Just for fun lets see who these guys are...

• Buffalo - Gary Allenson - former catcher for the Jays in 1985 (14 games, plus 400 for the Red Sox) now 59 years old. Richie Hebner also finished in 1985 (3B/1B) mainly played for the Pirates 200 HR 1694 hits, 119 OPS+ lifetime and is now 67 years old. Randy St. Claire an Expo who finished as a Jay in 1994 relief pitcher who I always thought of as better than he was (94 ERA+ lifetime) and is now 54 years old.
• New Hampshire - Bobby Meacham a SS for the Yankees in the 80, his only full season as a regular was 1985. 73 OPS+ lifetime 58 SB, led league in bunts twice was actually a 1/2 decent player who should've had more of a shot now 54 years old. Stubby Clapp most famous for the hit that beat the USA years ago, only 23 games in the majors (St Louis at 2B/LF) is now 41. Bob Stanley a reliever for Boston has over 1700 IP in the majors and might be the last guy to lead the league in ERA+ as a pure reliever (1982 with a 140 in 168 1/3 IP) surprised to see he only had 3.7 K/9 lifetime.
  
• Dunedin - Omar Malave played all over in the Jays minors in the 80's OF/3B/SS/2B/1B and even pitched 6 times but just 8 games in AAA never reaching the majors, a manager since 1991 (age 28) with 1396 minor league wins and is now 51. John Tamargo Jr. caught and pinch hit (often) for St Louis/SF/Montreal with a 90 OPS+ lifetime (135 games) finishing in 1980 and is now 63 years old. Vince Horsman another Canadian came up as a Jay but was lost on waivers to the A's only had 5 ML seasons and pitched for a bit in a semi-pro league in Ontario now is 47 years old.
• Lansing - Ken Huckaby a pure defense catcher who reached at age 30 and somehow got 6 seasons in (41 OPS+ but just 23 after his 'great' year in Toronto with a 51) and is now 43. Kenny Graham no data for him in BR beyond managing the GCL team last year but has more data at The Baseball Cube which shows he is 39 years old and has 4 years experience as a hitting coach but never played pro. Jeff Ware now 44 was a starter/reliever for the Jays in the mid-90's but played until 2002 in indy leagues has been a pitching coach since 2004 every single year.
• Vancouver - John Schneider a catcher who never made the big time, has been a manager since 2009 except for one year as a pitching coach is just 34. Dave Pano never played pro but has coached rookie or A- since 2002. Jim Czajkowski just had 5 games in relief for the Rockies in 1994 but finished in the Jays system in 1997, has been a pitching coach since 2000.
• Bluefield - Dennis Holmberg never played higher than AA, a 3B/OF/1B/CA/P (retired after '77) is now 63 years old and has managed since 1979 and was the Jays bullpen coach in 94/95. Antonio Caceras I cannot find at BR or Baseball Cube.
• GCL - Cesar Martin played professionally from age 18 to 37 but never reached the majors. Most of those years were in the Mexican league. He was a pitcher - last year was a hitting coach.
  
• DSL - Jose Mateo there have been a few Jose Mateo's in the minors, not sure which is this one but probably the one who played in the Jays minors as a 19 year old in 1983 (OF) and is now 50 years old.
  

Stanley's k rate is crazy. Is there any role that has changed more than reliever in the game?

Thanks, John, for the biographical information. We've seen many of these names over the seasons and it's good to see some background.

John thanks for the bios. However you may want to double check John Tamargo Jr's info ...

http://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp ymd=20141218&content_id=104418634&fext=.jsp&vkey=news_t424&sid=t424

I seem to recall a MWL game where Jr, now 39, managed against his father, the original John Tamargo Jr, now Sr and 63

Oops, good catch jgadfly.  I was going from the name and what I could find quickly online (have kids, only so much time). 
John Tamargo Jr is only 39, a utility guy who played a lot at 2B, 3B, SS, caught twice, played 1B once.  His OPS at each level other than NCAA was in the 600's (841 in college).  Played until 2003, then a hitting coach in 2010/11, then manager 2012 to 2014 all at Lansing.  Interesting after 5 years in Lansing they are moving him to Dunedin.

Bob Stanley...

Whenever I think about Bob Stanley, I always remember an afternoon at Exhibition Stadium in 1986. I was sitting down the right field line, a few rows up from the visiting (Red Sox) bullpen.

Late in the game, Stanley got up and started throwing. Some guy near me in a Rex Sox jersey started screaming at him, over and over, "Stanley, you're a BUM!!!". Went on & on. No way Stanley didn't hear this guy. Then that fall, when Stanley had his biggest moment on the baseball stage, I wondered if the guy I listened to in the stands that day died of apoplexy.

John Sickels has started his Toronto Blue Jays Organization Discussion ... the comments, opinions and takes are always interesting to compare.

I read the comments over on John's site and I'm starting to get the impression that Anthony Alford is getting a little overhyped. He has't performed that well over in the ABL. I think there really should be no expectations on the kid until he gets a full year in.

considering he is a HS draftee and has played so little professional ball, I think Alford has performed vey well in Australia. Heard an interview with the play by play guy for Canberra who though he had all the tools and everything it took to be successful at the highest levels. I don't think he is over hyped at all.....more the opposite imo.

He hit 0.221, and we knew about the tools before he went there. If he actually played well you wouldn't have had to use anything like "considering he..."

Until he has any sort of production he just has tools. Everybody is talking about him and really I'm not sure its warranted.

Alford impressed the hell out of everyone the 2 weeks he was at Lansing.....basically just out of HS in baseball terms anyway......that is rare...small sample size for sure but all that has been seen so far seems extremely positive

RE Alford - after going 2/20 (with 10 k) in his first 5 games, he hit .258/.364/.409/.773

Make of that what you will

Anthony Alford might have gone top three in his draft if he declares for Baseball not Football. It's possible (at a minimum) he'd be assigned to AA by this year, if he was strictly in baseball from Day One; possibly in MLB by year's end. That how good he is.

Right now all he's got to do is Play Baseball - year round - for the next year (more Winter-ball next offseason). Chances are good that when he gets his stroke back he's just 1.5 to 2 years away. That's how good he can be.

That is the exact amount of overhype I am talking about? Top 3 in his draft? really? So he was viewed as a better prospect than Appel, Buxton, Zuino, Gausman or Correa?

It is impossible to know where he would have been drafted as all were aware of the football issue. All I will say is that he could be a rapid riser much as Pompey was this year, though due to his relative inexperience, I would not push too hard. If he makes it to AA, I think that will be a great accomplishment and will bode extremely well for him and for the Jays. Even finishing the year at High A Dunedin would be a considerable accomplishment under the circumstances. He is only 20.

So he was viewed as a better prospect than Appel, Buxton, Zuino, Gausman or Correa?

Yes. he was that talented. If a Prospect is so other-sport oriented, as Alford was, too many people no longer see him as a Baseball Prospect. So no matter how good he was at baseball, that was not important, picking someone easier to sign was.

http://www.minorleagueball.com/2013/8/22/4648394/the-2012-mlb-draft-where-are-they-now-first-round-update

Many guys viewed as football first do drop drastically in the draft vs where they'd be otherwise.  I remember how Bo Jackson was viewed as the #1 baseball talent in his draft class but fell to the 4th round where the Jays were planning to draft him according to Gillick but the Royals struck first, 2 picks before the Jays took Xavier Hernandez.  Funny thing is one pick before Bo was Mark Guthrie but he didn't sign and dropped to the 7th round the next year but had more bWAR than Bo did.  Quite the 4th round as Paul Sorrento was just before Guthrie and he did sign.  All 3 had under 10 WAR lifetime though surprisingly enough.

Deion Sanders was another football player who played baseball (drafted 30th round due to no one expecting him to sign) and did fairly well - a 9 year career worth 5.5 bWAR although if you remove his last season (age 33 after a few years away) and his first 3 (trying to do both at once and not doing well in baseball) you get up to 7.6 bWAR with a peak of 3.2 at age 24 in just 97 games for Atlanta where he hit 533/588/667 in the World Series vs the Jays in just 4 games.  That was the infamous year he dumped ice water on Tim McCarver 3 times and attempted a 4th but was confronted by McCarver who said 'you are a real man'.  This started due to McCarver complaining on air about Sanders playing NFL football in the afternoon then flying to Atlanta for a playoff game that night.  Sanders could've been great with his speed and raw talent but obviously had a big maturity and need for the spotlight problem.

Others exist I'm sure - I know a few star NFL'ers were drafted in later rounds and never signed - but Sanders & Jackson were both talented at both sports and did what many thought impossible, playing both at the top level and being somewhat successful.  Sanders was more NFL dedicated, Jackson more baseball but no question either would've helped any team at their peak.

J Schreader & Danny Ainge.

"So he was viewed as a better prospect than Appel, Buxton, Zuino, Gausman or Correa?

Yes. he was that talented."

No he wasn't. Alford was viewed as a likely first rounder with a profile similar to D. J. Davis - extremely toolsy with the big question being whether he could hit quality pitching.