LAKELAND, Fla. – Aaron Boone said Saturday morning that Spencer Jones “can legit fly.”

So do the baseballs the Yankees’ top prospect gets a hold of.

Jones demolished a 470-foot home run in his first at-bat of Grapefruit League play on Saturday, doing little to temper the hype that surrounds him in his first big league camp.

The 22-year-old center fielder entered the game against the Tigers as a pinch-hitter in the fifth inning and immediately flashed his power.

The 6-foot-6, left-handed slugger may have gotten a little help from the wind that was blowing out to right field, but the blast cleared the bullpen beyond the right-field fence, with the ball landing on a patio above it at Joker Marchant Stadium.

Jones’ home run came off Tigers right-hander Mason Englert, who threw a slider on the low-and-inside corner of the zone and then saw it fly.

Jones, who is expected to start the season at Double-A Somerset (where he played the final 17 games of his 2023 campaign), was the Yankees’ first-round pick out of Vanderbilt in 2022.

“Looking forward to him being in big league camp,” Boone said before Saturday’s game. “It’s part of his development, part of that growth process to be around guys he’s going to get to be around here. Hopefully getting in big league spring action and getting [at-bats] and stuff like that. It’s an important part of the development.”

Jones was hit on the right elbow in his second at-bat, but the 93 mph sinker appeared to get all of his elbow pad and he remained in the game.