“The dollar amounts for each farm system come from projecting what each is expected to do, using historical examples. With that, it’s pretty easy to project how much they’ll be paid in their six-plus cost-controlled years for that projected performance, adjust for time value of money/performance, apply the price teams pay per win on the free agent market for how much that performance is worth and poof: each player has a dollar value. Then, you simply add up the values for each prospect and have the surplus value of the whole farm system.”

“It has not been a good season for the Blue Jays. Former top prospect Ricky Tiedemann was not having a good season and then went down with elbow surgery. New top prospect Orelvis Martinez is now serving an 80-game PED suspension. Top 2022 draft pick Brandon Barriera also underwent elbow surgery. There hasn’t really been a big breakthrough performance in the system deserving of Top 100 attention.

All that said, though, the Blue Jays handled the draft and trade deadline pretty well. The return for Yusei Kikuchi was excellent — Jake Bloss and Joey Loperfido were among the top seven prospects traded at the deadline while Charles McAdoo is intriguing — and the headliners of the draft crop (Trey Yesavage, Johnny King, Sean Keys, Khal Stephen) were solid values.”