Assessing the Blue Jays position player depth options at Triple-A

After a cold, cold April, the Blue Jays bats have started to heat up as of late thanks to some timely hitting from various hitters up and down the lineup. 

But that doesn’t mean that there still isn’t room for the roster to improve. The Blue Jays have cycled through a variety of players for their utility and bench roles throughout the year, and that likely won't stop even if the team's doing better.

With that in mind, here's a look at how have of the most MLB-ready players in Buffalo are doing. 

Assessing the Blue Jays position player depth options at Triple-A

OF Alan Roden

Roden broke camp with the Blue Jays after a strong spring training, and got off to a strong start when he went 7-for-21 across his first eight games of the year. 

He failed to build on that momentum, however, as he went 6-for-52 (.115) across the next 20 games before being sent down to Triple-A at the beginning of May. 

The Blue Jays sent Roden down to Triple-A to help him find his groove in the batter’s box, and it seems like he’s done just that. 

Roden’s hitting .386 in 10 games at Triple-A with three home runs, nine RBI and six walks. 

Roden wasn’t making enough hard contact during his time with the Blue Jays, but he’s been beating the cover off the ball during his time with the Bisons.

Even though Roden had a rough first month in MLB, he’s still a big part of the Blue Jays’ future, and his strong showing in Triple-A shows exactly why that is. We should see him back in Toronto at some point this year. 

OF/2B Davis Schneider 

Schneider also broke camp with the Blue Jays after spring training, but he ended up being the first position player to lose their spot on the roster after a rough start to the season. 

Schneider opened the season 0-for-13 before recording his first hit of the season in a win over the Orioles on April 13. It also ended up being the last game he played in during his stint with the Jays, as the team optioned him to Triple-A when they reinstated Nathan Lukes from the paternity list. 

Things haven’t gone much better for Schneider in Triple-A, as the 26-year-old is hitting .198 in 26 games. While he’s slugging .406 (five doubles, two triples, four home runs), he also has a strikeout rate of 38.1%. 

Schneider's struggled in MLB since his breakout 2023 season, and his time in Triple-A has reinforced how incomplete of a player he is.

INF Will Wagner

Wagner also made the team out of camp as a utility option off the bench, but he also wasn’t able to make the most of his opportunity. He hit just .186 in 20 games and had an OPS+ of 47. 

While Wagner had a great walk rate (11.8%), he wasn’t able to do much when he put the ball in play, as he had a hard-hit rate of just 37.8% to go along with a strikeout rate of 22.1%. 

Wagner’s Bisons tenure got off to a good start (.267 average with two home runs in eight games), but it came to a screeching halt last week when he was placed on the minor league 7-Day injured list after he fouled a ball off his foot. 

Wagner entered camp with a lot of hype after a strong showing in 2024, but he failed to build on that during his first stint with the Blue Jays in 2025. 

OF Joey Loperfido

The first player on this list who hasn’t played in MLB yet this year, Loperfido played in 43 games with the Blue Jays last season and hit just .197 with two home runs. 

Loperfideo’s been a mainstay in the Bisons lineup this year (he leads the team with 148 at-bats), and has made the most of those opportunities. He’s slashing .257/.339/.405 this year with five home runs and 23 RBI, which has been good for a wRC+ of 103. 

While Blue Jays acquired Loperfido with the thinking that’d be a key piece of their outfield picture in the future, his path to the roster got a little tougher after the team signed Anthony Santander in the offseason along with trading for Myles Straw. 

Still, his team debut this season seems like a matter of “when,” not “if.” 

INF Orelvis Martinez

The last time we checked in on Martinez, he was heating up after a slow start to the season. 

And while he’s cooled off again in the three weeks since (.180 batting average in 12 games), he’s also slugged three homers in that span, which pretty much sums up the Martinez experience. 

He’s never going to be mistaken for Tony Gwynn in the batter’s box, but he also has the ability to send every pitch thrown his way into orbit. 

The Blue Jays’ offense has started to hit for more power (their 23 home runs in May is seventh in MLB), so there isn’t as much of a need for Martinez on the current roster as there was earlier in the year. He's slashing .197/.287/.378.

That said, it seems like we’ll see Martinez at some point this year.