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Originally Posted by Beninho
With those more in-tuned with prospects what kind of potential does Jansen have? I know he’s in MLB’s too 100 prospects but I don’t know much about him
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I can give a brief background:
A 16th round pick out of high school he progressed up the Jays system year by year accumulating neither a great deal of playing time (due to rookie league short season being... well... short and by having some bad injury luck once he hit full season ball) nor what anyone would call acceptable slashlines. That all changed last year. Healthy and able to get some reps in he also got what is now the most famous part of his Big League story... glasses.
https://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/ml...spect-profile/
If your looking for a description of him as a baseball player this (in a nutshell) is what folk basically say: As a hitter his tools will probably be that of an average baseball player... he'll hit for average contact with average power, he's athletic but not fast. If that doesn't sound to appealing keep in mind that I said average baseball player. If you find a catcher who can catch enough (and well enough) to be the starter and he hits like an average player you throw a party. He has plus strike zone judgement (he walks as much as he strikes out). Defensively he get's passing grades across the board some concern about his ability to limit base-running but as we saw yesterday he clearly has enough arm to keep base-runners honest.
Eric Longenhagen (Scout and Prospect analyst for Fangraphs) was on a podcast a ways back discussing their top 100 list and said there was internal discussion about whether to put Jansen on it... they were all high on him and thought it was strange that a few other publications didn't have him on theirs so he called some Front Office contacts and they told him that they had asked the Blue Jays about acquiring him and the answer was always a flat "no".
