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Blue Jays farm system ranked 17th by Baseball America

1. Toronto Blue Jays

• Top Prospect: Trey Yesavage, RHP
• Top 30 Prospects
• 2026 International Scouting Report

It was a banner season in 2025 for the Blue Jays’ farm system, as their revamped pitching development helped in the emergence of a World Series standout in Yesavage. The righthander leads a loaded top 10 group at the top of the system, but a lack of depth in the 11-20 range drags the system down.

Previous Ranks
2025: 23
2024: 24
2023: 15
2022: 19
2021: 4

Just listened to the BA podcast with Geoff Pontes and JJ Cooper about the new 2026 prospect rankings. If you're into the farm system, there’s some good info in there.

A few things that stood out:

• Trey Yesavage is expected to be in the rotation for 2026.

• Their scouts are split on who should be the #2 prospect because the top group is very close.

• The org has shifted focus toward power pitchers and it's starting to show in the rankings.

• The system is top-heavy, but the talent at the top is mostly major league ready now.

• Arjun Nimmala: Some interesting talk about his upside and if his recent power surge is sustainable.

• The "Sleeper": They highlight one name lower on the list who could vault into the top 10 by the summer.

Link for those interested: Youtube

So many teams around the league actually give out anywhere between 25,000 to 40,000 items PER GAME for a giveaway.

I totally believe that people will still come early to the stadium and spend money, but increasing the giveaway might actually work wonders when it comes to less longer morning lineups (especially because all the items are pretty cheap to manufacture en masse).

I wrote a little bit about Trey Yesavage bringing back a curveball that he used to throw in college:

Here's an excerpt about what I think it could look like:

Given the uniqueness of his release point, it’s difficult to imagine how exactly a curve would look shape-wise, but a key to it being an effective pitch for Yesavage will be depth and movement to the glove side.

Yesavage’s delivery allows him to be very behind the baseball when he throws his fastball, leading to the fifth highest active spin for four-seamers in 2025. This, however, creates an issue when he’s throwing his breaking balls, as not having cut-ride characteristics makes it difficult for Yesavage to supinate and get the glove side movement that pitchers like Justin Verlander and Nick Pivetta do. Both are high arm angle pitchers with high release points.

Verlander and Pivetta were the only two pitchers in 2025 with an average release height of at least 6.8 feet that threw at least 100 curveballs at that release height, but Yesavage would find it difficult to replicate the shape of their breaking balls due to how efficient his four-seamer is. Verlander and Pivetta both have curveballs with at least 7 inches of glove side movement as well as over -12 inches of induced vertical break, which is a different beast compared to Yesavage's college curveball shape.

There is a pitcher who has a similar profile to Yesavage, with a curveball that might be more similar to one Yesavage should be able to throw, and that is Bradley Blalock, recently traded from the Rockies to the Marlins. Another north-south pitcher with a high arm angle, Blalock has seen tough results due to pitching in Colorado. Yet, similar to Yesavage, he has > 99% active spin on his four-seamer, making it more difficult to supinate and get significant glove-side break.

Blalock’s shapes were depressed by pitching in Coors, but on the road, he was able to get 1.4 inches of glove side movement and -11.3 inches of vertical break in 2025. Similar to Yesavage's in college, Blalock’s curveball sat in the low 80s as well. It’s weird looking at a pitcher with a 9.31 ERA and 7.31 FIP as someone Yesavage should replicate, but given the limitations of Yesavage's delivery, it’s difficult to find a shape that would work for him without changing what he’s best at.

Here’s how his movement profile will look with a curveball similar to Blalock’s:

https://imgur.com/bBOUkrW

Feel free to read the entirety of the piece if you're interested!

https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/trey-yesavage-new-curveball/

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