Blue Jays Minor League Recap: Wins Get Handed Out Like Candy

CURRENT W-L Records

-Buffalo Bisons: 21-32
-New Hampshire Fisher Cats: 20-29
-Vancouver Canadians: 22-27
-Dunedin Blue Jays: 24-25
-FCL Blue Jays: 14-6
-DSL Blue Jays: 0-0 (Season not started)

Transactions

05/30/25 - Buffalo Bisons activated LHP Trenton Wallace.
05/30/25 - LHP Easton Lucas' roster status changed by Buffalo Bisons.
05/30/25 - Toronto Blue Jays recalled LF Alan Roden from Buffalo Bisons.
05/30/25 - Vancouver Canadians sent LHP Kendry Rojas on a rehab assignment to FCL Blue Jays.
05/29/25 - DSL Blue Jays Red activated RHP Daniel De La Cruz from the restricted list.

Buffalo Bisons

Buffalo (3), Charlotte (2) - 5/29 - Game 1

Box Score

It was an early start for the Bisons on Thursday against the Knights, but also a doubleheader day. In the first game, hitting was apparently optional for the first six innings. The Knights struck first, getting a home run by Brooks Baldwin to take a one-run lead in the fourth inning. In the sixth, an error by Leo Jimenez, who is back at Triple A following a rehab stint, allowed another run to score for the Knights. That would end the day for the Buffalo starter Lazaro Estrada. Estrada was again very good, as he continues to improve with May coming to a close. He pitched 5.2 innings, gave up just the one earned run, held the Knights to three hits, and struck out five. Down 2-0 in the bottom of the seventh, Buffalo would start a rally. Orelvis Martinez reached base to start the inning on a catcher's interference. With two outs, Will Robertson pinch-hit and blasted a home run to right field, scoring Martinez. With the game tied, Robert Brooks and Jimenez walked. Alan Roden would come to the plate and hit a walk-off single. 

Will Robertson- 1-1, 1 R, 2 RBI, 0 BB, 0 K, 1 HR

Lazaro Estrada- 5.2 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 2 BB, 5 K

Buffalo (5), Charlotte (2) - 5/29 - Game 2

Box Score

In the second game of the double header, Buffalo came out seizing on the momentum of the earlier walk-off win. The Bisons would take the lead in the bottom of the first inning on a Will Robertson single. Charlotte answered right back though, as they would line two separate RBI singles in their half of the second inning. Buffalo tied the game immediately in their frame of the inning with an RBI single from Josh Rivera. In the third, Will Robertson launched his second home run of the day to give Buffalo a two-run lead. Joey Loperfido added an insurance run in the sixth and Buffalo would win this game 5-2. 

Will Robertson- 2-3, 1 R, 3 RBI, 1 BB, 0 K, 1 HR

Justin Bruihl- 1 IP, 0 H, 0 ER, 0 BB, 2 K

Buffalo (3), Charlotte (5) - 5/30 

Box Score

Friday night started off right for Buffalo, as they jumped on the scoreboard in the bottom of the first inning. Davis Schneider singled in Leo Jimenez for the first run and a disengagement violation brought in a second. The lead was short lived; the Buffalo starting pitcher, Adam Kloffenstein, gave up two home runs and an RBI single in the top of the second inning. Buffalo tied the game in the third on a Damiano Palmegiani sacrifice fly. From there, both teams went quiet, as the game remained tied at three until the ninth inning. Charlotte would push across two runs on RBI singles and close the door on Buffalo in the bottom of the ninth to defeat the Bisons. 

Joey Loperfido- 1-3, 2 R, 0 RBI, 1 BB, 1 K, 1 2B

Adam Kloffenstein- 5 IP, 3 H, 3 ER, 4 BB, 4 K

New Hampshire Fisher Cats

New Hampshire (2), Hartford (3) -  5/29

Box Score

New Hampshire had Devereaux Harrison on the mound Thursday for the game against Hartford. For the first three innings of the game he kept Hartford in check, but used a ton of pitches to get through them. The pressure was taken off of him in the top of the first inning, as Charles McAdoo hit his third home run of the season to give New Hampshire a 1-0 lead. In the fourth inning, Harrison would get chased from the game a batter after walking in the tying run. The momentum was short-lived for Somerset, as Jace Bohrofen doubled home RJ Schreck in the following half inning. A two-RBI single by Jose Cordova gave the lead back to Somerset in the bottom of the fifth inning. New Hampshire struggled the rest of the game, only drawing one walk and not getting any more hits. They would fall to Somerset 3-2. 

Charles McAdoo 1-4, 1 R, 1 RBI, 1 K, 1 HR

McAdoo hit his third home run of the season on Thursday. He has gone on a little bit of a mini power surge since being activated off of the development list. This was his second home run in his fourth game back and he has a hit in all three games he has started. 

Michael Dominguez: 3 IP, 2 H, 0 ER, 0 BB, 3 K

With the influx of newly promoted pitchers, Dominguez may have to see more of his outings come from the bullpen. He has lowered his ERA to 1.42 on the season. 

New Hampshire (4), Hartford (3) F/10 -  5/30

Box Score

In the Friday night game between New Hampshire and Hartford, the Fisher Cats sent Juaron Watts-Brown to the mound in hopes his second start at Double A was better than his first. In the bottom of the second inning, Hartford got to Watts-Brown and made it on the scoreboard first. Watts-Brown hit Braiden Ward, who then stole second base, and ultimately scored on a Jose Cordova single. Yohendrick Pinango promptly gave the lead to New Hampshire in the top of the third inning on his eighth home run of the season, a three-run blast to right field. Hartford would score another run in the bottom of the fifth inning on a missed catch error by Peyton Williams. The play would lead to the New Hampshire manager being ejected. In the bottom of the seventh inning, Hartford tied the game up at three with an RBI single by Jose Torres. That is where the score remained, until the top of the tenth and a Pinango sacrifice fly. It would give New Hampshire the win by a score of 4-3. 

Yohendrick Pinango: 1-4, 1 R, 4 RBI, 2 K, 1 HR

Juaron Watts-Brown: 6 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 8 K

Vancouver Canadians

Vancouver (2), Hillsboro (3) - 5/29

Box Score

It was a slow day for the Canadians’ offense after a few offensive outbursts, as Hillsboro starter Daniel Eagen had a good start, striking out eight batters and only allowing three hits, two walks and no earned runs. Jackson Wentworth had more traffic on the base paths but still only allowed one run as well, leading to a close 1-0 lead for Hillsboro through six innings of work. Nate Savino was also nasty, striking out five batters in 2 1/3 innings of work and the Canadians could only muster up one hit on him, while Pat Gallagher got stung by the defense as a Sean Keys error led to a two unearned run inning for the splitter-heavy pitcher. Chay Yeager came in and pitched two solid innings for the Canadians again, which kept them close enough to threaten in the bottom of the ninth, with Eddie Micheletti Jr. hitting a two-run double to bring it within one with no outs. Gabriel Martinez moved the runner over to third with a single, but a Nick Goodwin Lineout, Nicolas Deschamps strikeout, and a Victor Arias ground out prevented them from getting over the hump. 

Eddie Micheletti Jr. - 1-3, 2 RBI, 1 2B

Micheletti Jr. knocked in the only two runs for the Canadians to spark a failed comeback in the bottom of the ninth. 

Jackson Wentworth - 5.1 IP, 8 H, 1 ER, 3 K

Wentworth had a solid start, despite giving up eight base hits and only striking out three batters on the night. Wentworth has struggled recently to generate whiffs, as hitters have been on his pitches, but he’s been able to limit the damage. 

Vancouver (8), Hillsboro (1) - 5/30

Box Score

It was a bullpen day for the Canadians, as Edinson Batista took his first start of the season since joining the Jays organization. He gave up a few hits in the first inning that allowed Hillsboro to take an early 1-0 lead, but Eddie Micheletti Jr. homered to tie it up directly in the bottom of the same inning. The inning immediately after, the Canadians loaded them up with two outs for Eddie Micheletti Jr. to come up again and deliver on a grand slam that gave the Canadians the lead for good. The bullpen finished off the game nicely, with Irv Carter, JJ Sanchez, Kai Peterson, and Jonathan Todd combining for two hits given up, one walk given up, and nine strikeouts in six innings of work. Jackson Hornung, who was a division three catcher before getting picked up by the Jays, increased the lead again in the seventh with a three RBI triple which made the game finish off at 8-1. 

Eddie Micheletti Jr. - 2-5, 2 R, 5 RBI, 2 HR

Micheletti Jr. had the game of his pro career, with a two homer night that included a grand slam to give the Canadians the lead that they ran away with. Micheletti Jr. raised his slugging percentage from .300 on May 15th to .415 in just half a month. He’s had a .474 slugging percentage throughout the month of April.

Irv Carter - 3.0 IP, 1 H, 0 ER, 3 K

Carter was placed on the development list for two weeks and struggled on his first appearance back, giving up four earned runs against Eugene on the 23rd of May. This outing went a lot better for him, as he pitched three one-hit innings and played a key role in keeping the Hops to just one run. 

Dunedin Blue Jays 

Dunedin (4), Clearwater (6) - 5/29

Box Score

The Dunedin Blue Jays faced former Phillies top prospect Griff McGary, who was just recently placed on a rehab assignment, and couldn’t do much, striking out four times in two innings of work. Zack Tukis replaced him in the third and was perhaps even better, striking out five batters in only three innings of work. Despite going down early, the D-Jays were able to get on the board after Tukis was taken out on a Sam Shaw RBI-single, and in the seventh Jacob Lojewski tied it up 3-3 for the D-Jays. Andres Gimenez hit a sac fly to give the D-Jays a lead, but Eminen Flores allowed an unearned run to tied it back up, and then Javen Coleman struggled once again allowing two runs including a Solo shot in the eighth, which blew the save for the D-Jays and they haven’t been able to come back from behind. 

Sam Shaw - 1-4, 1 RBI, 1 SB

Daniel Guerra - 5.0 IP, 4 H, 3 ER, 4 K

Guerra hasn’t been at his best as a starter, but didn’t allow a single walk and struck out four hitters over five innings. The tall righty still needs to harness his pitches but has done admirably after a few of his teammates were promoted without many replacements. 

Dunedin (4), Clearwater (10) - 5/30

Box Score

Dunedin’s slide continues even further, as they cannot break this losing streak, now six straight. After a solo homer given up in the second, poor fielding led to three unearned runs. Some weird shenanigans happened in the fourth inning, with Threshers first baseman grounding out to third and then getting ejected promptly after. The Jays got some runs back in the sixth inning, with Edward Duran extending his hit streak to 21, and Tucker Toman drove in two runs. Bryce Arnold was also taken out of the game after getting hit by a pitch earlier. After Batista was taken out Flynn and Larue struggled, with four earned runs given up by the both and a few base hits and walks. Colby Martin also gave up his first run on the season, and despite efforts from Jean Joseph or Manuel Beltre, it was hard to overcome such a lead. 

Tucker Toman - 2-4, 1 R, 2 RBI, 1 BB

Gilberto Batista - 5 IP, 3 H, 4 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 3 K

Batista continues to over-perform his expectations as a starter, allowing only one earned run (three unearned) and continues the strong pitching from starters in the Jays farm system. Sam Shaw continues to struggle defensively, making the error that resulted in those three runs scoring. 

FCL Blue Jays

F-BLU (7), F-PHI (2) - 5/29

Box Score

The Toronto Blue Jays squad set the tone early in this one with Landen Maroudis on the mound, still rehabbing from surgery last year. He went four innings in this one and only surrendered two hits, to go with one walk, while striking out two batters, and not giving up a run. Offensively, both teams were quiet until the sixth inning. That was when the Blue Jays team took the lead by a sacrifice fly from Enmanuel Bonilla. In the bottom half of the inning, the Phillies team would tie it on a Meylin De Leon home run. In the seventh, the Blue Jays would blow the game open with a bases loaded double from Yorman Licourt and a two-run triple from Aldo Gaxiola. Both teams would trade sacrifice flies, as the Blue Jays team finished this one with a 7-2 win. 

Yorman Licourt- 1-5, 2 R, 3 RBI, 0 BB, 1 K, 1 2B

Landen Maroudis- 4 IP, 2 H, 0 ER, 1 BB, 2 K

F-BLU (10), F-PHI (7) - 5/30

Box Score

In the first inning of this one, the Blue Jays team hit the ground running with five runs. David Beckles and Maykel Minoso had two-run RBI doubles and Edrick Felix an RBI single. Kendry Rojas got his first start of the season in the game, rehabbing from an early season injury. He went two innings, giving up two hits, and one walk. On the positive side, he managed to strike out three hitters. With a two-run lead, the Blue Jays team would add five runs between the fifth and seventh innings. The big hit being an Andres Arias RBI single. The Blue Jays would add one more on a Yorman Licourt double, as they would hang on for the 10-7 victory.

Andres Arias- 2-4, 1 R, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 0 K 

Kendry Rojas- 2 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 3 K

DSL Blue Jays

No games

Toronto Blue Jays Minor League Players of the Day

Pitcher of the Period: RHP Juaron Watts-Brown (New Hampshire) - 6 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 8 K

Hitter of the Period: OF Will Robertson (Buffalo) - 3-7, 2 R, 5 RBI, 2 BB, 0 K, 2 HR

Prospect Summary (Last 2 Days)

1. Arjun Nimmala (Vancouver) - 2-8, 1 R, 1 K, 1 2B
2. Ricky Tiedemann (Buffalo) - DNP
3. Trey Yesavage (Vancouver) - DNP
4. Orelvis Martinez (Buffalo) - 0-4, 1 R, 1 BB, 1 K
5. Khal Stephen (Vancouver) - DNP
6. Jake Bloss (Buffalo) - DNP
7. Alan Roden (Buffalo) - 2-4, 1 RBI, 1 K
8. Landen Maroudis (FCL Jays) - 4 IP, 2 H, 0 ER, 1 BB, 2 K
9. Jonatan Clase (Toronto) - 2-4, 2 R, 1 BB, 1 SB
10. Kendry Rojas (Vancouver) - 2 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 3 K
11. Josh Kasevich (Dunedin) - DNP
12. Johnny King (FCL Blue Jays) - DNP
13. Gage Stanifer (Vancouver) - DNP
14. Adam Macko (FCL Jays) - DNP
15. Charles McAdoo (New Hampshire) - 1-4, 1 R, 1 RBI, 1 K, 1 HR
16. Fernando Perez (Vancouver) - DNP
17. Brandon Barriera (Dunedin) - DNP
18. Emmanuel Bonilla (FCL Blue Jays) - 2-6, 2 RBI, 1 BB, 1 K
19. Juaron Watts-Brown (New Hampshire) - 6 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 8 K
20. Jace Bohrofen (New Hampshire) - 1-7, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 2 K, 1 2B

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