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Peyton Williams is one of five Blue Jays prospects who could breakout in 2025
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Ryley Delaney
Dec 31, 2024, 15:00 ESTUpdated: Dec 31, 2024, 14:55 EST
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The Toronto Blue Jays farm system needs a breakout player.
There are quite a few interesting prospects that don’t quite rank in the team’s top 30 prospects according to MLB Pipeline that could break out in 2025. That list doesn’t update until March, so we’ll look at the mid-season update.
Let’s dig in!

Randy Soto

The Blue Jays signed catcher/first baseman Randy Soto during the 2024 international free agency period.
In his first professional season, the then 17-year-old slashed .269/.485/.351 with no home runs in 194 plate appearances, with his 149 wRC+ being undoubtedly the best on the Dominican Summer League Blue Jays. While he didn’t hit a home run, he had 11 doubles and a higher BB% (22.7%) than K% (13.4%).
Soto spent his time between first base and catcher. In 166 innings behind the plate, he committed four errors while throwing out 12 would-be base stealers in 45 attempts for a respectable 26.7 CS%. He also allowed six passed balls.
Moving up to the Florida Complex League will be a tough task, just ask Enmanuel Bonilla, but Soto was arguably their best rookie prospect last season and hopefully, he can keep this up.

Peyton Williams

The Blue Jays selected Peyton Williams with their seventh-round pick in the 2022 draft. Since then, he’s been one of their most underrated prospects.
Williams stands at 6’5”, 255 lb, and slashed .289/.362/.476 with 11 home runs in 334 plate appearances last season with the High-A Vancouver Canadians. The left-handed batting first baseman was a big reason why the Canadians turned around their season and ended up going to their third consecutive Northwest League Championship Series.
Due to the time he missed to begin the season, the Blue Jays sent Williams to the Arizona Fall League. With the Scottsdale Scorpions, he’s slashed .286/.344/.464 with three home runs in 93 plate appearances, with 23 strikeouts and eight walks. Two of those home runs came in the same game, and they were absolutely obliterated.
He doesn’t play a premier position by any means, but his power is some of the best in the organization.

Rainer Nuñez

Rainer Nuñez signed with the Jays in the 2017 international free agency period and it’s been an up-and-down career for him the past three seasons.
The first baseman had a terrific season in 2022, slashing .299/.328/.482 with 15 home runs in Single-A, eventually winning the Florida State League batting title. He was just as good in High-A Vancouver, slashing .321/.379/.491 with four home runs in 116 plate appearances. Nuñez also won the Dominican Winter League Rookie of the Year Award in 2022.
Unfortunately, after a solid start to his season in High-A, Nuñez struggled in Double-A, slashing .224/.273/.352 with 10 home runs in 326 plate appearances for a 70 wRC+. Moreover, his K% skyrocketed to 27%, by far the highest in his career.
However, Nuñez found success repeating the level, slashing .275/.349/.416 with 12 home runs in 433 plate appearances, with a 10.2 BB% and 20.1 K%. It’s a good sign for a first baseman who has some of the highest exit velocities in the organization.

Kai Peterson

Switching gears to pitchers, the Blue Jays selected left-handed reliever Kai Peterson with the 20th-round pick in the 2023 draft. There’s some bad and some really good in his game.
The 22-year-old lefty made his professional debut in 2024 with the Single-A Dunedin Blue Jays, posting a 4.60 ERA and a 3.30 FIP in 31.1 innings pitched. His 19.6 BB% at the level would be the second-highest for any pitcher in the Jays organization with 20 innings pitched. However, his 42.6 K% would’ve ranked as the second-best in the organization with the same sample size.
Peterson was called up to High-A Vancouver, where he had a 4.42 ERA and a 3.58 FIP in 18.1 innings pitched, along with a 32.6 K% and a 16.3 BB%. Overall, he finished with a 4.53 ERA and a 3.40 FIP in 49.2 innings pitched, with a 38.9 K% (second-best in the organization) and an 18.4 BB% (fifth-worst) in the organization.
If he can get his walk rate down, he could become their best lefty reliever in the minor league system.

Sann Omosako

Eric Pardinho is the most well-known Brazilian pitcher in the Blue Jays system, as the 23-year-old was once a top 100 MLB prospect. Thankfully, he re-signed, but the Jays also have another interesting Brazilian righty in the organization – Sann Omosako.
The 19-year-old signed as an international free agent during the 2023 period and posted a 2.61 ERA and a 3.93 FIP in 20.2 innings pitched with the Dominican Summer League Jays in 2023. He also had a 19.3 K% and a 3.6 BB%.
Omosako repeated the level in 2024, finishing the year with an improved 2.44 ERA and a 3.78 FIP in 55.1 innings pitched. His K% increased to 21.2%, while his BB% somehow dropped in half to 1.8%, the lowest walk percentage for any pitcher in the organization with 20+ innings pitched.
The Florida Complex League will be a big challenge as it is for all young players. However, Omosako is one of their more exciting young pitching prospects at the rookie level.
As always, you can follow me on Bluesky @ryleydelaney.bsky.social.

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