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2013 Top Prospects #12: Christian Lopes

The number twelve prospect on the Jays Journal top 30 countdown has become one of my personal favorites over the past year, though to be fair, a lot of that has to do with the revolving door of mediocrity…Read More

Prospect Positional Primer: Middle Infield

Late last fall, with inspiration from Jason Parks of Baseball Prospectus, I began writing a series of articles which I titled “Positional Primers”. I broke down the Blue Jays system into seven categories;…Read More

Blue Jays Prospect Hot Sheet: Week Eighteen

The players having good years are continuing to excel, while the players having poor years are continuing to struggle. This has resulted in frequent visits to the hot sheet by some, while others – cough…Read More

Blue Jays Prospect Hot Sheet: Week Sixteen-ish

After a multi-week hiatus the Blue Jays prospect hot sheet is back, and will be covering games from August 1st through 12th. The upper levels of the minor leagues have been decimated by call-ups, injuries,…Read More

Blue Jays Prospect Hot Sheet: Week Thirteen

The week spanning July 2nd through July 8th was easily the most impressive of the year, as OPS values above 1.000 were commonplace and even Deck McGuire had a dominant pitching performance. The hot sheet…Read More

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Blue Jays Prospect Hot Sheet: Week Eleven

I mentioned last week that with the three short season leagues beginning, the standards for making the…Read More

Bluefield Blue Jays Team Profile – Position Players

With the rosters for the two remaining short season teams – Bluefield and the Gulf Coast Blue Jays…Read More

Quick thoughts on Blue Jays Minor League camp

This morning, I was able to make it out to the Englebert Complex in Dunedin to watch some of the Jays…Read More

Jays Journal Top 50 Blue Jays Prospects: No. 43 Christian Lopes

Up next at No. 43 on our pre-2012 top prospects list is yet another shortstop, a high schooler from Southern…Read More