2024 Toronto Blue Jays Season Thread

[flambers]

Originally Posted by cral12

How many more deals do Jays make?

At least 1 more , (Yusei Kikuchi)

While, I wonder if Kevin Kiermaier will be traded

Another player, who could go is Chad Green (my guess)

[Flamesfan05]

Originally Posted by DoubleK

Are any of these guys going to be good?

They are all low ceiling long shots

Even the Jays top prospect is doubtful now

[flamingred89]

Yeah baseball prospects are the biggest crapshoots in professional sports. For every Paul Skenes you have a hundred top ranked prospects that don't amount to anything. It's all about building depth in the system and provide enough skilled players to learn off one another and hope someone can put it together in the show.

[SuperMatt18]

Originally Posted by flamingred89

Yeah baseball prospects are the biggest crapshoots in professional sports. For every Paul Skenes you have a hundred top ranked prospects that don't amount to anything. It's all about building depth in the system and provide enough skilled players to learn off one another and hope someone can put it together in the show.

Yeah it's interesting to look back at the 1st couple rounds of MLB drafts and see who actually panned out as an all star.

Like you'd expect the guys drafted in 2013-2019 to have started to make an impact by now...and usually it's a handful of guys out of the top 80 picks.

2019: 9 / 78 (Rutschman, Witt Jr, Greene, Abrams, Jung, Manoah, Carroll, Kirby, Henderson)
2018: 4 / 78 (Bohm, Gilbert, McClanahan, Gray)
2017: 5 / 78 (Greene, Rogers, Ramos, Houck, Rooker)
2016: 5 / 77 (Ragans, Smith, Reynolds, Alonso, Bichette)
2015: 9 / 78 (Swanson, Bregman, Tucker, Benintendi, Happ, Naylor, Buehler, Soroka, Riley)
2014: 8 / 74 (Rodon, Schwarber, Nola, Hoffman, Conforto, Turner, Chapman, Keller)
2013: 8 / 73 (Bryant, Meadows, Anderson, Judge, Lorenzen, Knebel, McMahon, Williams)

And some of those guys made all-star teams...but I'm not even sure I'd call them star players.

MLB draft tends to be the one where luck, and post-draft development probably plays the biggest role. Even within top 5 picks it's generally a crap shoot if they become an impact player.

Unless you think a guy is going to be an absolute super star and a top 10 prospect in all of baseball you probably get more value out of trading them in the MLB.

[JTech780]

Originally Posted by flambers

At least 1 more , (Yusei Kikuchi)

While, I wonder if Kevin Kiermaier will be traded

Another player, who could go is Chad Green (my guess)

IKF has been talked about as well.

[JTech780]

Originally Posted by Flamesfan05

They are all low ceiling long shots

Even the Jays top prospect is doubtful now

They all seem to have one intriguing tool, Clase has elite speed, Coffey has intriguing power, Pinango has really good bat to ball skills. None of them have multiple tools at their disposal at first glance. A lot of times, it’s just about making the right adjustments to go from minor leaguer to MLB regular.

[flamingred89]

Man the Orioles are a lucky bunch. Jays have been hitting rockets all over the field today just right at people.

[Parallex]

Originally Posted by flambers

Divish adds in a subsequent tweet that the player is outfielder RJ Schreck.

Grade "A" name... not a whole lot going on other then that.

He's 24 already (drafted as a 5th year senior out of Vanderbilt... was at Duke the first 4 years). It's fine, old man Turner wasn't going to get much from anyone.

Frankly what I'd really like is if they could just get rid of everyone Atkins has brought in over the last few years (I might make an exception for Varsho provided that he becomes the starting centerfielder... no more of this light-hitting corner outfielder nonsense). Then fire Atkins.

[flambers]

Originally Posted by Parallex

Grade "A" name... not a whole lot going on other then that.

He's 24 already (drafted as a 5th year senior out of Vanderbilt... was at Duke the first 4 years). It's fine, old man Turner wasn't going to get much from anyone.

Frankly what I'd really like is if they could just get rid of everyone Atkins has brought in over the last few years (I might make an exception for Varsho provided that he becomes the starting centerfielder... no more of this light-hitting corner outfielder nonsense). Then fire Atkins.

He was drafted in 2023, 9th round.

[Inferno]

Just got an alert saying Kikuchi to Houston.

[Inferno]

Pitcher Jake Bloss is supposed to be the return according to Rossenthal.

[Jiggy_12]

Apparently for a pretty good SP prospect too. The #2 in the Astros org, Jake Bloss

First return of any significance

[flamingred89]

Nice to get an MLB arm back in that trade. Let's see what Pete Walker can do with him. Hopefully it turns out like the Lariano deadline deal with Houston in 2017.

[bluejays]

Not the same situation but with some of our other notable trades we gave up two legit prospects at the time for our returns (getting Varsho and separately Barrios). Why couldn’t we get the same in return here for a bonafide guy? I honestly expected a bit more for Kikuchi.

[Inferno]

There might be more. I’m seeing a lot of “return package” on Twitter.

[Roof-Daddy]

What a solid trade. Apparently two more prospects coming back on top of Bloss.

Bloss was just recently rated as a 50FV on fangraphs, is a top 100 prospect in all of MLB and has already worked his way up to the majors despite just being drafted a year ago.

Hell of a solid return for a few months of Kooch

[KootenayFlamesFan]

I read on twitter that a lot of Astros fans aren’t happy.

Good.

[KelVarnsen]

Francis sucks

[flamingred89]

Vlad is an absolute animal right now and quickly closing in on .900OPS

[Hockey]

Bloss was supposed to start for Astros today too.