The future for the Toronto Blue Jays is looking a little bleak.
On Thursday evening, MLB Pipeline updated its top 100 list, with only one Blue Jay prospect on it – Trey Yesavage, who ranked 94th overall.
This is despite the Blue Jays selling at the trade deadline, acquiring prospects such as Charles McAdoo, Jake Bloss, Will Wagner, Cutter Coffey, and others. While they may have improved their overall farm with these players, it’s pretty clear that the Jays still don’t have a ton of top-end prospects.
With that being said, it’s not hard to imagine that they have a few prospects that are near the list. Orelvis Martínez is one of the best power bats in the minor league, but he served an 80-game suspension for PED usage. Ricky Tiedemann was the team’s top prospect for over two years, but he required Tommy John surgery in 2024 and will be out for a while. At the beginning of the season, he ranked as baseball’s 28th-best prospect.
While Arjun Nimmala’s strikeout rate was on the high side with the Dunedin Blue Jays, he hit a career-high 17 home runs and could rank somewhere in the top 100 as soon as next season.
Still, it’s a little bit worrisome that the Boston Red Sox have not just six players in the top 100, but three players in the top 10. The American League East-winning New York Yankees also have only one prospect in the top 100, but Jasson Domínguez ranks as the 14th-best prospect in baseball.
The Baltimore Orioles have two top 100 prospects, but Coby Mayo ranks as the eighth-best prospect in baseball, while catcher Samuel Basallo ranks as the 13th-best. Even the Rays, who finished in a similar position to the Jays in 2024, have three top 100 prospects, including the fourth-best prospect in baseball, Carson Williams.
It’s been said plenty that the Blue Jays wish to contend in 2025 as it’s Bo Bichette and Vladimir Guerrero Jr.’s final seasons under team control before heading to free agency. It looks as if the Blue Jays won’t have much prospect capital to trade if they wish to build the 2025 team through that pathway.
If, or even when, Guerrero Jr. and Bichette leave, it may be a long few years of rebuilding if things don’t change quickly.
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