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Blue Jays: Trey Yesavage struggles with command in his first start with Bisons
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Ryley Delaney
Aug 14, 2025, 19:15 EDTUpdated: Aug 14, 2025, 19:44 EDT
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Trey Yesavage didn’t have a great first start in Triple-A.
On Thursday evening, the Toronto Blue Jays’ top prospect made his first Triple-A start of his career, going just an inning and two-thirds with three strikeouts and four walks. Let’s take a look at his performance.
The first batter he faced was Justin Crawford. After falling down 3-1 in the count, Yesavage got his first career whiff with a 93.4 mph fastball above the zone. Yesavage tried the same location on the next pitch, but Campbell laid off and drew a walk. He got another whiff on the first pitch to the next batter, but Alec Bohm eventually hit a single to put runners on first and third.
After a seven-pitch battle with Donovan Walton, Yesavage threw a fastball outside the zone to load the bases with no outs. It looked as if he was going to earn his first strikeout in Triple-A as a 95 mph fastball was called a strike, but the call was overturned to drive in a run.
The next batter up, Garrett Stubbs, hit a sacrifice fly to drive in the Lehigh Valley IronPigs’ second run of the game. Yesavage finally earned that first strikeout, getting Brewer Hicklen to watch an 87 mph cutter to the outside of the plate. To end the inning, Yesavage got former Blue Jays’ farmhand Rafael Lantigua to swing at an 88 mph cutter in the dirt.
Yesavage’s second inning was better. Robert Moore led off the inning with a walk after seven pitches, but Yesavage got the next out thanks to a forceout. Facing his final batter, Yesavage earned two whiffs, with the putaway pitch being an 87.4 mph cutter in the dirt to retire Crawford.
Diving deeper into his stats, Yesavage threw 57 pitches, 32 of which were for strikes. He threw three different pitches: a four-seam fastball, a cutter, and a splitter. The fastball averaged 93.6 mph and touched 94.9 mph. It generated two whiffs on 12 total swings, and Yesavage threw it 30 times.
His best pitch by far was his cutter, as he generated whiffs on 12 total swings. The splitter, which he threw nine times, only generated one swing, not a whiff. As a whole, Yesavage induced eight swings and misses on 25 total swings for a 32 whiff%, not bad.
Coming into this game, Yesavage hadn’t allowed a walk in over a month, dating back to July 6. Of course, he had only made three starts in that span, where he struck out 23 and gave up three earned runs in 13 innings of work.
Hopefully, Yesavage’s next start goes better, as he could factor into the Blue Jays’ plans later this season.
Ryley Delaney is a Nation Network writer for Blue Jays Nation, Oilersnation, and FlamesNation. She can be followed on Twitter @Ryley__Delaney.

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