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6. Kendry Rojas | LHP Kendry Rojas Born: Nov 26, 2002 Bats: L Throws: L Ht.: 6'2" Wt.: 190 Signed By: Erick Ramirez/Luis Natera Minors: 2-1 | 2.29 ERA | 39 SO | 10 BB | 36 IP VIEW PLAYER CARD BA Grade/Risk: 55/Extreme June Update: The 20-year-old lefthander has been the breakout player of the Blue Jays system over the first few months of the season. Rojas has been Low-A Dunedin's best pitcher over his eight appearances, striking out 27.5% of the batters he's faced while walking just 7%. Rojas has added 3 mph of velocity onto his four-seam fastball and slider, his two primary offerings. The four-seamer has shown marked improvement as he's added velocity while maintaining his above-average ride on the pitch. Track Record: After signing out of Cuba for $215,000 during the 2020 international signing period, Rojas debuted in the Florida Complex League in 2021 and made eight appearances, with 39 strikeouts over 23.2 innings. He was assigned to Low-A Dunedin to begin his season and made eight appearances before going down with a lat injury that put him on the shelf for all of June and July. He returned in Mid-August and made four starts, throwing 11.2 innings, and allowed three earned runs. With 12 strikeouts and just two walks. Scouting Report: Rojas is a low-slot lefthander with an athletic, repeatable operation and projectable ceiling in both his frame and pitch mix. He sits low-90s on a four-seam fastball with average ride that plays up out of his low slot. He pairs his fastball with a low-80s slider and a mid-80s changeup, both of which he sells with arm speed and his deceptive arm slot. He shows the ability to command his secondaries as both his slider and changeup had above-average strike rates this season. He is still learning to command his fastball and is prone to missing arm side. The Future: With added power to his pitch mix and improved fastball command, Rojas could take a step forward into legitimate starting pitching prospect territory in 2023. Scouting Grades: Fastball: 45. Slider: 55. Changeup: 50. Control: 50.

If you want a breakout prospect to get excited about, in terms of being the type who may start to see top prospect buzz - Kendry Rojas. He's joined Tiedemann and Barriera to form a three headed monster of young LH starter prospects.

He's versatile enough to be a utility type (plays 2B/3B/corner OF), could give him a shot the next time they need to call up a bench bat.

Pretty lengthy farm report following the article on Cheese.

I wonder what specific changes he made to his swing, dude is absolutely driving the ball now. Have noticed that a lot of these bombs are to opposite field.

Too soon

Harrison was the one I posted about awhile back, had been stretched out to start for the first time after working as an RP all through college and the pros until recently. Now up to 20 innings across four starts, allowing just three runs on 9 hits, with 18 Ks and 7BB. Has almost immediately turned himself into a SP prospect worth keeping an eye on.

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Thanks for sharing Spankster, that's a big but not unexpected jump for Rojas, definitely an intriguing arm. Rough outing for him last night though, piggybacking after Van Eyk pitched the first three innings for Dunedin.

Positive outing last night for CJ Van Eyk, who is on a rehab assignment down in Dunedin. Three spotless innings with three Ks.

Perhaps he'll always be a streaky type who will swing and miss a lot when he's cold, but also get on heaters where he makes a ton of loud contact.

The breaking ball does look pretty legit. Can see why he'd be a bit overlooked being 25 at AA but seems like he's pitched his way into relevancy. So we have Francis called up to the bigs, Schultz to AAA and Trenton Wallace has been promoted to AA.

https://www.milb.com/new-hampshire/news/paxton-schultz-promoted-to-triple-a-buffalo The Toronto Blue Jays announced Tuesday that right-handed pitcher Paxton Schultz has been promoted from the New Hampshire Fisher Cats to the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons. In 10 starts with the Fisher Cats this year, Schultz went 3-3 with a 3.30 ERA. He struck out 54 batters in 46.1 innings while issuing just 19 walks. In his final two starts, Schultz allowed one run in 10 innings with one walk and 13 strikeouts. Schultz spent the entire 2022 season with New Hampshire, going 7-6 with a 4.04 ERA in 25 appearances. He made a team-high 20 starts, led the Fisher Cats logging 104.2 innings, and his seven wins were the second-most on the team. The 25-year-old Utah native was originally selected by the Milwaukee Brewers in the 14th round of the 2019 MLB Draft out of Utah Valley University. Schultz was the player to be named later in a 2021 trade for outfielder Derek Fisher.

There were reports yesterday suggesting Bartolo Colon was officially retiring but his agency squashed the rumor this afternoon https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2023/06/bartolo-colon-to-officially-retire.html

f*** yeah

Moniak has a 1.036 OPS in the majors, he wants out of your example