Baseball America's Top 40 Blue Jays Prospects for 2022

Friday, March 18 2022 @ 05:02 PM EDT

Contributed by: #2JBrumfield

The top 40 prospects in the Toronto Blue Jays farm system have been announced by Baseball America. However, it is really a Top 37 ranking as three of the players are no longer with the organization.


Spencer Horwitz enjoyed a breakout season in 2021 with Vancouver to place him in the top half of the Baseball America Blue Jays prospect rankings.

No.# Player Position
1 Gabriel Moreno (BA Grade: 65/High) C
2 Nate Pearson (BA Grade: 55/Medium) RHP
3 Orelvis Martinez (BA Grade: 60/High) SS/3B
4 Jordan Groshans (BA Grade: 55/High) SS/3B
5 Gunnar Hoglund * (BA Grade: 55/Extreme) RHP
6 Otto Lopez (BA Grade: 50/High) 2B/OF/SS
7 Kevin Smith * (BA Grade: 45/Medium) SS
8 Manuel Beltre (BA Grade: 50/Extreme) SS
9 Ricky Tiedemann (BA Grade: 50/Extreme) LHP
10 Leonardo Jimenez (BA Grade: 45/Very High) SS/2B
11 Samad Taylor 2B/OF
12 Estiven Machado SS
13 Sem Robberse RHP
14 Irv Carter RHP
15 Spencer Horwitz 1B/OF
16 C.J. Van Eyk RHP
17 Adam Kloffenstein RHP
18 Thomas Hatch RHP
19 Tanner Morris 2B/3B/SS
20 Chad Dallas RHP
21 Miguel Hiraldo SS/2B
22 Dahian Santos RHP
23 Yhoangel Aponte OF
24 Zach Logue * LHP
25 Eric Pardinho RHP
26 Kendry Rojas LHP
27 Hagen Danner RHP
28 Rikelbin De Castro SS
29 Luis Garcia SS
30 Josh Palacios OF
31 Victor Mesia C
32 Bowden Francis RHP
33 Adrian Hernandez LHP
34 Fitz Stadler RHP
35 Dasan Brown OF
36 Trent Palmer RHP
37 Joey Murray RHP
38 Yosver Zulueta RHP
39 Addison Barger SS/2B/3B
40 Rainer Nunez 1B

* Traded to Oakland in Matt Chapman deal March 16


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Also of note, Baseball America did not mention C.J. Van Eyk underwent Tommy John surgery last September and is expected to miss the entire 2022 season. It would have been interesting to see if that would have had an effect on Van Eyk's ranking.

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