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19. Toronto Blue Jays PREVIOUS 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 RANKINGS 25 26 25 15 8 State of the System: The Blue Jays have built an improved system, with better talent at the upper levels such as Travis Snider, J.P. Arencibia and Brett Cecil. The Jays have produced some solid pitching of late, such as Shaun Marcum, Jesse Litch and David Purcey, and Snider and Arencibia should be able to improve one of the big league team's biggest weaknesses, a lack of home run power. The system is still largely dependent on the development of the large 2007 draft class with infielders Kevin Ahrens, Justin Jackson and John Tolisano. Best-Stocked Position: The Jays have drafted a lot of lefthanders lately, with Cecil—a 2007 supplemental first-rounder—the best of the lot. Ricky Romero has been maligned as the sixth-overall pick in 2005 but the Jays still like his power arm, and Brad Mills and Matt Rzepczynski give the Jays four southpaws among their Top 10 prospects. Prepare For Takeoff: While he's a shorter righthander Alan Farina has power stuff, including the system's best fastball, a 92-95 mph explosive four-seamer. Ankle and elbow injuries have held him back as a pro, but he's got the power equipment to race through the system if he's healthy in 2009. At A Crossroads: The Jays passed on a lot of talent to take Romero sixth overall, and he's still yet to reach the majors. At some point, his three-pitch mix has to produce better results than they have to this point, and with Toronto's big league pitcher injuries (Marcum, Dustin McGowan), now would be a good time.

I distinctly remember driving in my car, circa 2009, listening to Wilner teling me that Brett Cecil was going to be the 1B to Roy Halladays 1A. Cecil was a tremendous prospect in AA, I think we all expected him to be a good starter and from that perspective he was disappointing. If you look at his prospect numbers up until 2008, you would think you are looking at a top 20 prospect in baseball.

As it stands now Reese Mcguire and Danny Jansen are both rookies and will total about 3 wins. You could easily see the two total 4-5 Wins in future seasons. Thats pretty damn good. If you get 5 wins out of your catchers, you can overlook a lot of replacement value in the outfield.

That would be really cool to see

Surprised no pinch hitter for Davis here

Do we have a hitting coach

Lol extremely questionable with runner on third and less than 2 outs

Wtf are you talking about old man he walked 3 and struck out 1 in less than 5 innings also gave up 7 hits ffs Literally had no swings and misses and was lucky they didnt put up a 6 spot Ffs

Ouch Well that was bound to happen there isnt much in his pitches

The only thing Zeuch has going for him is that sinker

McGuire is giving Jansen a run for his money

I'd take him over the likes of Hernandez and the fish At least he makes contacts

Lol Fisher is such a zero

Not a good start so far

I think your overstating a bit some teams yes Al east the Oriorls but that's it Maybe royals tigers in central Mariners But that's it. 4 teams that would trade us rosters I think.

He is striking out 34% of times on the season and has put up a measly 0.5 WAR in 400 plate appearances.

Barker also suggested that he has seen enough of Rowdy. Rowdy cant hit the ball away, Cant hit the ball up. Thinks he would already adjusted if he was capable of it.

"I dont know how you can look like this in 2020. I dont know how you can turn this into a competing team in 2020." "I dont think they can score more runs."

46 Numbers of times Teoscar Hernandez has struck out in his last 95 at bats Barker pulled no punches, Low baseball IQ, makes mistakes, not much of a Centre Fielder, "In my opinion he is not on this team this year, he'd have to hit 40 homeruns a year to be a factor"

They need to juice the ball so that there are 15 to 20 home runs a game. That would be fun

Catches win matches And losers like Goins cause you Titles That's a fact of life. His one job was to make the catch

I'm not the brightest mind, here but man Kay looked good in his first start. Like middle of the rotation starter good. I dont think he will ever be anything more than a no.3 but he definately looked to be better than every other starter we have had this season (save Stroman, and I am not sure if Borucki pitched at all this year)

Its a reflection of how incompetent the general person is. We assume that people are good at their jobs, because there is an aura of the unknown on what that job is. Most of the public is incredibly incompetent, and without a system, they wouldn't be able to do most basic jobs.

Man how were Redsox able to develop the kind of players they do. I look at us, and like its crazy depressing.

They won one though When was the last time we won one.