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Below is an analysis of the prospects in the farm system of the Toronto Blue Jays. Scouting reports were compiled with information provided by industry sources as well as my own observations. This is the sixth year we\u2019re delineating between two anticipated relief roles, the abbreviations for which you\u2019ll see in the \u201cposition\u201d column below: MIRP for multi-inning relief pitchers, and SIRP for single-inning relief pitchers. The ETAs listed generally correspond to the year a player has to be added to the 40-man roster to avoid being made eligible for the Rule 5 draft. Manual adjustments are made where they seem appropriate, but we use that as a rule of thumb.<\/p>\n
A quick overview of what FV (Future Value) means can be found here<\/a>. A much deeper overview can be found here<\/a>. <\/p>\n All of the ranked prospects below also appear on The Board, a resource the site offers featuring sortable scouting information for every organization. It has more details (and updated TrackMan data from various sources) than this article and integrates every team\u2019s list so readers can compare prospects across farm systems. It can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Other Prospects of Note<\/p>\n Grouped by type and listed in order of preference within each category.<\/p>\n DSL Dudes This section is a little short because some of the bats from last year\u2019s class were good enough for the main section (good!), while some of the arms with interesting traits got released (a little strange). Rivero has good body control, can throw strikes, and has performed well over two DSL seasons. He\u2019s up to 95 with fair secondaries that could tick up as he develops. Suarez is a deceptive, undersized lefty with a quick arm. He missed the 2025 season and is an intriguing complex follow. Blanco is a little old for the DSL, but he showed enough feel to hit to keep an eye on him. A $2.2 million signee in the 2025 international class, Polanco\u2019s short, almost truncated swing produced neither contact nor power, and his error-strewn defense did not match amateur reports. <\/p>\n Potentially Potent Pitchers Moon inked a deal last September for $1 million, the largest bonus Toronto has ever given a Korean player. He\u2019s athletic with a projectable frame and good feel to spin it. He\u2019s a 2026 breakout candidate. A high-dollar draft selection, Maroudis regressed across the board in 2025 following an internal brace procedure to repair his torn UCL. He\u2019s athletic with a shapely curve and sinker, but after walking more than 10 per nine in Dunedin, he needs a reset. A veteran of the complexes, Severino finally reached Low-A in 2025. He touches 97 with a hard slider and has some idea of where it\u2019s going, but his command lags and he needs another gear to compensate for his fastball\u2019s hittable shape. You can squint and see paths forward. Like many Brazilians in baseball, Omosako hails from S\u00e3o Paulo\u2019s large community of folks with Japanese ancestry. He has a fluid delivery and can really pitch, but his stuff is soft and he\u2019ll need to prove he can make it work at every level. <\/p>\n Torres is very deceptive, with a short, quick arm that hides the ball. He tends to pitch backwards and low-level hitters often look flummoxed. His stuff was up a tick in May, but he missed most of the 2025 season. Wilkerson has interesting pitch data and does a few things well. He throws strikes, touches 97, and has an interesting cutter and slider. He leaves a lot out over the plate, however, and has been hittable dating back to his college days. Maybe it all works in short stints. Messina signed for $550,000 in 2024. Elbow inflammation kept him on the shelf practically all of last season, but he\u2019s reportedly back and throwing again. Toronto\u2019s 11th rounder last year, Spencer is a lower-slot lefty who could have a plus fastball-slider combo in relief; word on the street is that the shoulder injury he suffered down the stretch is quite serious, so I\u2019m tucking him here for now. Guerra is a high-slot righty who touches 98. His delivery is a little stiff and his secondaries are currently fringy. It makes sense to continue developing him as a starter to see if the extra reps can help him find a breaking ball. Flores is at least an average athlete and he throws hard. He has a smooth delivery too, which actually makes his huge control issues a lot more concerning, because there isn\u2019t an obvious path to getting him in the zone more reliably.<\/p>\n Upper-Level Bats Bohrofen has power and can play all three outfield spots, but an inability to hit spin has led to a 20 hit tool. Rivera is a solid shortstop with above-average power and a strong arm, but he\u2019s not especially rangy and he can\u2019t hit.<\/p>\n Can They Hit Enough? Do you want a sleeper? Maybe it\u2019s Casey, son of former big leaguer Sean Casey<\/a>. He hit his way from the MAC to the Cape in 2023, then had a rough junior year and came back to Kent State in 2025. He\u2019s a little older, but also has a playable power-speed blend and could be a platoon outfielder \u2014 if he can figure out how to hit spin. He swings over it frequently and that might prove to be a deal-breaker. Let\u2019s give him a year to find out. Parker has at times looked like a bat-first backup catcher. A bad approach limits the utility of his above-average power and the lack of growth in this regard pushed him down from the main section. Defensively, he has a strong wrist and arm, but his skills are well below par. Arias has big league size and a chance to develop plus power. His feel to hit is crude and he needs to repeat the complex. Micheletti had the type of season that usually prompts questions in the comments. He has above-average thump and a good eye, but everything else is light. Licourt is a recent older Cuban signee with big league size and plus power. His equally noticeable swing-and-miss could be fatal, but there may yet be paths forward. Dropping switch-hitting \u2014 he ran a 50% strikeout rate as a righty last year \u2014 might be a place to start. Munoz has a fast bat and projects to have plus power. His swing doesn\u2019t look comfortable or natural, and spin gives him fits. Joseph held water at Low-A. He\u2019s a center fielder with enough contact and power to stay on his athleticism and projectable frame. <\/p>\n Good Gloves Snow, Toronto\u2019s sixth-round pick last year, makes a ton of contact, most of it soft. He looks like a depth middle infielder. West was Toronto\u2019s 16th rounder last year. He\u2019s a good receiver, he has an approach, and he never strikes out. It\u2019s a recipe for a long minor league career if nothing else. A rangy second baseman with contact skill and some defensive flexibility, Freethy\u2019s lack of arm strength limits his chances to become a seven-position super-sub type. <\/p>\n Reliever Tower Jennings has above-average secondaries and a path to a middle relief role, but his fastball gets hit and he didn\u2019t throw strikes in Triple-A. Bonds has old school deception, with a late glove throw feeding into a sneaky-fast overhand release. He gets 20 inches of vertical break on the heater and lower-level hitters swung under it all day long, but the rest of the package is pretty vanilla. Perhaps Ligon belongs on the main section, as last year\u2019s ninth rounder touches 100 and flashes a good slider. His stiff, high-effort delivery scare me, but credit to him, he matured as a strike-thrower in college. We\u2019ll see how it looks in relief. Van Eyk is generally near the plate and flashes a plus curve. It\u2019s nearly time to see how it plays in short stints. Toronto\u2019s king of deception, Garkow has a soothsayer\u2019s changeup. It has outlier movement traits and gets whiffs like crazy despite mid-70s velo. I\u2019m skeptical but also unwilling to completely write him off until batters actually start doing something against him. Larkin is an intriguing sidearmer with some things that stand out on the spreadsheet \u2014 high spin, good velo, the aforementioned slot \u2014 but his numbers across 151.2 minor league innings support a more tepid visual eval. Gregory has reached Triple-A. He sits in the mid-90s with a slider that flashes above average. He\u2019s an up-down candidate.<\/p>\n Length Arms, For Now Sadly, Wentworth\u2019s middle name doesn\u2019t start with a \u201cG.\u201d He has a nice changeup and could work in middle relief if he gets a velo bump in shorter outings. At times throughout his career, Estrada has flashed backend quality stuff, but it was down last year, when he looked like a depth length reliever or spot starter. Dallas, a.k.a. Cheese, is a high-energy guy who has long projected as a reliever on the strength of his slider. He\u2019s started throughout his minor league career, but it might make sense to dovetail his return from Tommy John surgery with a relief role. Cates has a carrying fastball and sinking change combo that gave A-ball hitters fits, particularly after a mid-season promotion. His breaking ball doesn\u2019t seem to entice hitters off the plate; he could be a depth starter. Batista throws strikes despite a challenging delivery. Up to 96, he\u2019s a candidate to develop into a fastball-changeup reliever. An undrafted free agent, Pengelly touches the upper 90s out of a low-three-quarters slot with a low release and above-average extension. He even throws strikes. There\u2019s not much of a breaking ball, but you can see paths to finding one; he seems like a candidate for a sweeper. <\/p>\n System Overview<\/p>\n This is a light system, particularly if you\u2019ve mentally moved Trey Yesavage from the prospect bin to the big league roster. None of the remaining top names are safe bets: We\u2019re doing a lot of projecting on Arjun Nimmala, and the next several players are mostly far away or have recently battled serious injuries. This is a club that probably can swing a trade for a big piece, but Toronto is also liable to be outbid in any competitive sweepstakes. <\/p>\n There\u2019s a major drop-off following the volatile names at the top. Part of that stems from all the injuries, as a ghastly run of torn UCLs has eviscerated the org\u2019s stable of healthy pitching prospects. The Jays are also light on near-ready bats, and even the ones nearest the top of the list have their warts. Part of the explanation here is simply that contention doesn\u2019t come cheap. Toronto parted with a Top 100 prospect to acquire Shane Bieber<\/a>, and other midseason additions thinned the system further. Anthony Santander<\/a> and Dylan Cease<\/a> came at significant financial expense, and both also cost Toronto draft picks. And of course, all the winning the Jays have done in recent years has pushed them toward the back of the draft order for most of the decade. <\/p>\n The result is a system with fewer 40+-FV prospects or better than any of the other lists we\u2019ve published this cycle. There\u2019s a fair amount of 40-level depth, and odds are that one or two of them will exceed this grade; the cupboard isn\u2019t quite bare. Ordinal lists don\u2019t quite capture the way the talent in this tier stacks up, either. The gap between the sixth and 11th player on this list is pretty substantial, bigger than the gap between 11 and, say, 28. In that latter group, we\u2019re balancing injured guys with data darlings, scout favorites, and low-information players, so there\u2019s an element of picking your flavor at play here. You could rearrange the 40-FV tier in any which way and I probably wouldn\u2019t argue much. <\/p>\n It\u2019s baked into several of the blurbs but is also worth a mention on its own: The Jays are really good at building strength. Their guys get stronger and tend to do so quickly. This is a good home for interesting players with below-average (or worse) present power or velocity, and Toronto seems to take at least some players with that in mind. Jake Cook and Blaine Bullard may or may not develop more pop, but they couldn\u2019t be in a better spot to try. <\/p>\n Beyond the obvious benefits, there\u2019s an ancillary upside to getting your players physically mature quickly: It tends to tickle the models of your rivals. There are a lot of younger players here with good power or arm strength for their age, and even a sophisticated acquisition model doesn\u2019t necessarily know that these guys are physically ahead of schedule and perhaps less projectable than most their age. <\/p>\n It\u2019s one of a couple things the Jays do that prospective trade partners should keep in mind. Positional versatility is another. Toronto\u2019s players tend to move around the diamond, sometimes to spots where they don\u2019t really have any business playing. RJ Schreck and the now former Blue Jay Alan Roden<\/a>, for example, played some center field in Triple-A even though they\u2019re unlikely to spend much, if any, time there in The Show. But while models likely recognize that these are corner bats, the fact that they\u2019ve spent time in center at all may still give them an algorithmic boost out of step with their abilities. I don\u2019t know whether the Jays are playing 4D chess here, are just moving guys around out of need, or simply have a different opinion on their talent. But you have to be a little careful when mining this system. And to be clear, I mean all of this as a compliment to Toronto\u2019s front office. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kiyoshi Mio-Imagn Images Below is an analysis of the prospects in the farm system of the Toronto Blue…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-425881","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\/425881","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=425881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Angel Rivero<\/a>, RHP
Ramon Suarez<\/a>, LHP
Kennew Blanco<\/a>, IF
Cristopher Polanco<\/a>, 2B<\/p>\n
Seojun Moon, RHP
Landen Maroudis<\/a>, RHP
Lluveres Severino<\/a>, RHP
Sann Omosako<\/a>, RHP
Luis Torres<\/a>, LHP
Holden Wilkerson<\/a>, RHP
Carson Messina<\/a>, RHP
Jared Spencer<\/a>, LHP
Daniel Guerra<\/a>, RHP
Eminen Flores<\/a>, RHP<\/p>\n
Jace Bohrofen<\/a>, OF
Josh Rivera<\/a>, SS<\/p>\n
Jake Casey<\/a>, OF
Aaron Parker<\/a>, C
Andres Arias<\/a>, OF
Eddie Micheletti Jr.<\/a>, 1B
Yorman Licourt<\/a>, RF
Yeuni Munoz<\/a>, RF
Jean Joseph<\/a>, CF<\/p>\n
Eric Snow<\/a>, INF
Jaxson West<\/a>, C
J.R. Freethy<\/a>, UTIL<\/p>\n
Ryan Jennings<\/a>, RHP
Bo Bonds<\/a>, RHP
Karson Ligon<\/a>, RHP
CJ Van Eyk<\/a>, RHP
Nate Garkow<\/a>, RHP
Conor Larkin<\/a>, RHP
Hunter Gregory<\/a>, RHP <\/p>\n
Jackson Wentworth<\/a>, RHP
Lazaro Estrada<\/a>, RHP
Chad Dallas<\/a>, RHP
Austin Cates<\/a>, RHP
Gilberto Batista<\/a>, RHP
Dayne Pengelly<\/a>, RHP<\/p>\n