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Here are the Top 10 LHP prospects for 2023 While just four left-handed pitchers cracked our soon-to-be-unveiled 2023 Top 100, the lowest number since we began doing prospect lists in 2004, the position is far from bereft in talent. Several southpaws stand out for their ability to miss bats. Kyle Harrison (Giants) led the Minors in strikeout percentage (39.8) in 2022, and Ricky Tiedemann (Blue Jays) would have ranked right behind him (38.9) if he had enough innings to qualify. Harrison also topped the Minors in whiffs per nine innings (14.8), with DL Hall (Orioles) posting a similar rate (14.6) as a non-qualifier. The 2022 Draft was deep in lefties with Top 100 upside. Brandon Barriera (Blue Jays) and Noah Schultz (White Sox) both went in the first round as high schoolers, while fellow prepsters Robby Snelling (Padres) and Jackson Ferris (Cubs) commanded $3 million bonuses as later picks. Cooper Hjerpe (Cardinals) was the best healthy and active college southpaw in a crop affected by injuries to Connor Prielipp (Twins), Hunter Barco (Pirates) and Reggie Crawford (Giants) and a suspension for Carson Whisenhunt (Giants). The Top 10 (ETA) 1. Kyle Harrison, Giants (2023) 2. Ricky Tiedemann, Blue Jays (2024) 3. Ken Waldichuk, Athletics (2023) 4. DL Hall, Orioles (2023) 5. Dax Fulton, Marlins (2024) 6. Jordan Wicks, Cubs (2023) 7. Matthew Liberatore, Cardinals (2023) 8. Jake Eder, Marlins (2024) 9. Brandon Barriera, Blue Jays (2026) 10. Blake Walston, D-backs (2023)

Is this a joke??? The top 6 Im ok with but Mr Chapman needs to be at least 7. Also added is the Jays reply

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I thought Varsho was now #25

Yeah no takers on a big league deal so he signed a MILB contract.

Yeah said he knew at the end of last season he was done.

It looks like a Garth Iorg stance, cant remember his number though

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2023/01/big-hype-prospects-florial-tiedemann-amaya-tovar-vargas.html Big Hype Prospects: Tiedemann Ricky Tiedemann, 20, SP, TOR (AA) (A/A+/AA) 78.2 IP, 13.4 K/9, 3.3 BB/9, 2.17 ERA A 2021 third-round draftee, Tiedemann is on the shortlist with the likes of Andrew Painter and Eury Perez for best pitching prospect aged 20 and under. We’ve covered him a few times within the confines of this column. The Blue Jays appear headed toward a Spring Training battle for the fifth starter role, and Tiedemann is an attractive (albeit longshot) option for the job. The southpaw has three plus pitches, although reports suggest he could do with more time in the minors to better learn how to command his offerings. An Opening Day roster spot seems implausible, but we could see Tiedemann in Toronto by midseason. One caveat is his workload, as he averaged just over four innings per start last season and typically faced between 17 and 20 batters. Between low per-outing and total innings, Tiedemann might be more focused on stretching out than contributing in 2023.

Two things: Spotrac is reporting this Emmanuel Bonilla OF Dominican Republic TOR $4,100,000 David Guzman OF Venezuela TOR $650,000 Samuel Acuna P Venezuela TOR $300,000 Anderson Barbosa P Colombia TOR Also Some reports have it as Barbosa and some Barvosa...we shall find out soon. Guzman is showing at $650 and Acuna 300 doesnt eave much for the others. If those #s are right, thats $5,050,000 with those 3

I dont see Junior Arias in the second list, He was rated high on Fangraphs list so hopefully the agreement didnt fall apart and its just a late report

Got a half hr to listen about Jays top prospects....

https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/2023-mlb-international-signing-agreements-tracker/ Toronto Blue Jays ($5,284,000) Enmanuel Bonilla, OF, Dominican Republic 4.1 mil Anderson Barbosa, LHP, Colombia Barbosa is the third guy we have heard of Jays signing today along with Arias and Bonilla. There will be more

I think when Alomar was caught in that scandal, They removed all honours for him.

https://www.sportsnet.ca/mlb/article/pitching-prospect-macko-joins-blue-jays-with-high-hopes-and-high-strikeout-rates?fbclid=IwAR0MwEIpWHtfoliqhPrbH-SKv5Niu-lHJf5S2jWUnMzU-8Va_lpALCAobmo Pitching prospect Macko joins Blue Jays with high hopes – and high strikeout rates As the Toronto Blue Jays and Seattle Mariners completed the mid-November trade that saw Teoscar Hernandez swap teams with Erik Swanson and Adam Macko, the young left-handed pitcher was asleep. A phone call from Andy McKay, the Mariners' senior director of player development, woke Macko unexpectedly. Though he’d never been traded before, the recently turned 22-year-old had a hunch he might be on the move when he saw McKay’s name on his phone. "I don’t think I’ve ever received a call from him, so I had a feeling that it meant I might have been traded," Macko said over Zoom. "At that point, I was sad to be leaving the Mariners. They’re a great organization where I’ve made so many memories and built so many relationships. "It was my first trade, so I wasn’t really sure what to expect." What came next for the 6’0" lefty was a whirlwind couple of months. He had to re-schedule his first-ever vacation so he could complete his physicals at the Blue Jays' spring training facility in Dunedin, Fla., travelling there from his off-season home in Vancouver. Of course, travelling and moving aren’t exactly new to the Slovakian-born pitcher. Macko has taken an unusual path to the professional ranks, starting in a country "where baseball is unheard of," as he put it. After moving from Slovakia to Ireland at 11 and then to Stony Plain, Alta., just over a year later, he settled in at southern Alberta’s Vauxhall Academy of Baseball, where he played until Seattle selected him in the seventh round of the 2019 MLB Draft. During his formative years in baseball, YouTube gave him his introduction to pitching. Macko would watch videos of MLB stars Justin Verlander and David Price, emulating two of the game’s best. His admiration for Price converged with his rooting interests when the Cy Young winner was traded to the Blue Jays during the summer of 2015. "Once I got to Canada, obviously the team to support was the Blue Jays, so they were the first team I would watch religiously and support, so I'm beyond excited to be a Blue Jay," Macko said. "Once Price got traded to Toronto, it was awesome. I loved watching them play. I remember watching the Jose Bautista bat flip … it was probably the most exciting baseball moment that I’ve watched." Fast forward seven years, and Macko now finds himself as the eighth-best prospect in the Blue Jays farm system, per MLB Pipeline. His four-pitch arsenal features a fastball that sits around 93 m.p.h. and has topped out at 97 along with a curveball, slider and change-up. He joins the Blue Jays organization with 95 career minor league innings under his belt, 38.1 of which came in 2022 for the Everett AquaSox, the Mariners’ high-A affiliate. While battling an elbow strain and meniscus injury, Macko posted a 3.99 ERA with the AquaSox, striking out 35.9 per cent of the hitters he faced. As he continues to improve on the mound, balancing his work ethic with caring for his body has become one of Macko’s top priorities. "I’ve never been afraid of working hard, but I understand now that I’ve always been overworking myself and never letting [my body] rest," he said. "I always wanted to push myself to get better because there’s always someone else working hard. "I’m starting to understand that recovery is a good thing. I've learned that it's really about the quality of the reps that I'm doing rather than the quantity." Vauxhall’s head coach, Les McTavish, saw that work ethic in Macko from an early age. "He’s obsessed with being great. He would wake up at six in the morning in high school to go to the gym and work on his core and go through his stretching routine," McTavish said in a Zoom interview. "There are very few people that I’ve ever met that are like that." That drive to be great was evident when Macko — in grade 10 at the time — told Vauxhall’s strength coach, Jeff Krushell, that his goal is to make the Hall of Fame. "All of us as a staff remember that because he just had a confidence in him," McTavish said. "That’s the mentality he had as a 15-year-old. He wants to be great at everything he does. He’s extremely driven in the sense that he tries to turn over every rock to figure out how to get better, and he’s been like that from a young age." Now transitioning to a new organization, Macko’s goals aren’t changing — for 2023 or beyond. "This off-season, I’m trying to build up some more strength to throw harder and to protect my elbow, shoulder and whole body to withstand the whole season," he said. "Long term, my ultimate goal is to make the Hall of Fame, but I don’t think it’d be worth being in the hall if I didn’t win a couple of World Series. "I think it’d be awesome to do that with the Blue Jays. To bring a championship back to not only Toronto but to all of Canada would be so special."