Blue Jays Minor League Recap: Dallas Continues To Get Better, Stanifer Sizzles, and Perry Keeps On Rocking

Blue Jays Affiliate Overview (May 14-May 15)

Triple-A Buffalo Bisons
Series vs Worcester Red Sox (Boston Red Sox): 3-1: 
Season Record: 22-21

Double-A New Hampshire Fisher Cats 
Series vs Reading Fighting Phils (Philadelphia Phillies): 2-2
Season Record: 21-13

High-A Vancouver Canadians
Series vs Everett AquaSox (Seattle Mariners): 2-1
Season Record: 15-21

Single-A Dunedin Blue Jays
Series vs Tampa Tarpons (New York Yankees): 1-3
Season Record: 14-23

FCL Blue Jays
Week Record: 2-1
Season Record: 9-1

Triple-A Buffalo Bisons

• Season Record: 20-21
• Series vs Worcester Red Sox

May 14: On Thursday, Buffalo sent Chad Dallas to the mound to start the game against the Worcester Red Sox. He has quickly climbed the ladder of the Bisons’ rotation and might in fact be the best starting pitcher they have right now. While he won't go deep into games just yet, he continues to build back up after recovering from Tommy John surgery. In Thursday's game, he started out a little shaky, but then finished his outing strong. In the top of the first inning, he gave up a lead-off home run to Nick Sogard, then a single and a walk. He managed to escape the inning without giving any more runs up, thanks to Nate Eaton getting caught stealing after his single. It would be the second inning that got him going. He struck out two and got a flyout for the easy 1-2-3 inning. Buffalo's bat woke up in the bottom half of the inning, dropping four runs on Worcester starter Jake Bennett. The scoring was highlighted by RBI singles from Josh Rivera and Ryan McCarty, and it was capped off by an RBI double to right field by RJ Schreck. Dallas would strike out two more batters in the third inning, on his way to completing a shutdown inning following the scoring barrage from the offense. He would end his day after the fourth inning, only giving up the one run and striking out five. The bullpen came in for him and kept going strong. Devereaux Harrison, Brendan Cellucci, and Jesse Hahn combined to throw four shutout innings and handed it off to Chase Lee for the ninth. Lee struggled, though, surrendering a single and a two-run home run, before getting the final out and earning the save. Buffalo would take the game 4-3 and get back to the .500 mark. 

May 15: On Friday night, the Toronto Blue Jays finally got a glimpse of Josh Kasevich and what he was supposed to be. After missing a lot of 2025, he has been getting into a groove at the plate, and it all came together for him to help lead the Bisons to a victory. He would finish the night going 3-for-4 and knocked in three runs on three RBI singles. His first came in the bottom of the first, scoring RJ Schreck. The second would come two innings later and knock in Je'Von Ward. Then the last RBI single came in the bottom of the fifth and plated Ward again. Ward wasn't done helping Buffalo, though; his monster game was capped off in the bottom of the seventh, when he launched his second home run of the season. On the mound, Buffalo got a good start from CJ Van Eyk, as he pitched into the seventh inning and only gave up two runs on the night. Tanner Andrews secured the win with a four-out save, while striking out two. Buffalo finally pulled their head above the .500 mark with a 5-2 win. 

Double-A New Hampshire

• Season Record: 21-13
• Series vs Reading Fighting Phils (Philadelphia Phillies)

May 14: Postponed

May 15, Game 1: In the first game of the Friday doubleheader against the Reading Fightin Phils, Gage Stanifer was the starting pitcher for New Hampshire, and he unlocked the next level of his pitching evolution. He went five innings on 76 pitches, 51 of them for strikes. He gave up four hits, two walks, and two runs (one earned), while striking out nine. The unearned run scored in the first inning when Stanifer made an errant pickoff throw, and the second run in the third on a single. Overall, Stanifer was spectacular, though. He mixed his pitches well and quite frequently used his split, which was the best version he has displayed in the minor leagues. He generated 15 whiffs and looked dominant and in control of his pitches throughout the game. On the offensive side, Victor Arias hit his third home run at Double A, this time in the sixth inning to tie the game. In the top of the seventh, an Austin Murr home run gave Reading a two-run lead. New Hampshire would lose 4-2. 

May 15, Game 2: The second game of the doubleheader didn't go any better for New Hampshire, despite swapping home/away with Reading. Arjun Nimmala went 2-for-3, Jay Harry homered. And Sean Keys had another double. Cutter Coffey supplied the only other hit, as New Hampshire struggled to score. In the fifth inning, Alex Binelas hit a double to center field that would score two runs. Down two, Victor Arias made it closer by driving in a run on a groundout. That would be as close as it got, though, as the Fisher Cats lost this one 3-2. 

High-A Vancouver 

• Season Record: 15-21
• Series vs Everett AquaSox (Seattle Mariners)

May 14: Nolan Perry continues to show excellence in his breakout season, striking out double-digit batters for the second time already this season in just five scoreless innings. He did allow three walks and three hits, and he loaded the bases in the fifth but managed to get out of it. The offense also did its job, with Maddox Latta knocking in the first run on a sac fly in the bottom of the second, and J.R. Freethy added another run in the fourth inning on an RBI groundout to make it two to nothing. But the game truly broke open in the fifth inning, as after an Alexis Hernandez single, Carter Cunningham smoked his eighth homer of the season to right field to double the lead. Jacob Sharp had his own RBI groundout in the seventh, and Brennan Orf put the game nearly out of reach with a two-RBI single in the eighth. Juanmi Vasquez had his best appearance of the season, going 2.2 innings, allowing only one hit and striking out three. Eminen Flores allowed two runs in the ninth inning, but Jonathan Todd replaced him and earned his second save of the season to get Vancouver a much-needed win. 

May 15: Postponed

Single-A Dunedin

• Season Record: 14-23
• Series vs Tampa Tarpons (New York Yankees)

May 14: It was close for the entire game, as Troy Guthrie took the mound for the Jays and the rehabbing Chase Hampton took it for the Tarpons. The Jays were able to get on the board first with Blaine Bullard scoring Owen Gregg on a groundout, and a Hampton wild pitch allowed Dariel Ramon to score that same inning. The Tarpons answered right back as Guthrie gave up an RBI groundout of his own, before giving up a solo shot to Jackson Lovich to even it up. Guthrie allowed another homer in the fourth to give up the lead, but in the top of the sixth inning, the Jays reclaimed the lead after Yorman Licourt hit an RBI double and Aldo Gaxiola scored him right after with a single. Austin Smith blew the save on a wild pitch in the bottom of the sixth, and with the score tied in the bottom of the eighth inning, the bullpen faltered again, this time with Jack Eshleman taking the L with Lovich hitting his second homer of the day against him, resulting in a close 5-4 loss for the Jays.

May 15: The Jays were able to steal a close one today, as Silvano Hechavarria is still showing some rust after coming back from the injured list. He had a clean first inning despite two walks, and the Jays gave him the lead with an Aldo Gaxiola two-run shot and a Jake Cook sac fly to put them up early. Hechavarria couldn’t get out of the second inning, however, as he loaded the bases on a hit by pitch, a single, a balk, and a walk to start the inning. He got a flyout and a strikeout, but walked yet another batter, leading to Carson Myers replacing him. Myers caught the walking bug and walked in another run before giving up a two-run double to Luis Puello to lose the lead for the Jays. The Jays slowly climbed their way back as Gaxiola got his third RBI of the day on a groundout to bring it within one, and in the fourth inning, JoJo Parker tied it up with an RBI single. Myers was able to pitch well heading into the fifth inning, but was replaced mid-inning by Luis Fonseca, who got out of the fifth inning but allowed a three-run homer in the sixth inning to once again put the Jays in a hole. Juan Rosas inched it closer with an RBI single after pinch-hitting for Edward Duran in the eighth, and a Jake Cook RBI groundout led to an Eric Snow single to tie it up and send it to extras. Josbel Garcia pitched 3.1 scoreless innings in his Dunedin debut, and in the top of the 10th, Gaxiola had RBI number four to give the Jays the lead, and Lluveres Severino was able to prevent the ghost runner from scoring in the bottom of that inning, as the Jays just squeaked by the Tarpons. 

FCL Blue Jays

• Season Record: 9-1

May 14: In the Thursday game between the FCL Blue Jays and the FCL Tigers, the game was a slugfest from the start. Cris Rodriguez homered for the Tigers squad in the second inning to put them up by five early. In the third, the Tigers would add home runs from Ronald Ramirez and Steven Madero. Renyel Campos launched a home run for the Blue Jays team in the bottom half of the inning, which was followed up by an Andres Arias RBI single and a bases-loaded walk. Angel Guzman and Pascual Archila would homer for the Blue Jays as well in the sixth and seventh innings, respectively. It wasn't enough though, as the Blue Jays squad would lose this one 11-8. 

May 15: The FCL Jays got another win on Friday, and it was in part thanks to a one-man show at the plate. Sam White, who the Toronto Blue Jays signed as an undrafted free agent, was the star of the game. He hit two solo home runs, the first came in the fourth inning. The second solo home run he would launch in the sixth, which would prove to be the game winner. In between those home runs, Angel Guzman added a two-run double in the fifth, scoring Pascual Archilla and Keegan Pieternella. The only other hit they would have in the game was a single by Sam Smith. On the mound, Angel Rivero had a nice start. He pitched 3.2 innings, surrendered five baserunners, two runs (none earned), and struck out four. The FCL Jays won 4-3.

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