{"id":8851,"date":"2025-07-19T20:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T20:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/8851\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T20:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T20:09:07","slug":"blue-jays-sign-canadian-fifth-round-pick-tim-piasentin-to-above-slot-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/8851\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays sign Canadian fifth-round pick Tim Piasentin to above-slot deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The team signed third baseman and fifth-round pick Tim Piasentin to an above-slot deal of $750,000, per Sportsnet&#8217;s Shi Davidi. <\/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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/milb\/prospects\/draft\/tim-piasentin-815992\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"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>The Blue Jays signed their eighth-overall pick JoJo Parker to an under-slot, $6.2 million deal on Friday, allowing the team to spread their bonus pool to other draft picks. <\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve additionally signed Bucknam, eighth-rounder Danny Thompson Jr. and 10th-rounder Austin Smith. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The team signed third baseman and fifth-round pick Tim Piasentin to an above-slot deal of $750,000, per Sportsnet&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-8851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}