Baseball America's Top 30 Blue Jays Prospects For 2017

Friday, April 21 2017 @ 07:02 AM EDT

Contributed by: #2JBrumfield

The parent club is too depressing to watch so let's look at the Top 30 prospects in the Toronto Blue Jays system according to Baseball America.


Baseball America ranks 2016 first-round pick T.J. Zeuch as the #8 prospect in the Blue Jays system.


2016 second-round pick J.B. Woodman finds himself right in the middle of the Blue Jays Top 30 prospects list according to Baseball America.

In past years, this thread came before the season as I would order the book through Baseball America and then Amazon or Indigo. Due to a weak loonie and cost, I decided to stop doing that after BA decided to finally release an e-book version last year, which came out after I ordered the hard copy of course. Deciding I won't get fooled again, I waited for BA to release the electronic version which was not available until April 18 so that's why this thread was delayed. I think the delayed release date is ridiculous but that's what you get for being fiscally and environmentally responsible. Without further ado...

Here is how Baseball America grades each player, based on the traditional 20-80 scouting scale:

Risk factors for each player are as follows:
The Blue Jays have the 20th best system in MLB according to BA, up four spots from 2016.

No.# Player Position Grade     Risk 2016 Rank
1
 Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
 3B
 65
 High
 3
2
 Anthony Alford
 OF
 60
 High
 1
3
 Lourdes Gourriel Jr.
 IF/OF
 55
 High
 NR
4
 Sean Reid-Foley
 RHP
 55
 High
 5
5
 Conner Greene
 RHP
 55
 High
 2
6
 Richard Urena
 SS
 55
 High
 4
7
 Rowdy Tellez
 1B
 55
 High
 7
8
 T.J. Zeuch
 RHP
 55
 High
 NR
9
 Bo Bichette
 2B/SS
 55
 Extreme
 NR
10
 Jon Harris
 RHP
 50
 High
 6
11
 Justin Maese
 RHP
 50
 High
 9
12
 Max Pentecost
 C/1B
 55
 Extreme
 8
13
 Reese McGuire
 C
 45
 Medium
 NR
14
 Harold Ramirez
 OF
 50
 High
 NR
15
 J.B. Woodman
 OF
 50
 High
 NR
16
 Ryan Borucki
 LHP
 50
 Extreme
 14
17
 Francisco Rios
 RHP
 45
 High
 NR
18
 Angel Perdomo
 LHP
 50
 Extreme
 26
19
 Joshua Palacios
 OF
 45
 High
 NR
20
 Patrick Murphy
 RHP
 50
 Extreme
 NR
21
 Zach Jackson
 RHP
 50
 Extreme
 NR
22
 Danny Jansen
 C
 45
 High
 22
23
 Danny Barnes
 RHP
 40
 Medium
 NR
24
 Jordan Romano
 RHP
 45
 High
 NR
25
 Cavan Biggio
 2B
 45
 High
 NR
26
 Osman Gutierrez
 RHP
 50
Extreme
 NR
27
 Yeltsin Gudino
 SS
 45
 Extreme
 NR
28
 Yennsy Diaz
 RHP
 45
 Extreme
 19
29
 Matt Dermody
 LHP
 40
 Medium
 NR
30
 Travis Hosterman
 LHP
 45
 Extreme
 NR

The Prospect Handbook also contains Top 50 MLB prospect lists from five BA writers. Their rankings of where the Blue Jays top prospects rank among their peers are in parentheses.

There are 17 new names on this year's top 30 list and here is how it breaks down.

Players from the 2016 Top 30 list who missed the cut in 2017. No parentheses next to the player's name means he is still in the Blue Jays organization.

The biggest riser on the list is Perdomo, who jumped from 26 to 18. Diaz fell the farthest from last year as he dropped from 19 to 28.

Baseball America says Cavan Biggio has the best strike zone discipline in the Blue Jays system.

Best Tools - Hitting/Running/Fielding

Zach Jackson throws the best curveball among Blue Jays prospects according to Baseball America.

Best Tools - Pitching

Top Rookie - Gourriel

Breakout Prospect - Murphy

Sleeper - Bradley Jones

Projected 2020 Lineup

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