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Arjun Nimmala is now up to a 138 wRC+ There are only 4 players in the NWL who are younger than him (and it is only by mere months) and two other 20 year olds older than him. Of those seven 20 year old players, he's the only one hitting that well and 5 of them have a wRC+ in the 60s or 70s. He spent all of 2025 in A+ so he's New Hampshire bound before summer, I think.

Makes sense given his skill set that he might be able to just grip it and rip it against almost anything Still not sure how he sticks if everyone gets healthy

If the Jays get a Mr. 3000 with 500+ Homers it will be invaluable for the franchise Their current in-uniform leaders have 1583 hits (Fernandez) and 336 homers (Delgado) Vlad is going to end up the franchise leader, for eternity, for most counting stats other than stolen bases

Manny's K%+ is probably much higher than Vlad League K/9 was like 6.5 during Manny's first ten years. It's like 8.5 now. Despite that, Vlad's K rate is lower. I feel like we can just call him Vladdy Murray and move on EXCEPT Guerrero has that freaking 48 homer season hanging around. Reasonably I guess we cannot except Eddie Murray's longevity but we can probably expect at least a couple more 40(ish) homer seasons in his prime.

Seems like he and the Blue Jays made a joint decision that 130 good/healthy innings would be the best thing for both the 2026 team and Bieber's next free agency No need or upside in trying to make 30 starts and increasing injury risk I kind of don't think he was even hurt. Maybe they made up the dead arm thing

Yimi closed to rehab. Yimi, Rogers, Varland Fluharty and Fisher for situational relief Hoffman = RP6 go hang out with Thomas Nance

Another Nimmala double... .250 / .890 now On fire. 8 for his last 14 with two homers and two doubles

Like I said the Lenyn Sosa trade was the turning point

God forbid a manager defend his players!

The Berrios

This is what it looks like to execute a pitch

Holy s*** two more rocket outs What is going on

Jays hit four balls 100+ mph in the fourth, one hit Corbin is better than Lauer btw

Throwback Tuesday

It is Reggie Jackson, I think, and I cheated Anyway, Eddie Murray is a much better comp for Vlad

I don't f***ing know I heard it once on a podcast DYOR

Average EV is a pretty bad stat His MaxEV and other stuff show that his pop is at least average Damn, just noticed that Pinango has a 115.4 mph MaxEV this year. 4th best in AAA and it would be 11th best in MLB. uhhhhh boys Also JoJo Parker is the best hitter in A ball according to that website's little metric

Yeah it's 100% Sosa and Eloy gone They didn't trade this "Jordan Rich" guy (if he even exists) for Lenyn Sosa under the assumption that they would actually control Sosa for a long time. It was just the price of a stop-gap. Very possible Sosa stinks it up for two weeks and is then gone. But he also makes $800k and has control + some pop and hitability, so even if Toronto DFAs him they can probably trade him for "Justin Rich" or whatever. Some other causasian NPC who won't get above the FCL. Schneider, Lukes, and Straw just do too many things right as "glue guys" to even think about optioning them

Vlad is breaking out

I made a crossover thread yesterday! I think we can use it for the highlights and top prospect stuff. The in depth info and deep dives can stay in the minor league subforum.

Anecdotally this does seem to happen. I don't think he is tipping or anything because he fools hitters all the time but he will miss with back to back splitters so the LHB knows a FB is coming, for example. Stuff like that. Varying types of inconsistencies

Vlad is a ridiculous player. He is now the AL AVG leader, of course. Lowest ISO of anybody with a .400+ wOBA. Down there with XAVIER EDWARDS lmao. # Name ISO wOBA 15 Vladimir Guerrero Jr. 0.134 0.413 19 Xavier Edwards 0.141 0.406 21 Yandy Díaz 0.163 0.403 22 Kevin McGonigle 0.171 0.401 20 Liam Hicks 0.211 0.405 24 Brandon Nimmo 0.211 0.4 12 Ryan O'Hearn 0.214 0.417 14 Otto Lopez 0.217 0.414 3 Andy Pages 0.235 0.446 5 Brice Turang 0.271 0.44 4 CJ Abrams 0.273 0.44 16 Shea Langeliers 0.281 0.413 17 Dillon Dingler 0.284 0.411 9 Corbin Carroll 0.3 0.426 11 Luke Raley 0.304 0.421 13 Mike Trout 0.309 0.416 18 Matt Olson 0.311 0.41 7 Jordan Walker 0.329 0.437 8 Max Muncy 0.329 0.434 10 Brandon Lowe 0.333 0.424 6 Sal Stewart 0.349 0.438 23 Aaron Judge 0.366 0.401 2 Yordan Alvarez 0.43 0.502 1 Ben Rice 0.462 0.529

Team Leader Okamoto

We have an entire subforum for MiLB content: https://jayscentre.com/forums/forum/42-blue-jays-minor-league-talk/ ... but this thread will just be for highlights and stuff. For the people that don't care about how many innings Austin Cates threw last night, but might care about how far JoJo Parker's dingers are going these days.