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17. Cristopher Polanco SS Ht: 5'10" | Wt: 174 | B-T: L-R Age: null BA Grade/Risk: 50/Extreme. Track Record: The Blue Jays international signing class was delayed a few days after the opening of the International signing window due to the team’s pursuit of eventual Dodgers signee Roki Sasaki. The top prospect in the class that eventually signed a few days later was Cristopher Polanco. The Blue Jays signed the Dominican shortstop for $2,300,000 and he was rated as one of the top prospects available out of the Dominican Republic. Scouting Report: Polanco has a hitterish look from the left side of the plate. He’s a mature, polished hitter, using a clean, compact swing to square up pitches throughout the strike zone and the quickness to catch up to good velocity. He’s 5-foot-11, 180 pounds with more hitting ability than raw power right now, with scouts split on whether it will stay that way or if he could end up developing power later in his career. His offensive game is his selling point. He has a chance to stick at shortstop, though many scouts think he would fit best at second base at higher levels. The Future: Polanco is one of the Blue Jays’ biggest bonus signing for the last few years and carries with him above-average offensive upside. He will debut in the 2025 Dominican Summer League. Scouting Grades: Hit: 55 | Power: 45 | Run: 50 | Field: 50 | Arm: 50.

18. Johnny King LHP Ht: 6'4" | Wt: 185 | B-T: L-L Age: null BA Grade/Risk: 50/Extreme. Track Record: A highly touted recruit out of Naples, Fla., King was one of the youngest high school players eligible for the 2024 draft at 17 years old on draft day. King was viewed as a projection pick and likely a difficult sign away from a Miami commitment. The Blue Jays selected King in the third round with the 95th overall pick and signed him for a bonus just under $1.25 million. King did not debut after the draft and is likely to make his debut in the Florida Complex League in 2025. Scouting Report: King is a tall lefthander with remaining projection. He began to fill in his larger frame during the spring and looked more filled out pre-draft. He throws from a slingy low three-quarters arm slot that gives his pitches, particularly his fastball, a difficult angle. King’s pitch mix consists of a four-seam fastball, curveball, slider and a changeup. King’s fastball sits in the low 90s with some ride and late run, and is a projectable pitch that should add a few ticks in the coming years. His curveball was his primary breaking ball in high school, sitting 76-78 mph with two-plane break. King has also shown a low-80s slider with sweep that has spin rates in the 2,500-2,600 rpm range. King has a changeup but it’s a very raw pitch that the team could rework into more of a splitter. King shows fringe-average command of his pitch mix, which will need to improve if he’s going to project as a starter. The Future: King is a projectable lefthander who could blossom into a back-of-the-rotation starter. Scouting Grades: Fastball: 55 | Curveball: 55 | Slider: 50 | Changeup: 30 | Control: 45.

19. Jace Bohrofen OF Ht: 6'2" | Wt: 205 | B-T: L-R Age: null BA Grade/Risk: 45/High. Track Record: A highly touted prep player out of the state of Oklahoma, Bohrofen ranked 141st in the 2020 class. He honored his commitment to his home-state school of Oklahoma, but lasted one season with the Sooners before transferring to Arkansas. Bohrofen broke out at the plate as a junior and the Blue Jays selected him in the sixth round. Bohrofen spent all of 2024 with High-A Vancouver, hitting .254/.364/.433 with 27 doubles, 14 home runs and 10 stolen bases. Scouting Report: While Bohrofen’s stats don’t jump off the page he’s a well-rounded player on both sides of the ball and held in high esteem within the organization. His sweet lefty swing produces lots of bat speed and impact at the point of contact but his bat-to-ball skills are below-average. He makes up for poor contact skills with plus swing decisions that grade out well on teams’ analytical models. Bohrofen’s quality of contact is excellent, and his ability to hit the ball in the air at a high rate and do damage makes him a dangerous power threat. Bohrofen’s exit velocity data is above-average with a 104.3 mph 90th percentile EV and a 110.7 mph max EV. Bohrofen is an excellent fastball hitter who struggles against spin and offspeed. He’s an above-average runner and it translates to above-average defense in the outfield. He’s average in center field but above-average in the outfield corners. The Future: Bohrofen’s ceiling is as a second-division regular corner outfielder with 20-plus home run power at peak and high on-base percentages. Scouting Grades: Hit: 40 | Power: 55 | Run: 55 | Field: 50 | Arm: 50.

That would be a lot, not sure if Toronto can pull that off.

20. Adam Macko LHP Ht: 6'0" | Wt: 170 | B-T: L-L Age: null BA Grade/Risk: 45/High. Track Record: A native of Slovakia, Macko was introduced to baseball in grade school and learned to pitch by watching YouTube videos of MLB pitchers. His family moved to Ireland and then Canada, where Macko entered more formal baseball training and blossomed. Drafted in the seventh round by the Mariners in 2019, Macko was traded to the Blue Jays in the Teoscar Hernandez deal in November of 2022. Macko spent the majority of the 2024 season with Double-A New Hampshire and reached Triple-A in September. Scouting Report: Macko’s deceptive three-quarters arm slot with a crossfire finish is particularly difficult on righthanded hitters, whom he held to an OPS of just .647 in 2024. Macko’s fastball sits 91-93 mph with average ride and above-average armside run. His primary secondary is a cut-slider at 82-83 mph against which hitters produced an .858 OPS. His curveball is his best secondary pitch but trails the slider in usage; it sits in the mid 70s with a wicked two-plane break. In 2024 batters hit just .102 with a 36.2% whiff rate against the curveball. The pitch is fairly easy to identify out of the hand, however, and was swung at infrequently. His changeup is a low-80s pitch with heavy tumble and late fade. The pitch shows promise but his feel for it comes and goes. Macko is an average strike-thrower with particularly good command of his fastball and curveball. The Future: Macko has unexceptional stuff and average command of his four-pitch mix. He’s had some durability issues but looks like a depth starter. Scouting Grades: Fastball: 45 | Curveball: 55 | Slider: 45 | Changeup: 45 | Control: 50.

21. Carson Messina RHP Ht: 6'1" | Wt: 200 | B-T: R-R Age: null BA Grade/Risk: 50/Extreme. Track Record: The younger brother of Rockies 2024 third-round pick catcher Cole Messina, Carson is the pitcher of the family battery. Messina was committed to South Carolina and played on the same high school team as Marlins first-round pick PJ Morlando. The Blue Jays drafted Messina in the 12th round and signed him for $550,000. Messina is likely to debut in the Florida Complex League in 2025. Scouting Report: Messina is a stocky righthander with present physical strength and average athleticism. He works from a modified stretch, slinging the ball from a three-quarters arm slot with a drop-and-drive delivery that lowers his release of the ball. He mixes a fastball with heavy armside run at 93-94 mph, with a mid-80s slider with sweep and late bite. His slider earned double-plus grades as an amateur and looks to be his best pitch entering pro ball thanks to the ugly swings it elicits. Messina’s low-80s changeup is a below-average pitch that he shows in flashes. His ability to miss bats with his fastball-slider combination gives Messina a foundation on which to build. His command is fringy at present, with out of sync mechanics that can often spin Messina off his landing spot. He’ll need to improve his strike-throwing and feel for his changeup if he’s going to develop into a back-of-the-rotation starter. The Future: As an interesting righthander with excellent feel for spin and some power behind his pitches, Messina has a wide range of outcomes. The Blue Jays will develop him as a starter. Scouting Grades: Fastball: 55 | Slider: 70 | Changeup: 45 | Control: .

22. Angel Bastardo RHP Ht: 6'1" | Wt: 175 | B-T: R-R Age: null BA Grade/Risk: 45/High. Track Record: Bastardo signed for $35,000 in 2018 as a raw pitcher who had promising shapes to his fastball and changeup. Though his surface numbers have never been impressive, he’s made major increases in his ability to get swings and misses based on improvements of his stuff and usage. He punched out 29% of hitters in High-A and Double-A in 2023, and was nearing a promotion while striking out 26% of hitters in Portland in 2024 when he blew out, requiring season-ending Tommy John surgery that will sideline him for most or all of 2025. The Red Sox left Bastardo unprotected for the Rule 5 draft and he was selected by the Blue Jays with the sixth overall pick. Scouting Report: Bastardo’s 95-98 mph four-seamer doesn’t generate as many whiffs as the velocity might suggest. Mindful thereof, the Red Sox had him tweak his usage in 2024 to further emphasize his changeup, slider and curveball. All three of those offerings sat in the low-to-mid 80s last year. Boston wanted him to boost his gyro slider to roughly 85-88 mph to gain separation from the rest of his repertoire. His 11% walk rate will need to come down to remain on a starting track. The Future: If he can throw more strikes, Bastardo has the ceiling of a No. 5 starter. Otherwise, he’s a power bullpen arm. Scouting Grades: Fastball: 50 | Curveball: 40 | Slider: 50 | Changeup: 50 | Control: 40.

23. Juaron Watts-Brown RHP Ht: 6'3" | Wt: 190 | B-T: R-R Age: null BA Grade/Risk: 45/High. Track Record: A shoulder injury while playing high school football forced Watts-Brown to redshirt his freshman season at Long Beach in 2021. He broke out in 2022, earning second-team Freshman All-American honors. After a strong performance on the Cape, he entered the transfer portal and committed to Oklahoma State. Watts-Brown struggled but the Blue Jays liked his projectable frame and stuff and selected him in the third round of the 2023 draft. He signed for $1 million and debuted in 2024 at Low-A and split his season across both Class A levels. Scouting Report: A tall, thin righthander with an uptempo delivery and an over-the-top arm slot. Watts-Brown mixes four pitches in a four-seam fastball, slider, curveball and changeup. His four-seam fastball sits 92-94 mph touching 96 mph at peak with above-average ride and run from a six-foot release. Watts-Brown doesn’t generate much swing and miss with his fastball but he does use it effectively enough to set up his trio of secondaries. Watts-Brown’s mid-80s gyro slider with average spin rates in the 2,400-2,500 rpm range generates whiffs at an elite rate while tunneling off of his fastball. Both his high-70s curveball and low-80s changeup miss an above-average amount of bats with average command. The Future: Watts-Brown shows projectable starters traits with command of a four-pitch mix and a swing-and-miss weapon in his slider. Scouting Grades: Fastball: 50 | Curveball: 50 | Slider: 55 | Changeup: 50 | Control: 50.

24. Sean Keys 3B Ht: 6'2" | Wt: 225 | B-T: L-R Age: null BA Grade/Risk: 45/High. Track Record: Keys popped in his sophomore season at Bucknell and then upped the ante in his junior season by hitting .405/.535/.798 with 13 home runs. He was named Patriot League player of the year and the Blue Jays selected Keys in the fourth round of the 2024 draft. He signed for a bonus of $569,700 and debuted following the draft with Low-A Dunedin. Over 22 games with Dunedin, Keys hit .293/.378/.451 with eight extra-base hits. Scouting Report: Keys is a physical lefthanded hitter with average present power, above-average plate skills and the ability to backspin the ball to all parts of the ballpark. Keys shows above-average bat-to-ball skills with good swing decisions. He wasn’t beaten very often in the zone and avoided passivity in his approach. His power ticked down from his college data based on exit velocities, and his max EV was 108.3 mph in his pro debut. Keys’ ability to hit the ball hard in the air gives him above-average power projection. He is a below-average runner and fringe-average defender at third base. He has a chance to stick at the hot corner due to his above-average arm. The Future: Keys has a chance to break out in 2025 due to his combination of feel to hit, approach and developing power. Scouting Grades: Hit: 50 | Power: 50 | Run: 40 | Field: 45 | Arm: 55.

25. Peyton Williams 1B Ht: 6'5" | Wt: 255 | B-T: L-L Age: null BA Grade/Risk: 45/High. Track Record: A three-year starter at Iowa, the Blue Jays selected Williams in the seventh round of the 2022 draft. He signed for $197,500 and debuted in Low-A. He spent a majority of the 2024 season with High-A Vancouver, playing in 77 games and hitting .289/.362/.476 with 11 home runs. After the season Williams played in the Arizona Fall League with Scottsdale. Scouting Report: Williams is a large-bodied slugger with the build of an offensive lineman. He uses his strength to club long, loud drives all over the ballpark and does so without selling out for power or pullside juice. Williams has average bat-to-ball skills with excellent swing decisions. He has double-plus raw power but plus game power he gets to with ease. Williams’ exit velocity data is outstanding, with a 113.6 mph max EV during the 2024 season and a 46% hard-hit rate. Williams’ game is rooted in his ability to get to his power while limiting his swings and misses. He’s a bottom of the scale runner and is limited to first base defensively. There’s heavy pressure on Williams to hit. The Future: Williams is lefthanded-hitting first base prospect with a solid balance of skills but limited fallback options if he doesn’t hit. Scouting Grades: Hit: 50 | Power: 60 | Run: 20 | Field: 40 | Arm: 45.

26. Brandon Barriera LHP Ht: 6'2" | Wt: 180 | B-T: L-L Age: null BA Grade/Risk: 50/Extreme. Track Record: The Blue Jays selected Barriera with the 23rd overall pick and signed him for $3.6 million. He made his pro debut in May of 2023 after dealing with a shoulder injury in spring training. He made four starts before hitting the injured list with an elbow sprain. Barriera returned in July but after three starts went down with biceps soreness. The previous season’s injuries were a foreshadowing of what was to come as Barriera tore his UCL in his first start of 2024 and had hybrid Tommy John Surgery. Scouting Report: A highly touted prep player, Barriera has struggled with health and conditioning as a professional. He started his pro career significantly overweight, and dealt with subsequent injuries. He slimmed down entering 2024 but it was too little too late as the wear and tear of the previous two years saw him break down. Barriera has shown glimpses of a plus slider that dominated amateur competition by sitting 82-84 mph with heavy sweep and feel to manipulate its shape. His fastball is a low-to-mid-90s cut four-seamer which, depending on the day, can sit 92-94 mph or 93-96 mph. He’ll show a curveball in the high-70s with two-plane break and a mid-to-high-80s changeup with parachuting drop. The Future: Barriera will likely miss most, if not all, of 2025 and it’s uncertain what he will look like upon returning. Scouting Grades: Fastball: 50 | Curveball: 40 | Slider: 60 | Changeup: 40 | Control: 45.

27. Juan Sanchez SS Ht: 5'9" | Wt: 165 | B-T: L-L Age: null BA Grade/Risk: 50/Extreme. Track Record: The Blue Jays signed the Dominican shortstop for $997,500 in January 2025. It was the second highest bonus of the team’s international class. Scouting Report: Sanchez is 6-foot-3, 200 pounds, a body type that would typically point toward a move off of shortstop, but Sanchez is surprisingly light on his feet for his size. He’s an above-average runner with quick actions and an above-average arm that fits at either spot of the left side of the infield. Sanchez has the physicality and strength potential to develop above-average power and already drives the ball well now from the right side of the plate in a power-over-hit approach. The Future: Sanchez should debut in the Dominican Summer league in 2025 alongside fellow IFA signee Cristopher Polanco giving the Blue Jays a pair of higher upside prospects to watch. Scouting Grades: Hit: 45 | Power: 55 | Run: 55 | Field: 55 | Arm: 55.

28. T.J. Brock RHP Ht: 6'1" | Wt: 200 | B-T: R-R Age: null BA Grade/Risk: 40/High. Track Record: Brock spent four years at Ohio State and did two tours of duty in the Cape Cod League. He received some scouting buzz for his high-octane stuff and ability to touch triple-digits with his fastball. Brock was taken by the Blue Jays in the sixth round of the 2022 draft and signed for a bonus of $72,500. After being limited to just 11 appearances in 2024 due to an elbow injury, Brock made up time after the season in the Arizona Fall League. Scouting Report: Brock is a pure relief prospect with a high-powered two-pitch mix that’s designed to blow away opposing batters. Brock sits 95-97 mph on his four-seam fastball with plus ride and heavy cut. While Brock’s fastball lights up the radar gun, his upper-80s cut-slider does all the heavy lifting. It’s Brock’s most frequently thrown pitch and it generates swings and misses in bunches. In 2024, Brock’s slider had a 28% swinging strike rate against all competition. Brock fits the mold of a late-inning fire-breathing dragon with plus velocity and a swing and miss secondary. The Future: If Brock can stay healthy and master Triple-A, he has a chance to help the Blue Jays bullpen in the coming years. Scouting Grades: Fastball: 60 | Slider: 60 | Control: 45.

29. Dahian Santos RHP Ht: 5'11" | Wt: 160 | B-T: R-R Age: null BA Grade/Risk: 40/High. Track Record: Santos signed for $150,000 in 2019 out of Venezuela and made his professional debut two years later in 2021. Santos impressed in 2022 and in the first half of 2023 but an elbow strain kept him off the mound for 11 months. He returned in mid June of 2024 and after a three-week rehab joined Double-A New Hampshire. Scouting Report: Santos is an undersized righthander with a low three-quarters arm slot and inverted-W style mechanics. Santos slings the ball in a near sidearm fashion with a way of wrapping rotationally around his pitches for a true crossfire finish. This enhances his pitches, which are a four-seam fastball, slider and changeup. Santos’ four-seamer fastball sits 92-93 mph with below-average ride and heavy armside run. The pitch generates whiffs above its velocity due to his tricky angle. His low-80s sweeper slider averaged around 11-13 inches of horizontal break with a unique approach angle. Santos misses lots of bats with his low-80s changeup when he lands it, but command of the pitch is spotty. Santos has below-average command in large part due to the amount of break on his pitches The Future: Santos has endured durability issues but has the unique angle on his pitches to be a deceptive reliever who dominates righthanded hitters. Scouting Grades: Fastball: 50 | Slider: 60 | Changeup: 50 | Control: 40.

30. Eddinson Paulino 2B / 3B Ht: 5'10" | Wt: 155 | B-T: L-R Age: null BA Grade/Risk: 40/High. Track Record: Signed by the Red Sox out of the Dominican Republic in 2018, Paulino moved steadily throughout the minors over his first six seasons. He began his season with the Red Sox Double-A affiliate in Portland by hitting .263/.349/.391 over 69 games. He was traded to the Blue Jays for Danny Jansen on July 27. Paulino missed time due to injury but returned to action with Double-A New Hampshire at the end of the season. Paulino participated in the Arizona Fall League following the regular year. Scouting Report: A well-rounded player with quick hands and the ability to adjust to spin, Paulino’ has a simple lefthanded swing with few moving parts which allows him to make consistent contact. Some of his bat-to-ball skills dissipated in 2024 as he chased improved bat speed. Paulino maintained strong swing decisions and showed the ability to put the ball in the air at a higher rate than at any point in his career. Still, Paulino lacks physicality and has below-average game power. He’s a fringe-average runner who lacks range in the field but has good actions at second and third base. The Future: Paulino fits as a multi-positional infield utility player who doesn’t give away at-bats and can fill in at second base, third base, shortstop and the outfield. Scouting Grades: Hit: 50 | Power: 40 | Run: 45 | Field: 50 | Arm: 50.

No Chat, they did the Deep Dive video glory posted above, far better than the top 10 chat. Shortly. Dude's a linebacker playing baseball, lol.

10 days till Catchers and Pitchers report. 😎

dEaNmIkEiSpIsT 😅🤡

It's a damn shame Martin didn't even get the 5% vote to keep him on the ballot.

TIL BRef has projections?! Can someone post a link to this, as working through BR is a headache... or Mike? Good read, the difference in the number of IP is interesting.

It's a lot closer than you think. Negative WAR, lol.

Of course. That'd put them right at a projected 90 win team. Whereis Minny's at 90, KC's at 85, Cleveland's at 84, Chicago's at 69, lol. So Tigers are an 85.5 win team so the addition would put them right there with Minny. Twinkies have the best pitching and the Tigers with the best bats, adding Bregman certainly makes them a contender for the Central. Jays at 90.1... so if they acquired Bregman, we'd basically be a projected 95 win team. Git R Done! 🤪

I'm surprised he had to take another show me deal, but I guess the health questions early in his career and the length of a larger term still has teams nervous, if he pitches like last season with a few more starts, as he's been relatively healthy. A 4 win season isn't out of the question and at 25M that's a helluva bargain if he pulls it off. Not sure how you'd rather Max over Flaherty, is it the guaranteed 35?

Yeah 8-31 was a massive hole, and I knew of all the injuries, Quickley just got back and is on limited minutes, I think this is the first time the last 2 games with their full rotation, all of a sudden they're 16-33, lol. It's pretty wild is my point, nice young team to look forward to. When's the trade deadline, will Poetl be moved?

Are you laughing at the joke or do you disagree, Silvio?