At least one Blue Jays' prospect overlooked in FanSided's latest Top 100 list

It is very early in the professional baseball career for JoJo Parker, but he's showing all the right signs of developing into an impactful player at the MLB level. The Toronto Blue Jays' first round pick from 2025 (No. 8 overall) has been lighting it up in Single-A Dunedin in the first few weeks of the year and he's living up to the high expectations the scouting grades have set for him.

However, it doesn't seem like his hot start has impressed everyone as Parker may have been overlooked in FanSided's latest Top 100 prospects ranking with our colleague Eric Cole listed him at No. 54 on the list.

To be fair to Eric, 100 prospects is a lot to go through, and that's not even including the ones who were left off the list. But he may look back on this one in a few months time and think he could have pushed Parker up several notches. Parker, unlike others in the top 50, is also only in his first handful of games while others have played a season or two in the minors and it's a little bit easier to get a read on them. Regardless, Parker has been doing exactly what the Blue Jays hoped he would do when they drafted him.

Parker not pulling his punches at the plate

With 13 games under his belt (through Apr. 19) Parker has 14 hits, with two home runs, a 12:13 BB:K ratio and is slashing .298/.459/.553 with a 1.012 OPS. His analytical data is all into the red on the charts available on TJStats. Parker is hitting the ball with an average exit velocity of 96 mph - which sits in the 98th percentile and his hard hit% is 64.3% which also ranks in the 98th percentile.

These all track with the early scouting grades attributed to him shortly after he was drafted. On the Blue Jays prospects pipeline, Parker has a 60 hit grade and 55 power grade on the 20-80 scale. Scouts were also impressed with how he managed the strike zone while playing in high school in Mississippi and there's expectation that he'll improve on his whiff% (25.5%) and make even better zone contact (83.3%), but what's not beating Parker right now is velocity. He's been thrown a four-seam fastball 82 times and Parker has a .364 average on that pitch. Parker also has decent speed, swiping six bags already this year.

All of that to say that Parker is certainly deserving to be on this Top 100 list, but he may deserve to be placed even higher. On MLB.com's Top Prospect Rankings going into the 2026 season, he was ranked 40th with guys like Owen Caissie of the Marlins, who is already playing in the big leagues, ranked 37th. Chase DeLauter of the Guardians was ranked right behind him at No. 41 and he's also in the big leagues and has five home runs in his first 20 MLB games.

Parker is finding himself in some great company and he's only 19-years-old while Caissie is 23 and DeLauter is 24. So while No. 54 on the FanSided list is just fine for a teenager, Parker is a player that could very well be ranked higher, and probably will be by mid-season.

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