Fangraphs' Toronto Blue Jays Top 40 Prospects

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https://blogs.fangraphs.com/toronto-blue-jays-top-40-prospects/

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Our Rule 5 pick Angel Bastardo got a great ranking and write up. He might be a guy and it seems like we can probably manipulate his TJS recovery to keep him into next year which will give us a longer look at him.

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I also found this to be interesting:

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There are rumors in the international scouting community that they already have a 2028 player committed for around $4.5 million.

Does anyone know who they could be talking about?

[Barrelsandbombs]

1 hour ago, Terminator said:

I also found this to be interesting:

Does anyone know who they could be talking about?

 

[max silver]

 

17 minutes ago, Barrelsandbombs said:

 

April Fools?

[BB17]

They really need to do something with the IFA bonuses/agreements. Having guys sign handshake deals at 12/13 years old has gotten way out of hand.

[Spanky99]

5 hours ago, BB17 said:

They really need to do something with the IFA bonuses/agreements. Having guys sign handshake deals at 12/13 years old has gotten way out of hand.

I think Alex did that when Vlad was 14, heard him hitting bombs in a backfield lol... 12 is insane. Agreed, it's gotten way out of hand around 10 years ago. Most likely April fools tweet.

ETA: Yeah that was an April fools tweet. This kid is 14 and I hope they do sign this kid, here's his profile from Perfect Game...

 https://www.perfectgame.org/Players/Playerprofile.aspx?ID=1224689

[Laika]

Any news articles or tweets about the Jays remaining IFA budget (Sasaki strikeout money...) for the current period and who they might be able to spend it on? 

[Brownie19]

12 years old.  What a f*cking joke.  It's almost embarrassing that any teams are partaking in this.  Gross.

[Barrelsandbombs]

On 4/1/2025 at 7:07 PM, max silver said:

 

April Fools?

 

On 4/2/2025 at 1:49 AM, Spanky99 said:

I think Alex did that when Vlad was 14, heard him hitting bombs in a backfield lol... 12 is insane. Agreed, it's gotten way out of hand around 10 years ago. Most likely April fools tweet.

ETA: Yeah that was an April fools tweet. This kid is 14 and I hope they do sign this kid, here's his profile from Perfect Game...

 https://www.perfectgame.org/Players/Playerprofile.aspx?ID=1224689

Nope, I think they were just badly timed posts by doing it on April 1st. Probably should have just waited until April 2nd so people would have believed them.

https://x.com/hgomez27/status/1947853833582817739

[John_Havok]

7 hours ago, Barrelsandbombs said:

 

Nope, I think they were just badly timed posts by doing it on April 1st. Probably should have just waited until April 2nd so people would have believed them.

https://x.com/hgomez27/status/1947853833582817739

Not sure how the Jays know they'll even have 5.7 million available in 2028... not that I can read Spanish at all.

[Laika]

19 hours ago, John_Havok said:

Not sure how the Jays know they'll even have 5.7 million available in 2028... not that I can read Spanish at all.

I think the minimum every team gets is like $4.75m

[John_Havok]

1 hour ago, Laika said:

I think the minimum every team gets is like $4.75m

Kid is clearly a monster for his age, but ... who knows how that tracks over the next two. Obviously it's not written in stone that he's signing but for a kid to be his age, playing against 17 and 18 year olds... that's impressive. 

[43211234]

Did the international money from the Straw trade ever get used?

[Spanky__99]

On 7/25/2025 at 1:27 PM, 43211234 said:

Did the international money from the Straw trade ever get used?

Yes, on the Korean High schooler.