Fortnight on the Farm, Vol. 2
With just 25-30 games (depending mostly on rain) played in the 2022 minor-league season, it’s obviously still early to make more than the most tentative assumptions about any given player.
Fortnight on the Farm: Vol. 1
Let’s be honest, at this point in the season, a little more than two weeks on, we barely have a hint of anything and thus such a recap will necessarily be shallow. So the format this time will be basically to note what the well-known top prospects are doing and then give you a little…
Farm Notes as the Blue Jays Minor League Season gets started
Just a quick rundown here of some notes and observations about the farm system teams’ opening weekend rosters and maneuvers. Very little of this will be about actual on-field results, for that I recommend the notebook published at Future Blue Jays, featuring much more insightful observations than I’d come up with. But given my series…
Evaluator Consensus: Blue Jays Top Prospects
Every year, once the highest-profile professional prospect sources drop their lists, I use a points system to arrive at a rough consensus by aggregating their rankings. This is always a rough process because list length varies by source. This year slightly more so due to a small inconsistency in method and the Chapman trade having…
First Look at Potential Blue Jays Farm Rosters: Low-A Dunedin Blue Jays
Have I mentioned anything before about crowded rosters? Because my dude, this one is packed.
First Look at Potential Blue Jays Farm Rosters: High-A Vancouver Canadians
Minor League full-season teams have roster limits, as you might expect.
First Look at Potential Blue Jays Farm Rosters: Double-A New Hampshire Fisher Cats
Following up on last week’s look at the potential Buffalo roster, it goes without saying that the nature of such things is that there are fuzzy lines between the rosters, and assumptions about one naturally affects those made about another, but I’m saying it anyway. EDIT: Earlier today I added a section to the end…
First Look at Potential Blue Jays Farm Rosters: Triple-A Buffalo Bisons
We all know that due to the MLB Lockout, players on the 40 man roster are barred from team facilities or team-organized workouts and development. But I had thought that things would be even more limited than that. EDIT: Scratch that! Things have changed! I won’t mangle what I wrote two weeks ago, but skip…
Looking at the MLBPA’s proposal for service time and what it would mean for the Blue Jays
To borrow (and mangle) a concept from my Beloved Legion of Superheroes comics, The Great Darkness is upon us.
A Modest Proposal: Fixing Service Time Manipulation in the new CBA
Three years ago, as Jays fandom was clamoring for the promotion of phenom prospect Vlad Guerrero Jr. in the waning days of the 2018 season, the subtext of that conversation was the assumption that not only would the Blue Jays not start his service time clock with a late-season promotion but they might well delay…
Offseason Minor League Roster Shuffle and The Rule 5 Draft
While the focus, rightly, is on the major league roster and future maneuvering to improve it (about which I have many thoughts, as do you, but that’s just one girl’s opinion) it’s also the time of year when housekeeping goes on throughout the farm system. There are several different layers of actions going on which…
A Fortnight on the Farm: Tenth (and final) Edition
That’s another MiLB season in the books, apart from the 10 game “post-season-season” that the AAA level is about to commence.