Beneath is an evaluation of the prospects within the farm system of the Toronto Blue Jays. Scouting studies had been compiled with data offered by business sources in addition to our personal observations. That is the fifth 12 months we’re delineating between two anticipated reduction roles, the abbreviations for which you’ll see within the “place” column beneath: MIRP for multi-inning reduction pitchers, and SIRP for single-inning reduction pitchers. The ETAs listed typically correspond to the 12 months a participant needs to be added to the 40-man roster to keep away from being made eligible for the Rule 5 draft. Guide changes are made the place they appear acceptable, however we use that as a rule of thumb.
A fast overview of what FV (Future Worth) means could be discovered right here. A a lot deeper overview could be discovered right here.
All the ranked prospects beneath additionally seem on The Board, a useful resource the location affords that includes sortable scouting data for each group. It has extra particulars (and up to date TrackMan knowledge from varied sources) than this text and integrates each workforce’s listing so readers can examine prospects throughout farm methods. It may be discovered right here.
Different Prospects of Be aware
Grouped by kind and listed so as of choice inside every class.
Younger, Excessive-Precedence Follows
Yorman Licourt, OF
Angel Guzman, SS
Randy Soto, C/1B
Carson Messina, RHP
Licourt is a switch-hitting 21-year-old Cuban outfielder who signed in Might of 2024 and Okay’d a bunch throughout the remainder of the summer time within the DSL. He takes some fairly critical swings already and is extremely projectable; this man might need 70 uncooked at maturity. If his strikeout woes had been merely as a consequence of rust (Cuban gamers can typically go a very long time with out going through reside pitching), then Licourt might have a breakout 2025. If he’s going to be a 62% contact man in perpetuity, that’s an issue. Guzman is a switch-hitting 18-year-old Dominican shortstop who tracks pitches effectively and makes use of an opposite-field strategy. He must get stronger. Soto is a 5-foot-10 Venezuelan catcher with unimaginable plate self-discipline. The diminutive switch-hitter might not develop the power to wield the bat with authority towards upper-level pitching. Messina signed for $550,000 quite than go to South Carolina. He’s a short-armed righty with changeup and he’ll contact 94. He’s a funkier pitcher than a prototypical excessive schooler.
Rookie Ball Arms
Ramon Suarez, LHP
Angel Rivero, RHP
Sann Omosako, RHP
Suarez is an undersized, lightning-armed lefty who takes a giant stride down the mound and generates misleading low-90s velo. He additionally has curveball. His dimension and mechanical effort level to the bullpen, however he Okay’d practically 15/9 IP final 12 months regardless of not throwing all that arduous. Rivero, 18, is a 5-foot-11 Venezuelan righty who had a 5-to-1 Okay-to-BB ratio in final 12 months’s DSL and a 2.74 FIP. He’s undersized however fairly athletic, he has breaking ball, and he tops out round 94. You want a magnifying glass to see Omosako’s stroll charge. A well-built, 19-year-old Brazilian righty, he did effectively within the DSL final 12 months regardless of an upper-80s fastball. He has a shapely breaker and is somebody to observe in case he throws tougher.
Injured
Chad Dallas, RHP
Nolan Perry, RHP
Cade Doughty, 3B
Dallas was a fourth rounder out of Tennessee in 2021 who had low-minors success due to his wonderful slider. He had a tough 2024 as a starter, after which wanted TJ after the season. If his velo spikes in reduction upon return, he could possibly be a center inning reliever fairly rapidly. Perry was signed away from a Texas Tech commit for $200,000 within the 2022 draft. His low-90s fastball has huge vertical motion, he can create depth on his breaking ball, and he’s a unfastened, comparatively projectable 6-foot-2. He additionally walked practically 8/9 IP with Dunedin final 12 months and remains to be purely a traits-y dev challenge with wanting supply at age 21. He’s coming off a late 2024 TJ. A former LSU star, Doughty’s defensive match on the infield is unsure, and an injury-marred 2024 (shoulder) didn’t reply any questions on whether or not he can pare again an over-aggressive offensive strategy.
Nook Bats
Victor Arias, LF/CF
Riley Tirotta, 1B/3B
Peyton Williams, 1B
Enmanuel Bonilla, OF
Cutter Coffey, 3B
Damiano Palmegiani, 1B
Alex De Jesus, 3B
Arias is a twitchy 5-foot-9, 21-year-old who has low-ball energy to his pull facet and oppo-gap doubles energy on pitches away from him. He’s going to have a below-average hit device and is a fringe slot in heart discipline. The gamers whose manufacturing appears to be like like his are guys like Brett Phillips, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, and Laynce Nix, who’re all far more bodily than the little Arias. Tirotta has been a strong upper-level triple slash performer with roughly common hit and energy instruments, in addition to expertise at 1B/3B/LF. His arms on protection are fairly good, however his vary just isn’t, and his greatest match is unquestionably first. Williams is a 24-year-old XXL lefty-hitting first baseman from Iowa whose power-over-hit ability set has yielded a profession .268/.364/.443 profession line by way of Excessive-A. Bonilla’s contact charge within the 2023 DSL was already a priority (71%) and it dropped to 64% within the 2024 FCL as he Okay’d 35.5% of the time. The previous $4.1 million bonus recipient nonetheless has spectacular energy for his age, however there are not any full-time huge leaguers with a contact charge that low. The identical applies to Coffey, Palmegiani, and De Jesus, former stalwarts on the principle part of this listing whose bats have stalled out or regressed as they’ve gotten to the higher ranges of the minors.
Funky Pitchers
Paxton Schultz, RHP
Aaron Munson, RHP
Grayson Thurman, RHP
JJ Sanchez, LHP
Trenton Wallace, LHP
Luis Torres, LHP
Schultz was drafted out of Utah Valley by Milwaukee then grew to become the PTBNL within the Derek Fisher commerce in 2021. He transitioned to an extended reduction position in 2024 and Okay’d somewhat greater than a batter per inning due to a low-90s fastball with plus journey. He’s debuted a brand new splitter this spring, and if that pitch finally ends up being plus, he’ll in all probability get to the bigs in a reduction capability. Munson, 23, was a 2023 nineteenth rounder out of Angelo State (which appears like a mobster faculty, however is definitely a D-II college in Texas — they’re nicknamed the Rams) whose overhand, trebuchet-style arm motion helps conceal his fastball/cutter/slider combine. His low-90s fastball missed extra A-ball bats than you’d count on a 92 mph heater to overlook, and his slider generates a ton of grounders. Munson’s stroll charge exploded at Excessive-A, but when he can tamp that right down to an affordable stage, he could possibly be a low-leverage bullpen choice. An undrafted free agent signed in 2023, Thurman is a 26-year-old righty who has had mid-minors success as a reliever due to splitter and a nutty, tough-to-parse launch peak simply shy of seven toes. Undrafted out of Southeastern, Sanchez is a low-slot lefty reduction prospect who has been as much as 95 and has a frisbee slider. He Okay’d somewhat greater than a batter per inning at Dunedin final 12 months. Wallace is a 26-year-old lefty sidearmer from Iowa whose supply appears to be like like Jake Diekman’s if you happen to dropped Diek in molasses. Wallace has the look of a slider-heavy lefty specialist. Torres throws a ton of changeups and sliders (his fastball is his tertiary pitch), each of which have performed like plus pitches towards rookie and A-ball hitters. His command just isn’t fairly sharp sufficient for him to maintain sitting 92, but when he both throws tougher or turns into extra exact, this strategy might work in reduction.
Depth Starters
Lazaro Estrada, RHP
Devereaux Harrison, RHP
Gilberto Batista, RHP
Rafael Sanchez, RHP
Connor O’Halloran, LHP
Estrada routinely posted a double-digit Okay/9 in A-ball, albeit in shorter bursts as a consequence of frequent harm. He first reached full-season ball in 2021 however took till 2024 to achieve Double-A, which he lastly did the again half of the season. He’s a deep-repertoire’d righty with the stuff of a membership’s no. 7-9 starter or so, like most guys on this part. Harrison is a kitchen sink righty with a pleasant assortment of breaking balls. His slider is the perfect of these. One of many three prospects acquired from Boston within the Danny Jansen deal, Batista is a 20-year-old kitchen sink righty and strike-throwing athlete with below-average current stuff. Sanchez is a 25-year-old Cuban righty who reached New Hampshire towards the tip of 2024. He fills the zone and has three distinct pitches, the perfect of which is a median splitter. O’Halloran was the membership’s 2023 fifth rounder out of Michigan and, although his peripherals are first rate, he’s carried bloated ERAs by way of a 12 months and a half of A-ball begins.
Toting Velo
Daniel Guerra, RHP
Eminen Flores, RHP
Yondrei Rojas, RHP
Julio Ortiz, RHP
He has been pretty walk-prone and never particularly dominant from a hit-avoiding standpoint, nevertheless it’d be damning to not point out the 6-foot-6 Guerra, who has unusual athleticism for a pitcher his dimension and was ripping some 96s and 97s previous Low-A hitters after he was promoted late final 12 months. Flores is a quick-armed, undersized, 22-year-old Dominican righty who signed in 2022 and had been in rookie ball till late final 12 months, when he was promoted to Dunedin. He’ll run it as much as 96-97, however sits 93-95 and is kind of wild. Rojas is a stocky, cutter-heavy, 22-year-old Venezuelan righty who had a velo spike when he was moved to the Dunedin bullpen in 2024, typically touching 96. Ortiz is a wild 24-year-old righty who will ceaselessly contact 98. He’s been walk-prone within the low minors.
System Overview
Toronto’s system has common top-end and general depth, however at this precise second, it’s in all probability somewhat beneath common as a result of so most of the greater upside pitchers are presently injured. 5 of the primary 15 prospects ranked above are in varied levels of restoration. The org has a ton of depth amongst part-time hitters who they’re nonetheless attempting to know and deploy optimally on the huge league stage, even after the departure of fellows like Cavan Biggio and Santiago Espinal. Hitters like Orelvis Martinez, Addison Barger, Leo Jiménez, Davis Schneider, Ernie Clement and others are nonetheless vying for part-time roles because the Jays attempt to patch collectively a quilt of assorted specialists round their core 5 – 6 on a regular basis hitters. Regardless that a lot of them are of their mid-20s, the way in which Toronto has slow-played principally all of them by way of the higher minors means the Jays have all of them below workforce management for one more four-plus years. They’re going to seize no matter significant peaks the group has looming, and proper now Alan Roden’s peak is wanting like essentially the most thrilling of that contingent.
The Blue Jays are usually not afraid to swim within the deeper finish of the worldwide participant pool, as they typically signal particular person gamers for $3 million or extra, and are ceaselessly linked to a top-of-the-class prospect a number of years upfront. There are rumors within the worldwide scouting neighborhood that they have already got a 2028 participant dedicated for round $4.5 million. Outcomes have been blended on this house, with Vladimir Guerrero Jr. an instance of an organizational house run hit on this trend, whereas Enmanuel Bonilla’s early-career outcomes have been painful. There are alternative prices whenever you put a lot of your pool into one participant and he doesn’t work out.
The Jays have pumped a ton of draft capital into teenage pitchers all through the final 4 drafts. They have a tendency to have a $1 million-ish excessive schooler someplace of their draft, be it Irv Carter (who really bought extra money than Ricky Tiedemann in the identical 12 months), Landon Maroudis, or Johnny King. We’ve favored these gamers, however typically these are slow-to-mature prospects, which is probably not ultimate given the possibly fleeting nature of that aforementioned core. In each newbie scouting areas, the Jays are far more danger tolerant than they’re in professional scouting, the place the gamers Toronto acquires through commerce typically have extra data-driven profiles and fewer eye-popping bodily instruments, aside from Jake Bloss, who has a little bit of each. Bloss goes to assist out this 12 months (in all probability quickly), and if he can command the ball the way in which he did throughout his previous couple of spring outings, then he’s going to be an important a part of the employees immediately. He’s considered one of a number of pitchers who’re in place to supply significant depth this 12 months, although once more, a number of of them are presently injured.
