Blue Jays Minor League Recap: Dunedin's Losing Streak Continues and the Other Teams Also Falter

[Simon Li]

Current W-L Records

• Buffalo Bisons: 35-52
• New Hampshire Fisher Cats: 34-49
• Vancouver Canadians: 46-36
• Dunedin Blue Jays: 37-42
• FCL Blue Jays: 27-20
• DSL Blue Jays Blue: 11-15
• DSL Blue Jays Red: 11-15

Transactions

• 07/09/25 - Buffalo Bisons sent LF RJ Schreck on a rehab assignment to Dunedin Blue Jays.
• 07/08/25 - Buffalo Bisons sent RHP Eric Pardinho on a rehab assignment to FCL Blue Jays.
• 07/08/25 - Toronto Blue Jays recalled LHP Justin Bruihl from Buffalo Bisons.
• 07/08/25 - Dunedin Blue Jays sent OF Yeuni Munoz on a rehab assignment to FCL Blue Jays.
• 07/08/25 - Dunedin Blue Jays activated OF Braden Barry from the 7-day injured list.
• 07/08/25 - LHP Johan Simon assigned to Vancouver Canadians from Dunedin Blue Jays.
• 07/08/25 - RHP Holden Wilkerson assigned to Dunedin Blue Jays from FCL Blue Jays.
• 07/08/25 - New Hampshire Fisher Cats placed OF Jace Bohrofen on the 7-day injured list.
• 07/08/25 - RHP Chay Yeager assigned to New Hampshire Fisher Cats from Vancouver Canadians.
• 07/08/25 - LHP Johan Simon assigned to Vancouver Canadians from Dunedin Blue Jays.

Buffalo Bisons
Buffalo (2), Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (5) - 7/8
Box Score

Buffalo hit the ground running in the opening game of the series against the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders on Tuesday. Rainer Nunez's groundout drove in Alan Roden in the top of the fourth to get things started. Ali Sánchez singled home another run to give Buffalo the two-run lead. Immediately, though, the RailRiders responded with three runs of their own on an RBI groundout and two RBI singles. In the sixth inning, Jorbit Vivas added an RBI single to left field, and Ismael Munguia singled home a run in the eighth to put the RailRiders up three. In the ninth, Joel Kuhnel came on and got the save for the RailRiders, only surrendering a double to Christian Bethancourt. Buffalo would lose this one 5-2.

Alan Roden - 2-4, 1 R, 0 RBI, 0 BB, 0 K

Hunter Gregory - 1 IP, 0 H, 0 ER, 0 BB, 2 K

Buffalo (2), Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (7) - 7/9
Box Score

Wednesday's day game between Buffalo and Scranton/Wilkes-Barre wasn't a good one for the Bisons. The RailRiders got the scoring started in the bottom of the first via an error by the Bisons' starting pitcher CJ Van Eyk. Then they added a run on a T.J. Rumfield RBI single. In the third, they added three more runs, this time from a Jesus Rodriguez two-run home run and a Nicky Lopez RBI single. Buffalo finally got on the scoreboard in the fourth, when Michael Stefanic launched his fifth home run of the season. Yohendrick Pinango would add an RBI groundout to cut the deficit to three. That would be the extent of the Buffalo offense again in this game, as Spencer Jones tacked on a mammoth 418-foot home run and Lopez added another RBI single to give the Bisons a 7-2 loss. 

Michael Stefanic - 1-3, 1 R, 1 RBI, 0 BB, 0 K, 1 HR

Bobby Milacki - 3 IP, 1 H, 1 ER, 0 BB, 1 K

New Hampshire Fisher Cats
New Hampshire (1), Somerset (5) - 7/8
Box Score

Tuesday saw a series begin between New Hampshire and Somerset. The Fisher Cats would again have to face off against the ace of the Patriots staff, Carlos Lagrange. Facing the daunting task of opposing him was Grant Rogers for New Hampshire. Through the first five innings, the game was locked in a pitchers duel. Omar Martinez knocked in a run for Somerset with a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the second inning, and Jacob Sharp squared it back up with a solo shot in the top of the fifth inning. Unfortunately for New Hampshire, Rogers would be the first starting pitcher to crack, coughing up three more runs in the bottom of the sixth on an RBI single and a two-RBI ground-rule double. Somerset added another run in the eighth inning from a Rafael Flores home run to left field. Down four runs, New Hampshire made an attempt to rally in the ninth, with Cade Doughty getting on second base with a double. Devonte Brown came up to the plate and struck out swinging, ending the game. New Hampshire fell 5-1, only managing three hits in the game. 

Jacob Sharp: 1-3, 1 R, 1 RBI, 1 K, 1 HR

Grant Rogers: 6 IP, 6 H, 4 ER, 0 BB, 1 K

New Hampshire (1), Somerset (9) F/6 - 7/9
Box Score

Wednesday's game saw New Hampshire threaten in the first inning against Somerset's pitcher Brock Selvidge. Charles McAdoo and Jackson Hornung both walked, and then a double steal moved them to second and third base. Brown walked to load the bases, but Alex De Jesus flew out to end the inning and the scoring chance. In the bottom half of the inning, Ryan Watson was not as lucky for the Fisher Cats. He gave up three runs, highlighted by an RBI triple off the bat of Brendan Jones. Jones then provided the dagger against New Hampshire when he launched a two-run home run in the third. It was followed up two batters later by another two-run home run, this one by Tyler Hardman.

New Hampshire finally got on the scoreboard in the fifth with back-to-back singles by Ryan McCarty and McAdoo. Hornung then smacked a ball to second base for a force out, scoring McCarty. In the bottom half of the inning, Martinez blasted the third two-run home run of the game for Somerset. After a rain delay, the game was called, with New Hampshire on the wrong end of a beating, losing 9-1. 

Charles McAdoo: 1-2, 1 BB, 1 K, 1 SB

Michael Dominguez: 1 IP, 2 H, 2 ER, 1 BB, 0 K

Vancouver Canadians
Vancouver (1), Hillsboro (7) - 7/8
Box Score

The Canadians had Gage Stanifer on the mound following his longest start of the season in his most recent outing, but he faced difficulty finding the zone all day, resulting in four hits, four walks, and five earned runs, for his worst appearance of the season. Edinson Batista did his job to keep the score from getting out of hand. In the top of the sixth with the bases loaded, Eddie Micheletti Jr. had a big chance to bring the Canadians back, but he grounded into a force out to only allow one run to score, which ended up being the only run for the Canadians. An Arjun Nimmala error led to two unearned runs scoring against Julio Ortiz, and that ended up being the final score of 7-1 for the Hops.

Victor Arias - 1-3, 1 R, 2 BB

Kai Peterson - 1.2 IP, 0 ER, 2 K

Vancouver (7), Hillsboro (6) - 7/9
Box Score

Vancouver was looking to bounce back after a rough loss the previous night, and they started off strongly, with a two-run first inning after Victor Arias hit a single, took third on a passed ball, and a throwing error led to him scoring. Nimmala then walked, and Micheletti scored him with a double. Bryce Arnold added to the lead with his first High-A double to score Carter Cunningham, but after a couple of errors from Nimmala and Arias, Slade Caldwell hit a sacrifice fly, and then Druw Jones hit a homer off McElvain to tie it up. In the sixth inning, Jay Harry hit a double, Cunningham got hit by a pitch, and Arnold reached on a fielder’s choice, which scored Harry and brought Cunningham to third after Ricardo Yan threw it away. Arias got an RBI from grounding out, as Cunningham came home to add a two-run lead for the Canadians. Jonathan Todd gave the lead back, allowing two runs to score in the bottom of the seventh. The Canadians took the lead back after they loaded the bases with good baserunning and some wild pitches before Cutter Coffey hit a sac fly to give them a two-run lead again. JJ Sanchez made it interesting, as he allowed a run to score after he loaded the bases and walked in a run, but Yondrei Rojas shut the door to barely squeak by the Hops. 

Jay Harry - 3-5, 1 R, 1 2B, 1 SB

Chris McElvain - 4 IP, 3 H, 3 R (0 ER), 0 BB, 2 K

Dunedin Blue Jays 
Dunedin (0), Palm Beach (7) - 7/8
Box Score

The D-Jays continued their skid, losing their fifth game in a row, with the offense struggling to score again. As of Tuesday, they had only scored one run in their past four games. Braden Davis carved up the Blue Jays, striking out 11 and giving up only four hits with one walk. Maroudis bounced back from a poor previous outing, allowing no earned runs (one unearned) while giving up only one hit and one walk and striking out three. Gilberto Batista barely lasted more than an inning in relief, which was his shortest outing of the season. He gave up six hits and five earned runs to put the Jays in a big hole. At that point, the Jays' offense couldn’t come to life, and they suffered a tough loss against the Cardinals. 

Edward Duran - 3-4, 1 K
Duran was the designated hitter and had his fifth three-hit game of the season. 

Landen Maroudis - 4 IP, 1 H, 1 R (0 ER), 1 BB, 3 K
Maroudis has now pitched three out of four appearances with zero earned runs after coming back to Dunedin. He did a good job of mixing his pitches and avoided hard contact all game. 

Dunedin (2), Palm Beach (3) - 7/9 - F/10
Box Score

The Blue Jays tried to bounce back from another tough loss, but this time dropped a heartbreaker in extra innings. They struck first in the top of the second, with Kendry Chirinos knocking in the first run of the game on a single that scored Tucker Toman after he walked and stole second. Austin Cates kept the game scoreless before handing the pill to Daniel Guerra, who pitched 2.2 scoreless innings before he allowed two stolen bases after a single from Deniel Ortiz, and then threw a wild pitch that let the Cardinals tie it up. The Jays scored a run themselves on a wild pitch, but that’s all they got, and former Jays farmhand Sammy Hernandez scored after a single given up by Jay Schueler, who then gave up a walk-off hit for the Jays to lose their sixth straight. 

Edward Duran - 2-5

Austin Cates - 5 IP, 4 H, 0 ER, 1 BB, 4 K
Cates had continued to excel after many of his peers were promoted. He’s now pitched to a 1.71 ERA over his last nine appearances, and his high-rising fastball and splitter have been nigh unhittable. 

FCL Blue Jays
F-BLU (2), F-YAN (4) - 7/8
Box Score

The Blue Jays' Complex League squad took on the Yankees' team on Tuesday, and it was another low-hitting affair. The Yankees' team got things started in the second inning with an RBI single from Luis Escudero. Dariel Ramon's RBI single in the third answered right back to tie the game at one. The next inning, Escudero homered to put the Yankees up by two. A rehabbing Yeuni Munoz rocketed a double in the fifth to drive in Ramon, putting the Blue Jays down one. The Yankees would put this one away with an RBI infield single to third base in the sixth inning. The Blue Jays' team would lose 4-2. 

Yeuni Munoz - 1-3, 0 R, 1 RBI, 0 BB, 0 K, 1 2B

Eric Pardinho - 1 IP, 0 H, 0 ER, 1 BB, 1 K

DSL Blue Jays Blue 
D-BJB (0), D-MRN (1) - 7/8
Box Score

The only bright spot in Tuesday's game between BJB and MRN was starting pitcher Jose Andrades. He went five innings, gave up only three hits, one run, walked none, and struck out four. The lone run came in the bottom of the first inning, when MRN got a home run from DSL standout Yorger Bautista, his sixth of the season. From there, the game turned almost unwatchable. BJB only recorded two hits on the day and struck out 14 times. MRN wasn't any better, adding three more hits to their total. The game ended in a 1-0 loss for BJB.

Juarlin Soto: 1-3, 1 K

Jose Andrades: 5 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 0 BB, 4 K

DSL Blue Jays Red
D-BJR (1), D-GIB (8) - 7/8
Box Score

BJR joined the other Blue Jays DSL team in struggling to hit down on the island. After coughing up a run in the top of the second inning, BJR got it back in the bottom of the third. Renyel Campos walked, followed by a Juan Sanchez single to left field. Elaineiker Coronado would then single in Campos to square the game back up at one apiece. From there, they only managed to get two more base knocks, but surrendered eight runs on their way to being blown out in this one, 8-1. 

Elaineiker Coronado: 2-3, 2 BB

Erinyel Marquez: 2 IP, 1 H, 0 ER, 1 BB, 3 K

Toronto Blue Jays Minor League Players of the Period

• Pitcher of the Period: RHP Landen Maroudis (Dunedin) - 4 IP, 1 H, 1 R (0 ER), 1 BB, 3 K
• Hitter of the Period: C Edward Duran (Dunedin) - 5-9, 0 R, 0 RBI, 0 BB, 2 K

Prospect Summary (Last 2 Days)

Toronto Blue Jays Top 20 Hitters
Rank	Player	Team	PA	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	K	SB	CS
1	Arjun Nimmala	Vancouver	10	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	0	0
5	Alan Roden	Buffalo	8	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	Orelvis Martinez	Buffalo	8	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
11	Yohendrick Pinango	Buffalo	8	1	3	1	0	0	1	0	2	0	0
13	Josh Kasevich	Dunedin	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
14	Jonatan Clase	Buffalo	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
17	RJ Schreck	Buffalo	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
19	Sam Shaw	Dunedin	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	0
20	Victor Arias	Vancouver	15	2	2	0	0	0	1	3	2	0	0

Toronto Blue Jays Top 20 Pitchers
Rank	Player	Team	BF	G	GS	IP	H	HR	ER	BB	K
2	Trey Yesavage	New Hampshire	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Ricky Tiedemann	Buffalo	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Khal Stephen	Vancouver	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
7	Johnny King	Dunedin	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8	Kendry Rojas	New Hampshire	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9	Landen Maroudis	Dunedin	14	1	1	4	1	0	0	1	3
10	Gage Stanifer	Vancouver	15	1	1	2.2	4	0	5	4	2
12	Jake Bloss	Buffalo	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
15	Juaron Watts-Brown	New Hampshire	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
16	Adam Macko	Buffalo	19	1	1	3.2	5	0	3	3	3
18	Brandon Barriera	FCL Jays	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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