Trey Yesavage among three Blue Jays featured on BA’s pre-season top 100 prospects list

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By Thomas Hall
Jan 21, 2026, 11:30 ESTUpdated: Jan 21, 2026, 11:44 EST
To no one’s surprise, rookie phenom Trey Yesavage cracked Baseball America’s 2026 pre-season top 100 prospects list when the annual rankings were released on Wednesday. But he wasn’t the only Toronto Blue Jays prospect featured.
Fellow top Blue Jays prospects Arjun Nimmala and Jojo Parker were also listed among the industry’s top 100 prospects, ranking 62nd and 66th, respectively. Yesavage sits as the 10th-highest ranked prospect on the list, courtesy of his 60-grade ranking from BA.
Pittsburgh’s Konnor Griffin is ranked the sport’s No. 1 overall top prospect, slotting in ahead of Detroit’s Kevin McGonigle and St. Louis’ JJ Wetherholt — with that trio comprising BA’s top three prospects for 2026 heading into spring training.
Among the notable omissions from the Blue Jays’ pipeline was highly-touted lefty starter Johnny King, who BA listed as an honourable mention that nearly missed cracking this year’s top 100 list in a separate article.
Yesavage, of course, took the baseball world by storm last season, making his inclusion among the sport’s top 10 best prospects for ’26 an obvious choice. He dominated across all four minor-league levels in his first season of pro ball, punching out 160 batters over 98.0 innings (25 appearances) before announcing his presence at the big-league level last September, impressing in three starts with the Blue Jays.
That rapid ascent earned the 22-year-old — who’ll maintain his rookie status for next season — an opportunity on Toronto’s post-season roster, and he certainly didn’t disappoint — striking out 11 over 5.1 scoreless innings in Game 2 of the ALDS versus the New York Yankees, the most punchouts by a Blue Jays pitcher in a playoff game. He also shut down the Los Angeles Dodgers’ star-studded lineup in Game 5 of the World Series, tossing seven innings of one-run ball with 12 strikeouts.
Nimmala, the organization’s first-round selection in 2023, hit the ground running out of the gate in 2025, slashing .270/.358/.484 with 11 home runs and a 130 wRC+ (100 league average) over his first 61 games at high-A Vancouver. But the 20-year-old shortstop’s production hit a wall around the midway mark of the season, struggling to a .173/.264/.267 clip and failing to hit more than a pair of round-trippers over his final 59 contests.
There’s still immense potential, especially at such a young age. But the Blue Jays will be looking for more consistency from their top infield prospect in ’26.
After being selected eighth overall last summer, Parker is entering his first season of pro ball this year and will likely begin his career in the Florida Complex League. The 19-year-old infielder is well-regarded for his exceptional athleticism and bat-to-ball skills with impressive plate discipline, making him one of the top-tier jewels of Toronto’s system.
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