Format = Position Player | Age on 4/1/2026 | Highest Level Played | Estimated Time of Arrival
1. RHP Trey Yesavage | 22 | MLB | 2025
Yesavage became something of a household name during Toronto’s titillating post-season run despite having pitched just 13 big league innings during the regular season. Part of that was because he was amazing and so were the Blue Jays, but some of that was likely because he has a unique style that’s easy for even a casual baseball fan to recognize. I don’t know if you’ll remember Josh Collmenter. I was surprised to remember him myself, but he’s the last guy I can remember releasing at the 12’o’clock slot this way. The thing about Collmenter was he lacked velocity, sitting in the mid-80’s with his fastball and cutter (84.6 mph in his final season). Nonetheless, he had a career ERA of 3.64 and WHIP of 1.198 in 695.1 innings despite recording just 494 strikeouts. Anywho, Yesavage has a similarly deceptive release point but also has more strength and balance throughout his delivery, which helps him command a three-pitch arsenal highlighted by a dynamic splitter that tunnels well with his fastball and slider. He also throws much, much harder than Collmenter ever did, averaging 94.7 mph on the fastball, 88.7 on the slider and 84.1 on the splitter. His slowest pitch is the same speed as Collmenter’s fastest. Fun stuff. Great comp. I baseball writer. But seriously folks, I think Yesavage is going to be awesome. Heck, he already was.
2. SS Jojo Parker | 19 | NA | 2030
The Jays selected Parker eighth overall in the 2025 draft, and while they didn’t assign him to an affiliate, he drew rave reviews from the people who offer those sorts of reviews. At 6’2” 200 pounds from the left side, Parker generates plus bat speed and has power to all fields. He reminds me a little of Corey Seager: an outcome that would of course thrill the Blue Jays. If I whisper Konnor Griffin in my mind, I’m sure that’s born from some logical fallacy, and that would only be for the bat and not the speed. The thought comes unbidden and is easy to dismiss, but there’s upside in these hills.
3. SS Arjun Nimmala | 20 | A+ | 2027
The 20th overall pick in 2023, Nimmala is a 6’1” 190 pound right handed hitter with big power and a big swing that tends to miss in a fashion that’s at times reminiscent of Javy Baez. Scary sentence, that, but Baez had some monster years at the peak of his athleticism, and the Jays would be thrilled if Nimmala lands somewhere near that on the spectrum of his potential outcomes. In 120 High-A games against mostly older players, he hit 13 home runs, stole 17 bases, and struck out 21.4 percent of the time, slashing .224/.313/.381 with a 91 wRC+. The numbers don’t jump off the page, but he cut his K rate by about ten points, which makes me think he took that organizational mandate and reconstructed his approach around it. Pretty high level stuff for such a young guy.
4. RHP Gage Stanifer | 22 | AA | 2026
The Blue Jays took Stanifer out of high school in the 19th round (578th overall) in the 2022 draft and helped him develop into the kind of guy who can record a 2.86 ERA with 161 strikeouts in 110 innings across three levels in 2025. Stanifer makes it happen with a fastball-slider combo (both plus) that should be enough to make him an impact relief arm even if his changeup and command don’t develop to a starter-quality level.
5. SS Josh Kasevich | 25 | AAA | 2026
If you’re looking for major upside, move along. Kasevich’s calling cards are plus defense at shortstop and plus contact skills at the plate. Those features make him the kind of player Toronto has been building a team around. He lost most of the 2025 season to a stress reaction in his back, but if he’s healthy in spring training, he’ll be a contender to break camp with the big league club. He played 41 Triple-A games in 2024 and showed enough to earn at least a cup of coffee, slashing .325/.382/.433 with three home runs, three stolen bases and 25 strikeouts (14.5%) against 14 (8.1%) walks.
6. SS Juan Sanchez | 18 | DSL | 2030
I have Sanchez on several teams because I like to scoop the DSL breakouts that really shouldn’t hang around on the waiver wire the way they do. I’ve grown reluctant to select amateur international signings in First-Year-Player Drafts because the vast majority of them will be available when the Dominican Summer League starts and we finally get some stats on these guys. Sanchez signed for $997,500 and slashed .341/.439/.565 with eight home runs and four stolen bases in 56 DSL games. He just turned 18 and checked in at 6’3” 180 pounds on signing day. Plenty of room to grow.
7. LHP Ricky Tiedemann | 23 | AAA | 2026
Tiedemann already has tickets to see Christopher Nolan’s THE ODDYSSEY because he can so easily relate to the endless journey of finding your way back to some semblance of normalcy. He reached Triple-A in 2023 and again in 2024, but that’s the last time he pitched, totalling 51.1 innings since the start of 2023. When healthy, a low three-quarters release and blistering fastball make Tiedemann a tough look for batters from either side of the plate. At 6’4” 220 lbs, he should be able to sustain something like a starter’s workload if he can ever stay healthy, but that hasn’t been his lot in general, and then he had Tommy John surgery in July of 2024. There’s a chance that the hard reset and rebuild unlock a new level of sustainability for Tiedemann, but you’re betting against demonstrated reality to this point if you’re paying for that upside. He’s probably pretty cheap at this point though, and I’m interested if so.
8. LHP Johnny King | 19 | A | 2028
At 6’3” 210 pounds, King is more physically imposing than the typical teenage lefty. A third-round pick in 2024, he’s refined muscle and built velocity with Toronto, leading to a dominant 2025. In 61.2 innings, he allowed 44 hits and recorded a 2.48 ERA and a whopping 105 strikeouts due to a fast-developing fastball-curveball combo that all but eliminates left-handed hitters before they step in the box.
9. OF Victor Arias | 22 | AA | 2027
Here’s what I said about Arias on August 6 in Prospect News: Bolte To The Rescue or An Automatic Add:
“Arias (21, AA) earned his jump to Double-A by slashing .294/.381/.437 with five home runs and 12 stolen bases in 66 High-A games. He’s been just as effective at Double-A through 13 games, posting a 147 wRC+ and .396 on base percentage with two home runs and five stolen bases. He’s not a lock to play center field, but he has the speed to remain an option as long as he’s getting on base.”
He ran into some trouble in Double-A and slashed .226/.293/.331 in his 36 games there, but that’s not especially discouraging for a young guy in a small sample at the end of a long season.
10. RHP Jake Bloss | 23 | MLB | 2025
The 6’3” 233 pound Bloss is a thinker and a tinkerer, having built himself into a four-pitch starter whose three-quarter release gives his fastball the ride it needs to succeed atop the strike zone. It’s the Houston way, and they obviously targeted the graduate student in economics while he was thriving as Georgetown’s ace. They also taught him how to bury their trademark curveball, so he’s got the two key Astro traits of heat up, breaker down and out, and now he’s leaning into a sweeper along with the rest of the league. He’s improved in a hurry over the past couple years, and while season one with the Blue Jays didn’t add up to big league success, Bloss did pitch 11.2 innings at the big league level (albeit with a 6.94 ERA) and should be an option again in 2026.
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Not that if affects their talent, but Kasevich and Arias were left unprotected for the Rule 5 draft. I imagine at a minimum that Kasevich may no longer be a Jays property in the near future…