Jamie Cameron

This draft cycle, we’re going to try something new. Every few weeks, I’ll be posting an article listing out who the Blue Jays would select based on their position on our consensus draft board. As the consensus board is updated, the players in those spots will be adjusted, and I’ll post another update. This is not a mock draft. Rather, I’m hoping it’ll give readers an idea of the caliber of talent at each of the team’s first couple of picks. Additionally, it should help readers who want to dig into draft coverage a bit more get familiar with the class. Here would be the Blue Jays' first two picks by consensus draft ranking as of 06.26.25. First Round (8th Overall): JoJo Parker, SS, Purvis HS, MS Joseph 'JoJo' Parker is a left-handed hitting prep infielder out of Mississippi who lit up the summer showcase circuit and has steadily moved up boards this spring. It's a big league type frame at 6-foot-2, 200 pounds. Parker starts with a narrow base and has a smooth, quiet load as he strides into his swing. It's a good-looking operation from the left side of the plate, and Parker has shown a refined hit tool to go with some emerging power. While his other tools are mostly average. He'll have a chance to stick at shortstop in the short to medium term, but he might end up moving to another position on the dirt. Even if he moves off shortstop, this is a profile that has rocketed up draft boards due to the level of confidence and polish present in his hit tool. There aren't many strong hit/power prep profiles in this class, at least not with the level of certainty most evaluators seem to assign to Parker. His name has been mentioned as high as the top five as of this report. Joseph's twin brother, Jacob, will also likely be a top-100 profile in this class. Third Round (81st Overall): Cade Obermueller, LHP, Iowa Cade Obermueller was eligible (and drafted) as a sophomore in 2024 (Rangers, 19th round) but elected to return to school after a disappointing 2024 season for Iowa. That looks to have been an excellent decision for his draft prospects. He's an undersized left-handed starter who thrives by throwing from a low slot and creating challenging angles for hitters. The fastball has a wide velo range, sitting 91-94 mph, but he has cranked it all the way up to 98 mph. His slider is a plus pitch, with a ton of horizontal break, and it's death to both lefties and righties. Finally, there's a seldom-used changeup in the mix too. Obermueller has had a much-improved 2025 season. He paired a 3.06 FIP with a 32.5 K% and a manageable 9.4 BB%. This is a unique set of traits for an organization to mold. View full article

In episode 83 of Destination: The Show, Jeremy and Jamie unpack an underwhelming group of college outfielders in the forthcoming draft. They dig into how quickly to pull the trigger on Ike Irish, in addition to the level of concern around Brendan Summerhill’s power production at the college level. The guys disagree on whether Jace LaViolette is a risk worth taking in the late teens, before digging into some additional top 50 profiles. Jeremy and Jamie cover Ethan Conrad, Devin Taylor, Cam Cannarella, Mason Neville, and Charles Davalan before finishing up with some listener questions. 0:00 Intro 8:26 Housekeeping 9:21 Draft Night One Plans 13:21 Ike Irish 21:37 Brendan Summerhill 26:55 Jace LaViolette 37:55 Ethan Conrad 44:35 Devin Taylor 49:02 Cam Cannarella 53:45 Mason Neville 56:45 Charles Davalan 57:45 Max Belyeu and Ethan Petry 1:00:14 Listener Questions You can support the show by downloading it from wherever you get your podcasts, including iTunes and Spotify. If you enjoy the content, consider leaving us a five-star rating and review in addition to sharing or retweeting DTS-related content. You can follow us on Twitter @DTS_POD1, @Jeremynygaard, @J_D_Cameron, and @TheodoreTollef1. We’re now also on Bluesky @destinationtheshow.bsky.social. You can also find full episodes and clips of our shows on our YouTube page: @DestinationTheShow. View full article

This draft cycle, we’re going to try something new. Every few weeks, I’ll be posting an article here listing out who the Jays would select based on their position on the consensus draft board. As the consensus board is updated, the players in those spots will be adjusted, and I’ll post another update. This is not a proper mock draft. Rather, I’m hoping it’ll give readers an idea of the caliber of talent in each of the team’s first few picks. Additionally, it should help readers who want to dig into draft coverage a bit more get familiar with the class. Here would be the Blue Jays' first two picks by consensus draft ranking as of 05.28.25. First Round (8th Overall): Liam Doyle, LHP, Tennessee Liam Doyle is one of the sharpest risers in the 2025 cycle. The Ole' Miss transfer has cemented himself as the Friday night starter for the defending national champions, and it's explosive stuff on the mound. Doyle has an effortful delivery, but it seems to work well for him, and he's been in the zone plenty in 2025. His fastball is a unique, outlier shape, generating 20 inches of ride, and he's been cranking it up to 97 mph throughout SEC play. Doyle also uses a slider, and cutter, both of which are around average, and a changeup he's continuing to develop a feel for. A bugaboo for Doyle has been maintaining his velocity throughout starts. It tends to fall off with all pitches sharply after 45 pitches or so. Doyle has posted consistently throughout a tough SEC slate. Prior to postseason play kicking off, he had managed a 3.04 ERA (2.49 FIP) with a 42.6% K% and 8.1% BB% in 83 innings of work. He’s not at the same level, but that’s Chase Burns/Hagen Smith levels of dominance. There’s some risk to the profile with an arsenal that needs development and an effortful delivery, but it’s top-tier arm talent. Third Round (81st Overall): Nick Dumesnil, OF, Cal Baptist Nick Dumesnil had an explosive 2024 for Cal Baptist, putting up a 1.142 OPS whilst swatting 19 home runs (41 extra base hits), walking 20 times, and striking out 35 times in 61 games. He carried this incandescent season into the Cape, where he put up an .866 OPS in 36 games. Dumesnil is a tremendous athlete. It's serious bat speed from the right side with a simple swing that underpins a propensity to drive the ball to all fields. Dumesnil has quality bat-to-ball skills, posting a contact rate north of 90%. While it's not top-of-the-scale power, his 106-mph EV90 provides plenty of impact. The biggest orange flag with Dumesnil is his swing decisions. His swing rate is north of 50% and his chase rate north of 30%, both astronomically high. He'll need to rein in the aggressive approach some to thrive in pro ball, but the athleticism, bat-to-ball skills, and contact quality are in place. View full article

In episode 77 of Destination: The Show, Jeremy and Jamie start by discussing a slew of injuries to notable Twins prospects, including Luke Keaschall, Walker Jenkins, and Charlee Soto. The guys then give an overview of the bonus pool system in MLB, detailing how the different rounds of the draft work. They go on to dig into the bonus pools of the Brewers, Twins, Red Sox, Cubs, and Padres. Finally, they spend some time reacting to the most recent BA staff draft, digging into whether the picks made might make sense for the Padres, Blue Jays, Cubs, Brewers, and Twins. 0:00 Intro 5:55 Housekeeping 6:37 Twins Prospect Injuries 14:59 Draft Bonus Pools 17:55 Brewers Bonus Pool 20:40 Twins Bonus Pool 23:31 Red Sox Bonus Pool 27:10 Cubs Bonus Pool 30:02 Padres Bonus Pool 35:58 Bouncing around the first round You can support the show by downloading it from wherever you get your podcasts, including iTunes and Spotify. If you enjoy the content, consider leaving us a five-star rating and review in addition to sharing or retweeting DTS-related content. You can follow us on Twitter @DTS_POD1, @Jeremynygaard, @J_D_Cameron, and @TheodoreTollef1. We’re now on Bluesky @destinationtheshow.bsky.social. You can also find full episodes and clips of our shows on our YouTube page @DestinationTheShow. View full article

MLB has released bonus pool allocations and pick values for the 2025 MLB Draft, as well as international signing bonus pools for the 2026 signing period. What does this mean for the Blue Jays? This week, Major League Baseball released bonus pool allocations and pick values for the 2025 MLB Draft. Additionally, MLB released international signing bonus pools for the 2026 signing period. The Blue Jays finished the 2024 season with the seventh-worst record in MLB. They were victims of some poor draft lottery luck, falling to the eighth spot in the first round. This might not seem impactful, but that’s a loss of around $336,300. That matters when you have limited financial and pick flexibility. The Jays will have the 20th-largest bonus pool overall, at $10,314,600. The Blue Jays' top 100 picks and slot values are as follows: Slot value for pick 8: $6,813,600 Slot value for pick 81: $993,900 The Blue Jays forfeited their second-round pick for signing Anthony Santander, who received a qualifying offer from the Orioles. Their financial and pick inflexibility puts the Jays in a challenging position ahead of a draft class shaping up to be uncertain in terms of top-tier talent, but with plenty of depth through around 75 picks, with prep bats a demographic of strength. Reminders on Draft Financials Organizations are allowed to spend up to 5% more than their total pool without incurring a penalty, a choice many teams take advantage of. The Twins and the Rockies are the only MLB teams that have never spent any overage on their bonus pool. Any amount up to 5% over the pool is met with a 75% tax on the overage. If a team spends between 5-10% more than their pool, the penalty is 75% tax on the overage and loss of a future first-rounder. Any team that exceeds their bonus pool by more than 10% and up to 15% pays 100% tax on the overage and will lose a first and second-round future pick. Any team that exceeds their bonus pool by more than 15% loses two future first-round picks in addition to paying 100% tax on the overage. Rounds 11-20 work differently from the first half of the draft. Picks in these rounds do not come with an assigned slot value. Teams can spend up to $150,000 per pick without that spending coming out of their bonus pool. If they spend over that amount, any overage will be deducted from their bonus pool. For example, an 11th-round pick signing for $250,000 will result in $100,000 being subtracted from that team’s bonus pool. MLB Announces 2026 International Bonus Pools MLB also announced bonus pools for the 2026 international signing period today. The 2026 signing window opens on January 15th, 2026 and runs through December 15th, 2026. The Blue Jays are in a group of three teams (which also includes the Red Sox) that have the joint second smallest bonus pools. The Blue Jays can spend $5,940,000 in the 2026 international signing window. View full article

Draft tandem Jeremy Nygaard and JD Cameron team up for a podcast to discuss prospects on their way to the big leagues and the MLB draft, produced by Theo Tollefson. In episode 67 of Destination: The Show, Jeremy and Jamie work through a busy week of news and notes from the offseason. They start with the Jays signing Max Scherzer, who will provide a boost to the back end of their rotation. How will he perform? Will he end the season in Toronto, or elsewhere? The guys then turn their attention to the Twins who made multiple moves this week after being frozen in carbonite for most of the offseason. Hear their thoughts on the Twins adding Danny Coulombe and Harrison Bader and asking what are the implications for other players on the fringes of the roster. The guys then jump into a round of FrankenProspect. The concept is simple; using the Brewers, Cubs, and Twins farm systems, draft tools to build the best hitter and pitcher possible. They take turns drafting hit, power, defense, arm, and run tools for hitters and fastball, changeup, slider, curveball and control tools for pitchers. Who came out on top? 0:00 Intro 4:00 Housekeeping 5:20 Moves in the MLB 11:00 Twins Sign Coloumbe 16:40 Twins Sign Bader 26:20 Build a Franken-Prospect You can support the show by downloading it from wherever you get your podcasts, including iTunes and Spotify. If you enjoy the content, consider leaving us a five-star rating and review in addition to sharing or retweeting DTS-related content. You can follow us on Twitter @DTS_POD1, @Jeremynygaard, @J_D_Cameron, and @TheodoreTollef1. We’re now on Bluesky @destinationtheshow.bsky.social. You can also find full episodes and clips of our shows on our YouTube page @DestinationTheShow. View full article

Draft tandem Jeremy Nygaard and JD Cameron team up for a podcast to discuss prospects on their way to the big leagues and the MLB draft, produced by Theo Tollefson. In episode 65 of Destination: The Show, Jeremy and Jamie work through news and notes from the offseason. They start by digging into the Jays signing Anthony Santander, asking if that is enough, or if more moves are on the way for Toronto. The guys dig into the Cubs missing out on Tanner Scott and whether that might be a blessing in disguise given the terms of his contract with the Dodgers. They provide updates on the Twins ownership situation with Justin Ishbia said to be a ‘very, very serious’ potential option. The guys then dig into dueling top ten Brewers prospect lists. Who do they have as number one on their list? Who rounds out the top ten after the four clear cut top prospects are ranked? Finally, they end with a mailbag question on Twins left-handed pitching prospect Michael Carpenter. 0:00 Intro 2:00 Baseball! 2:25 Roki Sasaki 5:25 Sasaki Fallout 8:04 Tanner Scott to the Dodgers 13:18 Twins Ownership Updates 16:15 Brewers Top 10 Prospects 1:03:15 Listener Question 1:07:30 Housekeeping You can support the show by downloading it from wherever you get your podcasts, including iTunes and Spotify. If you enjoy the content, consider leaving us a five-star rating and review in addition to sharing or retweeting DTS-related content. You can follow us on Twitter @DTS_POD1, @Jeremynygaard, @J_D_Cameron, and @TheodoreTollef1. We’re now on Bluesky @destinationtheshow.bsky.social. You can also find full episodes and clips of our shows on our YouTube page @DestinationTheShow. View full article

JD Cameron gives a breakdown of Juan Sanchez, one of the headliners of the Blue Jays' forthcoming international prospect class. View full video

JD Cameron gives a breakdown of Cristopher Polanco, one of the headliners of the Blue Jays' forthcoming international prospect class. View full video