106 RBI in a single Triple-A season. On August 31, 2026, Las Vegas Aviators first baseman Joey Meneses — born and raised in Culiacán, Sinaloa — set a new all-time single-season RBI record for a Mexican-born player in Triple-A. Playing for Oakland’s affiliate in the Pacific Coast League, Meneses put up a number that puts him in a class of his own in Mexican baseball history.
How Meneses Got There
This wasn’t a slow build. By mid-June, Meneses was hitting .348 with a .944 OPS and 76 RBI in just 69 games — leading the PCL in both categories. The Athletics called him up on June 22, used him at the big-league level, then optioned him back to Las Vegas. That’s where the story gets interesting.
Rather than coast after his MLB stint, Meneses kept producing. He eventually reached 106 RBI, a figure that — according to @Beisbolpuro — surpasses any single-season Triple-A RBI mark ever recorded by a Mexican-born player. Worth noting: the source here is @Beisbolpuro, not an official MiLB or Aviators release. Official confirmation is still pending, but the context of Meneses’s season makes it very credible — no Mexican player in Triple-A had put up numbers like this in a long time.
A Sinaloense Who Keeps Making History
This isn’t the first time Meneses has written his name into the record books. On August 2, 2022, fresh off being called up by Washington, he became the first Mexican-born player to hit a home run in his MLB debut — doing it against the New York Mets, no less. That same year he slashed .324 with 13 home runs and 34 RBI in 56 games for the Nationals.
His best MLB season came in 2023: career highs across the board with 154 games, 168 hits, 36 doubles and 89 RBI. After that, things got bumpier. He spent 2025 with the Mets’ Triple-A affiliate in Syracuse, hitting .265 with 11 home runs and 55 RBI in 110 games, then signed a minor-league deal with Oakland on November 15, 2025.
Now 34 years old, with 15 professional seasons on his résumé — stops in Atlanta, Philadelphia, Boston, Washington, New York and now Oakland — Meneses arrived in Las Vegas in 2026 and produced like never before at the minor-league level. That means something on its own.
What the Statcast Numbers Say
Meneses’s 2026 Statcast numbers from his MLB time tell a more complicated story than the Triple-A line suggests:
- Plate appearances (MLB): 25
- Home runs: 0 | RBI: 2
- AVG: .150
- OPS: .430
- xwOBA: .326 — what his quality of contact says he should be producing
- Average exit velocity: 92.7 mph
- Barrel rate: 0%
- Hard-hit rate: 58.8% (batted balls at 95+ mph)
- Sprint speed: 9th percentile
The surface numbers in the majors are rough, but a 58.8% hard-hit rate and a 92.7 mph average exit velocity suggest the bat still has real pop. The results haven’t matched the contact quality — yet. Oakland has seen enough to keep optioning him back to Las Vegas. The question is when they stop doing that.
