Blue Jays Select JoJo Parker Eighth Overall In 2025 MLB Draft

With their first pick, and the eighth overall pick in the 2025 MLB Draft, The Blue Jays have selected JoJo Parker, an 18-year-old shortstop. He is 6’2, 195-pounds and from Purvis Highschool in Mississippi. He was ranked ninth overall on the Jays Centre’s Mock Board. 

The eighth overall pick comes with a slot value of $6,813,600.

The biggest appeal to Parker’s profile is his ability to swing the bat, with an impressive hit-tool and already solid power, even as a prep player.

At just 18 years old, Parker is built solid at 6’2, and nearly 200-pounds. His left handed swing starts with a narrow base, and the movements are smooth and quiet as he progresses through load, stride and contact. His ability to get bat on the ball is polished, and at times flashes some power.

The rest of Parker’s tools are considered average, so his ability to hit will make or break his professional career, as it does with most position player prospects. Even still, there is hope that Parker will be able to stick at shortstop in the near-term, even if he ends up at second or third base by the time he ends up in the big leagues.

There’s a lot of upside to JoJo Parker’s offensive profile, and if he develops into a legitimate power threat that some think he will, he could end up being the best hitter taken in the draft.

JoJo’s twin brother Jacob Parker is ranked 88th on our Mock Board, which is right in the range of the Jays’ third round pick at 81st overall, so there is a (extremely unlikely) chance that the Blue Jays look to keep the brothers together in pro-ball.

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