Two-thirds of the latest Top 30 Toronto Blue Jays prospect list by Baseball America has Vancouver Canadians ties.
The list is below with the year or years in parentheses denoting when each player donned a C’s jersey, including 13 who appeared in 2022.
- 1. Ricky Tiedemann, LHP (2022)
- 2. Yosver Zulueta, RHP (2022)
- 4. Addison Barger, 3B/SS (2021-2022)
- 5. Orelvis Martinez, 3B/SS (2021)
- 8. Hayden Juenger, RHP (2021)
- 9. Nate Pearson, RHP (2017)
- 12. Dahian Santos, RHP (2022)
- 13. Dasan Brown, OF (2022)
- 14. Gabby Martinez, OF (2022)
- 15. Otto López, UTIL (2018)
- 16. Sem Robberse, RHP (2021 + 2022)
- 17. Hagen Danner, RHP (2021)
- 18. Spencer Horwitz, 1B/OF (2019 + 2021)
- 19. Leo Jiménez, SS (2022)
- 22. Alejandro Melean, RHP (2021-2022)
- 24. Zach Britton, C/OF (2022)
- 25. Damiano Palmegiani, 3B/1B (2022)
- 26. Rainer Nuñez, 1B (2022)
- 29. C.J. Van Eyk, RHP (2021)
- 30. Trent Palmer, RHP (2022)
TSN baseball columnist Scott Mitchell unveiled his top 50 Jays prospect list (50-26 and 25-1) in late January. There are 19 former C’s in the top 30 and 30 out of 50.
- 1. Ricky Tiedemann, LHP (2022)
- 3. Orelvis Martinez, 3B/SS (2021)
- 4. Yosver Zulueta, RHP (2022)
- 6. Addison Barger, 3B/SS (2021-2022)
- 9. Sem Robberse, RHP
- 10. Dahian Santos, RHP
- 11. Gabby Martinez, OF (2022)
- 13. Nate Pearson, RHP (2017)
- 14. Hayden Juenger, RHP (2021)
- 15. Spencer Horwitz, 1B/OF (2019, 2021-2022)
- 16. Otto López, UTIL (2018)
- 17. Dasan Brown, OF (2022)
- 19. Leo Jiménez, SS (2022)
- 23. Alex De Jesus, 3B/SS (2022)
- 24. Adrian Hernández, RHP (2021)
- 25. Hagen Danner, RHP (2021)
- 27. Rainer Nuñez, 1B (2022)
- 28. Damiano Palmegiani, 3B/1B (2022)
- 29. Trent Palmer, RHP (2022)
- 31. Zach Britton, C/OF (2022)
- 32. Tanner Morris, 2B/3B (2019, 2021)
- 33. Davis Schneider, 2B/LF (2019, 2021-2022)
- 36. C.J. Van Eyk, RHP (2021)
- 37. Chad Dallas, RHP (2022)
- 38. Jimmy Robbins, LHP (2022)
- 43. Alejandro Melean, RHP (2021-2022)
- 44. Adam Kloffenstein, RHP (2019, 2021-2022)
- 45. Rafael Lantigua, UTIL (2021)
- 47. Miguel Hiraldo, 2B (2022)
- 48. Michael Dominguez, RHP (2022)
Mitchell also lists where he expects each prospect to begin the 2023 minor league season. He projects Dominguez (48), Dallas (37), Van Eyk (36), Nuñez (27), De Jesus (23), Brown (17), Gabby Martinez (11) and Santos (10) returning to Vancouver this year. Other prospects Mitchell expects to head to Monty’s Mounties include third baseman/second baseman Cade Doughty (7), lefthander Adam Macko (8) and shortstop Josh Kasevich (22). Doughty and Kasevich were taken in the second round of the 2022 draft while Macko was acquired from Seattle in the Teoscar Hernández deal.
In 2022, Mitchell correctly predicted that Palmer, Dallas, Hiraldo, Kloffenstein, Jiménez and Robberse would open the year in Vancouver. The only prediction that was off the mark was 2019 and 2021 outfielder Will Robertson getting a third tour of duty with Vancouver. He was assigned to the Double-A New Hampshire Fisher Cats instead. Mitchell was also correct about Orelvis Martinez starting the 2022 campaign with New Hampshire and not Vancouver as some observers expected.
Other notable Blue Jays prospect lists for your consideration.
- D.M. Fox also gives his thoughts in his newsletter on where his top 20 Jays prospects will begin 2023 (20-11 and 10-1).
- Former FanGraphs writer Marc Hulet also gives a list of 15 players who could be in YVR this year.
- Batter’s Box published its top 30 Jays prospects which Gerry McDonald and myself teamed up to produce (30-21, 20-11 and 10-1). Gerry also chatted prospects with The Athletic‘s Keith Law.
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