{"id":11545,"date":"2025-07-21T19:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T19:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/11545\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T19:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T19:21:08","slug":"blue-jays-officially-sign-18-players-from-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/11545\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays officially sign 18 players from draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a class=\"sn-team-post-link\" data-team=\"toronto-blue-jays\" data-league=\"mlb\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/toronto-blue-jays\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> signed 18 players selected during the 2025 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft in addition to eight undrafted free agents on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Headlining the list is shortstop JoJo Parker, who was picked eighth overall in the first round. Parker signed for a $6.2 million bonus, Sportsnet&#8217;s Shi Davidi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/mlb\/article\/blue-jays-sign-first-round-pick-jojo-parker-to-under-slot-deal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed last Friday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The eighth-overall selection in this year&#8217;s draft had a $6,813,600 slot value. By coming in on an under-slot deal with Parker, the Blue Jays were able spread some of their bonus pool around to their other draft picks.<\/p>\n<p>Parker was MLB Pipeline&#8217;s ninth-overall ranked prospect in the 2025 draft class out of Purvis High School in Mississippi.<\/p>\n<p>The left-handed hitter is said to come with one of the best hit tools in the draft and won the Gatorade Mississippi Baseball Player of the Year Award in his senior season.<\/p>\n<p>By signing with the Blue Jays, Parker will officially join the pro ranks and forego his commitment to Mississippi State.<\/p>\n<p>Davidi also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/mlb\/article\/blue-jays-sign-canadian-fifth-round-pick-tim-piasentin-to-above-slot-deal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previously reported<\/a> that Canadian third baseman and fifth-round pick Tim Piasentin was signed to an above-slot deal of $750,000.<\/p>\n<p>The assigned value for No. 143 overall \u2014 Piasentin&#8217;s draft spot \u2014 is $503,800.<\/p>\n<p>The Coquitlam, B.C., native was one of two Canadians selected at the 2025 MLB Draft by the Blue Jays, with Toronto also drafting Micah Bucknam in the fourth round.<\/p>\n<p>Piasentin was ranked 160th by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/milb\/prospects\/draft\/tim-piasentin-815992\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLB Pipeline<\/a>, playing out of Foothills Composite High School in Okotoks, Alta.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the full list of players the Blue Jays signed Monday: <\/p>\n<p>\u2022 JoJo Parker, SS (first round, eighth overall) <br \/>\u2022 Jake Cook, OF (third round, 81st overall) <br \/>\u2022 Micah Buchnam, P (fourth round, 112th overall) <br \/>\u2022\u00a0Tim Piasentin, 3B (fifth round, 143rd overall) <br \/>\u2022\u00a0Eric Snow, SS (sixth round, 172nd overall) <br \/>\u2022 Dylan Watts, P (seventh round, 202nd overall) <br \/>\u2022\u00a0Danny Thompson Jr., P (eighth round, 232nd overall) <br \/>\u2022\u00a0Karson Ligon, P (ninth round, 262nd overall) <br \/>\u2022\u00a0Austin Smith, OF (10th round, 292nd overall) <br \/>\u2022\u00a0Jared Spencer, P (11th round, 322nd overall) <br \/>\u2022\u00a0Blaine Bullard, OF (12th round, 352nd overall) <br \/>\u2022\u00a0Trace Baker, P (13th round, 382nd overall) <br \/>\u2022 Noah Palmese, P (14th round, 412th overall) <br \/>\u2022\u00a0Jake Casey, OF (15th round, 442nd overall) <br \/>\u2022\u00a0Jaxson West, C (16th round, 472nd overall) <br \/>\u2022\u00a0Jordan Rich, OF (17th round, 502nd overall) <br \/>\u2022\u00a0Will Cresswell, C (18th round, 532nd overall) <br \/>\u2022\u00a0Luke Kovach, P (19th round, 562nd overall) <br \/>\u2022\u00a0Mason Davenport, P (non-drafted free agent) <br \/>\u2022 Brayden Heidel, P (non-drafted free agent) <br \/>\u2022 Maddox Latta, SS (non-drafted free agent) <br \/>\u2022\u00a0Carson Myers, P (non-drafted free agent) <br \/>\u2022\u00a0Dayne Pengelly, P (non-drafted free agent) <br \/>\u2022\u00a0Charlie Saum, C (non-drafted free agent) <br \/>\u2022\u00a0Sam White, 2B (non-drafted free agent) <br \/>\u2022\u00a0Reece Wissinger, P (non-drafted free agent) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Blue Jays signed 18 players selected during the 2025 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-11545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}