DUNEDIN, Fla. -- There's bad luck, and then there's the bad luck endured by several of the Blue Jays' top pitching prospects in 2024. Landen Maroudis and Brandon Barriera -- two of the club's current top 15 prospects -- underwent elbow surgeries early last year, knocking them out for the

DUNEDIN, Fla. -- The star of spring is headed to the big leagues. Alan Roden has made the Blue Jays. The Blue Jays’ No. 5 prospect was singled out by GM Ross Atkins earlier in camp -- a rare move from this front office -- and delivered in every way

DUNEDIN, Fla. -- There is a man they call The Iowa Meat Truck. You can spot Peyton Williams from five fields away. He looks like everyone else’s bodyguard, a hulking, throwback first baseman who makes a baseball bat look like a pencil in his hands. “We’ve been high on P-Willy

DUNEDIN, Fla. -- Trey Yesavage knows how to make a first impression, even if he has had to wait a while. Pitching in his first pro game since being drafted in the first round last July, Yesavage – the Blue Jays’ No. 2 prospect per MLB Pipeline – used his

DUNEDIN, Fla. -- Given the uncertain futures of Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Bo Bichette, questions about the future of the Blue Jays will hang over this season. This year’s Spring Breakout game will give you a look at some of the potential answers.

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PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. -- While Alan Roden wanted to study the universe, it seems the universe has other plans. At this point, it seems the universe has not let him down. Roden, since being selected by Toronto in the third round of the 2022 MLB Draft, has done nothing but

DUNEDIN, Fla. -- There’s never been a better time for the Blue Jays’ farm system to turn things around. With so much uncertainty facing this organization beyond 2025, the final year of Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Bo Bichette’s contracts, Toronto needs to start developing its next era. That’s been a

DUNEDIN, Fla. -- For years now, the Blue Jays have hoped and prayed that Orelvis Martinez develops into a solid defender. Nothing flashy, just solid. There’s plenty of time for that to happen for the 23-year-old, but Martinez’s thundering bat could push the Blue Jays’ patience here. Each spring, we’re

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The Blue Jays’ path back to the postseason begins with amassing young talent. They may not have landed their white whale – No. 1 international prospect Roki Sasaki – but they believe they’ve still added impact potential with shortstop Cristopher Polanco, the No. 22 prospect in the 2025 international class,

Welcome to the final MLB Pipeline Inbox of 2024! We’re about to enter into the holiday season and I’m in a giving mood, and clearly you were, too, given the volumes of questions folks sent in. I’m going to give a hat tip to frequent contributor Stevie D., who asked

Ever since Roki Sasaki's agent, Joel Wolfe, met with the media at the Winter Meetings, there’s been speculation about which team might be the best fit to land the prized right-hander, who was recently posted by his Japanese team, the Chiba Lotte Marines. As one executive put it when asked

MLB Pipeline gives our organizational Top 30 prospect rankings complete refreshes twice per calendar year (once in spring, once in-season) and provides other live updates as graduations and other transactions necessitate them. In the latter category, two dates in particular are our busiest for Top 30 updates: the Trade Deadline

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Each week, MiLB.com profiles an elite prospect by chronicling the steps he's taken toward achieving his Major League dream. Here's a look at third-ranked Blue Jays prospect Jake Bloss. For more stories about players on The Road to The Show, click here. It’s easy to forget that Jake Bloss just

Yariel Rodríguez made history in 2024 when he became the first Cuban-born pitcher to take the mound for the Blue Jays. While Rodríguez was an impact signing in February for $32 million, Kendry Rojas was a much more under-the-radar addition to the organization’s farm system when he signed for $215,000

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