposed to other pitching than he has seen so far. Hoping that there would be top prospects throwing during AFL games, McCoy’s high strikeout rate and swing-and-miss tendencies need more exposure to improved pitching. A successful adjuster so far in his career, challenging the 6-foot-5 outfielder makes sense as the Padres consistently challenge their top prospects.
Harvey, who did miss big portions of the 2026 season, is making up for lost time. At 20 years old, just one month younger than Padres catcher Ethan Salas, Harvey is also a potential plus power hitter in the system. After returning later in the season, Harvey was the catcher of record for most of the championship run for the Lake Elsinore Storm.
Ethan Salas gets an award
To wrap up the 2026 minor league season for the Padres’ top prospect, Ethan Salas was named the MiLB Defensive Player of the Year. Recognized as a plus defender at this point in his career, Salas almost certainly is done with his minor league career. Assured of an opportunity to win a starting job with the Padres in 2027, Salas will benefit from working with Padres catching coach Kevin Plawecki, who has been credited with helping Luis Campusano up his game.