Three of last year's Top 30 graduated to the major league team, Spencer Horwitz, Leo Jiménez and Addison Barger. One member of last year's top 30 was traded, that being Yosver Zulueta. That leaves 26 players from last year's list and 15 of them are repeating on this list. Between the graduates, the trade and the sropped players, there is room for 15 new prospects.

The other big story of the season was the trades made at the end of July. The trades added players to the system as did the 2024 draft. Several of those players are now on this top years top 30. That left room for six players who were in the system in 2023 and improved to get on this list.

30. Mason Fluharty | LHP

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Mason Fluharty’s ability to break bats may lead to a breakthrough debut with the Toronto Blue Jays in 2025. The Lewes, Delaware native was a first baseman/outfielder and pitcher at Cape Henlopen High School and helped the Vikings win its first-ever State Championship in 2018 by striking out the final batter looking.

Fluharty headed to Lynchburg, Virginia to attend Liberty University in 2020 and became a full-time reliever. His 2022 campaign saw him fan 83 batters in 50-2/3 innings, posting a 6-3 record with a 2.84 earned run average and two saves. That landed the 6-foot-2, 215-pound hurler a spot on the Atlantic Sun All-Conference second team.

The Blue Jays drafted Fluharty in the fifth round in 2022 and gave him a signing bonus of $222,500. He bypassed Dunedin and began his pro career in Vancouver that August. He split 2023 in Vancouver and New Hampshire before spending all of 2024 in Buffalo.

Fluharty has struck out just over 11 batters per nine innings over his three years as a pro. His pitch mix focuses on a sweeping slider and a cut fastball. The slider is considered a plus or plus-plus offering, which checks in around 78-81 miles per hour and breaks about 17-18 inches on average according to MLB Pipeline. His cutter clocks in at 87-89.

The arsenal from Fluharty is deployed from a three-quarters delivery. He told C’s Plus Baseball in 2023 that his pitching coach at Liberty “thought it would be a good idea to move myself all the way over to the first base side. It's really hard on lefties, so it's even better for me.” Fluharty also mentioned he "actually really like facing righties. I like breaking a lot of bats."

In 2024 with the Herd, Fluharty sickened lefthanded hitters to the tune of a .200 batting average against while righties hit .242 against him. He kept his monthly ERAs below 4.00 save for a 4.50 June and a 6.10 August. However, he bounced back with a 1.13 mark in September by allowing just one run over eight innings covering seven innings.

Fluharty hopes to join former Liberty Flames outfielder Ian Parmley to reach the bigs with Toronto after Parmley got a three-game cameo in 2017. 

Fluharty—who will turn 24 years old on August 13—could very well be on the short list of callups to the Jays bullpen in 2025.

29. Cutter Coffey | OF

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The Toronto Blue Jays hope Cutter Coffey will provide sufficient grounds for trading catcher Danny Jansen to the Boston Red Sox. In what they hope is a fair trade, the Blue Jays acquired the left-side infielder from Bakersfield, California along with shortstop Eddinson Paulino and righthanded pitcher Gilberto Batista from Beantown.

Coffey was a two-way player at Liberty High School in Bakersfield, California and showcased a 90-94 mile per hour fastball and a low-80s slider. His bat surpassed his mound magic as the 6-foot-1, 190-pound righthanded hitter batted .442 with 12 home runs in his 2022 senior season and was named to the Max Preps All-California 1st Team.

The professional grind for Coffey began when he was drafted in the second round of the 2022 draft by the Beantown squad and received a $1.85 million signing bonus. His first cuppa Joe in pro ball that summer was not brewed to perfection as he slugged just .156 in 11 games with the Florida Complex League. However, there was a shot of flavour to the java as he drew a walk in 17.5 percent of his plate appearances to boost his on-base percentage to .300.

In 2023, Coffey spent the majority of time percolating with Low-A Salem where he had six home runs among 22 extra-base hits and stole 18 bases. He got a brief trial at High-A Greenville but slugged just .167 in an 18-game-trial.

The 2024 campaign saw Coffey’s power begin to filter through after missing a good part of May with a concussion. In a return engagement at Greenville, he enjoyed a power boost in June by homering in six straight games, going deep seven times against Asheville and won South Altantic League Player of the Week honours. That highlighted a month in which he slashed .300/.391/.638.

Red Sox director of player development Brian Abraham told MassLive.com that Coffey made mechanical adjustments to free up his swing with a lot of focus on his bat speed. His 90th percentile exit velo has jumped.” Baseball America says Abraham’s claim on the 90 percent figure checks out as Coffey’s exit velocity jumped from 98.7 miles per hour in 2023 to 102.5 miles per hour in 2024.

“We’ve really seen a player who has continued to evolve. Making consistent contact. Barreling the ball up. And doing damage pull-side in the air more consistently. He’s almost doubled his air-pull percentage since last year. It’s allowed him to do more damage.”

Coffey’s July numbers were not nearly as good with the Drive as he batted just .197 despite getting on base in his last nine games. The Americano had a tough time when he crossed the border to join the Vancouver Canadians. Despite getting a hit in four of his first five contests, Coffey batted just .154 with one home run in 18 games. However, he recorded back-to-back two-hit games to begin September and had two more hits along with the game-winning RBI in the C’s Game 2 victory over Spokane in the Northwest League Championship Series. The Blue Jays hope an offseason at the Player Development Complex in Dunedin will help Coffey refine his below-average hit tool and tap more into his plus power.

With the glove, Coffey saw more time at third base in 2024 with the Boston and Toronto organizations. The scouting consensus is he is an average fielder with slightly below-average range. However, his plus-throwing arm will be sufficient at the hot corner.

Coffey—who will turn 21 years old on May 21—will hope for instant results in 2025 which may see him return north of the border to enjoy more Tim Horton’s.

28. Grant Rogers | RHP

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Grant Rogers admits he's afraid of birds but he was not afraid of batters in his first professional season.

Rogers' future as a pitcher was very much in doubt as a youngster. He told C's Plus Baseball in an upcoming feature that an osteochondral defect (OCD) issue in his right elbow as an 11-year-old threatened to derail his pitching career. As a result, Rogers started throwing lefthanded for a while before being cleared to throw righthanded on the mound during his sophomore season at Port Neches-Groves High School in Texas. In addition to pitching, Rogers was also a quarterback at PN-G. He encountered another roadblock in the form of a growth plate issue in his right shoulder and that kept him from pitching in his junior season. However, he was able to return to the mound for his senior campaign in 2019.

Rogers remained in the Lone Star State in 2020 to attend junior college by going to Panola College in Carthage. He won both of his decisions for the Ponies with a 2.81 earned run average and struck out 30 batters in 25-2/3 innings before COVID cancelled the season. The 2021 season was not as kind as his ERA shot up to 5.26 despite fanning 55 batters in 49-2/3 innings.

A change of scenery did wonders for Rogers as he transferred to McNeese State. He racked up a dozen awards during his two years at Lake Charles, Louisiana, including the 2022 and 2023 Southland Conference Pitcher of the Year. After a 7-4 record and 4.26 ERA in 2022, Rogers went 12-1 with a 1.82 ERA in 2023 and put up an 88-18 strikeout/walk total in 103-2/3 innings.

The Toronto Blue Jays would take Rogers in the 11th round of the 2023 MLB Draft and gave him a $150,000 bonus for signing his name on the dotted line.

After surpassing the 100-inning mark with the Cowboys, Rogers did not make his pro debut until 2024. He started out with Low-A Dunedin and put up a 2.57 ERA in April which began with four shutout frames and six punchouts at Tampa on April 11. Rogers was roughed up in May with a 5.74 ERA but he rebounded with marks of 3.93 and 3.60 in June and July respectively before being promoted to High-A Vancouver in August.

The baseball field in YVR bears Rogers' name and it really was his field on the night of his debut on August 4. He stonewalled Tri-City with eight shutout innings and nine strikeouts to earn the victory in his Northwest League debut, earning Pitcher of the Week honours. Rogers finished up strong with six shutout frames and eight Ks against Eugene in September and logged another stellar performance with just one run allowed over 6-1/3 innings in the deciding Game 4 of the Northwest League Championship Series at Spokane.

Rogers' pitch mix features a cutter, four-seam fastball, sinker, slider, and a changeup. He told C's Plus Baseball he considers his sinker and cutter to be his best pitches and shared a scouting report of himself.

"I'd say a lot of sinkers if you're a righty (righthanded bat), get ready for that. Lefties, you might see a front door sinker, back door sinker and I'll mix in a four-seam at the top of the zone. And then when the slider is good, it's really good when it's not really short so you see that."

As for a platoon split, Rogers fared well enough against lefties and righties by holding them to an identical .246 batting average.

Baseball America listed Rogers as someone who improved the https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/mlb-prospects-who-added-the-most-fastball-velocity-in-2024/">velocity on his four-seam fastball, indicating it went from 89.4 to 91.7 miles per hour in 2024.

The 2025 season may see Rogers return to Vancouver before getting a promotion to Double-A New Hampshire. He will turn 24 years old on May 22.

27. Dasan Brown | CF

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Dasan Brown has been teasing Blue Jay fans for years with his potential. The athletic Brown is praised for his top tier play in centre field. The question was, and still is, will his hitting be good enough to get to the major leagues?

Brown gets more notice because he is a local guy, from Oakville. He was drafted out of high school in 2019 and initially was described as raw. This was because he hadn't been consistently exposed to top tier opposition compared to players from Florida or California would have been.

Progress for Brown has been steady but slow. One year in the complex league, a year and a half in the Florida State League and two years in Vancouver. 2022 was arguably Brown's best season. He hit .279 in Dunedin with an .819 OPS. He moved up to Vancouver mid-season and hit .298 with an OPS of .803. He returned to Vancouver in 2023 and had a much worse year. He hit just .218 with a .624 OPS. There didn't appear to be an reason for the poor performance other than a poor BABIP, surprising for someone with excellent speed.

Brown returned to Vancouver for 2024 and generally made small improvements across the board. His batting average, OBP and SLG all improved. His K rate dropped a bit from 25% to 24%, his walk rate improved from 9% to 12%. His BABIP returned to a more normal level and the biggest increase was in his isolated power which jumped from .097 to .154. His wRC+ in Vancouver was 121 which combined with his excellent defense in a premium position was deemed worthy of a promotion. He joined New Hampshire in early August.

AA was less kind to Brown, all his numbers took a dip in the 32 games he played there. However, there was a sign of progress. Brown was hitless in his first two games and didn't have a multi hit game until his 17th game. He hit .179 in August but improved to .286 in September. He also improved his strikeout rate. He didn't have much power to show in NH.

Brown has made slow but steady progress up the Jays system. He played as a 22-year-old in 2024, so he made it to AA as a 22-year-old. That is good. It is said that the jump to AA is the hardest to navigate, other than the jump to the major leagues. In 2025 Brown will return to New Hampshire to prove he can handle the level. A full year of more slow and steady progress would leave Brown in a good place.

26. Peyton Williams | 1B

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The Toronto Blue Jays are crying for power at the major league level and Peyton Williams could help fill that need for them in the near future.

The big man from Des Moines, Iowa is more athletic than he's given credit for. The 6-foot-5, 255-pound Williams was a tight end in football and played basketball in addition to baseball at Johnston High School. He helped Johnston win a state title in 2017 and was named Player of the Year by the Iowa High School Association and the Iowa Prep Baseball Report in 2019 thanks to a stat line that featured a .473 batting average, a 1.000 slugging percentage, 16 home runs and 53 runs batted in.

Williams continued to display his acumen with the bat when he attended the University of Iowa. He slashed .333/.500/.667 in his three-year stay with the Hawkeyes and was named a Collegiate Baseball Freshman All-American in the COVID-shortened 2020 season and an All-Big Ten Conference First Team selection honours in 2022. His most notable performance came on April 12, 2022 when he hit for the cycle by going 5-for-5 with a hit by pitch against Bradley.

The Toronto Blue Jays picked Williams in the seventh round of the 2022 MLB Draft and gave him a signing bonus of $197,500. He reported to Low-A Dunedin where his power did not show up right away but he maintained his patient approach at the plate with a .382 on-base percentage. Williams helped Dunedin reach the Florida State League final by batting .353 with an OPS of .899 in the postseason.

Williams was rated the best power hitter in the 2022 Blue Jays draft class by Baseball America, noting that "his 90th percentile exit velocity (105 mph) and peak exit velocity (108 mph) marks were the best of the draft class".

Things began to kick into high gear for Williams in 2023 when he overcame a tough April to put together a stellar May in which he slugged .562 with six doubles and five home runs. That resulted in a promotion to High-A Vancouver in which he homered in his second game with Monty’s Mounties against Eugene on June 1 and he went deep again in Game 1 of a doubleheader at Everett on June 10. Williams then came through with the glove in Game 2 that night with a diving stop at first base. He then dove for the bag just in time to get the first out in the seventh inning to help preserve a seven-inning no-hitter. Unfortunately, he suffered a shoulder injury that would sideline him for the better part of two months.

Williams eventually returned to the C's in August and slugged .500 in 18 contests with four homers and 13 RBI. In the postseason, he took one for the team and scored the winning run in Game 1 of the Northwest League Championship Series at Everett. Unfortunately, the injury bug got him again in Game 2 when he jammed his wrist against the railing chasing a foul ball on the first base side. Williams did hang around for the C's championship clincher in Game 4 but he was on the sidelines to start 2024.

After a few games with the Florida Complex League and Dunedin Blue Jays in late May, Williams came back to Vancouver in early June and as luck would have it, his season debut came in Everett. Thankfully, he emerged from Funko Field unscathed but he needed a couple of weeks to get his timing down as his batting average was under .200 on June 18. He got better as the summer went along, winning a Northwest League Player of the Week award in August to highlight a month that included 15 extra-base hits, including seven homers, and a slash line of .299/.342/.570. Williams also recorded a hit in all four games of the NWL final against Spokane.

The last stop for Williams was in Arizona as he played fall ball in Scottsdale. He had a two-homer game and collected eight extra-base hits during his AFL stint in which he batted .286/.344./464. He was also a participant in the AFL Fall Stars Game and the Home Run Derby.

The left-handed hitting Williams was adept at going the opposite way by putting the ball in play 36.5 percent of the time compared to his pull rate of 39.6 according to FanGraphs. He hit well against righties with a .932 OPS but not as well against lefties at .653.

Baseball America listed Williams as a hitter who made good swing decisions with an in-zone swinging rate of 80 percent and a chase rate of 24 percent, surpassing the BA benchmarks set at 74 percent for IZ-swings and 27 percent chases.

With the glove, Williams was surehanded and showed good agility by committing just one error in 56 starts at first base and that helped contribute to becoming a member of the Northwest League Post-Season All-Star team.

Double-A New Hampshire should be the next stop for the man known as The Iowa Meat Truck in 2025. He will be 25 years old on September 14.

25. Brandon Barriera | LHP

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Brandon Barriera was hoping for a bounce back 2024. The Jays first-round pick in the 2022 draft out of a Florida high school had a rocky start to his career. He did not pitch in 2022 after being signed which was a bit of a surprise as Barriera cut short his high school season to be ready for the draft. Based on his not having pitched much in 2022 there was a lot of interest to see how he would start 2023. Barriera was assigned to extended spring training to begin the season and was called up to Dunedin at the start of May. He made four starts there but then ended on the IL with a sore elbow. He returned in July and made three more starts before once again going on the IL with bicep soreness. In total, it was an 18-inning season for Barriera and a 4.42 ERA in Dunedin. While he did lose time to injury, there were also reports or suggestions that he showed up to spring training "heavy" and out of shape. BA stated, "he added mass at the expense of athleticism. The added strength didn't translate to conditioning."

That disappointment set up Barriera to reset his career in 2024. He did show up in better shape and reports were positive coming out of spring training. He was assigned to Dunedin and made his first start on April 7th. Barriera faced seven hitters before leaving the game with an injury which turned out to be season-ending. In some ways, it should not have been a surprise with his two trips to the IL with arm issues in 2023. Brandon had Tommy John plus an internal brace surgery on April 29th. 2025 will now be Barriera's second chance to make a good second impression.

In 2023, the last meaningful data we have, his fastball averaged around 92-93 mph and hit 96 at times with good movement. His mid-80s slider ranks high on the spin levels at 2500 to 2600 rpm which get him a plus or double-plus grade from Baseball America, grading the fastball as a 55 and the slider as a 65. Those two pitches drive his value but Barriera has also shown a decent change up and a curve. But the fastball and slider accounted for the majority of his pitches thrown in 2023. Barriera is listed at 6'2" and 180 lbs and throws left-handed.

Barriera has had a tough start to his career. He will likely not be ready for opening day in 2025. A typical 13-14 month return from surgery would line him up for his first appearance in May or June. He will probably start with some appearances in extended spring training to make sure his arm is fully recovered. Then he should move up to Dunedin. If all goes well, he could move to Vancouver later in the year. Barriera will turn 21 just before the season starts so he is still young enough. But he needs to show in 2025 that the Jays first-round pick was not a mistake.

24. Ryan Jennings | RHP

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Ryan Jennings was selected by the Jays in the fourth round of the 2022 draft. Jennings was a senior sign, he had completed four years at Louisiana Tech, a top baseball program. Jennings had no leverage and the Jays paid him just $70,000 to sign, $400,000 under slot. The Jays needed to save some money to sign Brandon Barriera and Tucker Toman for over slot money. In that draft the Jays significantly underpaid Jennings, Josh Kasevich (under by $200,000), Alan Roden (under by $125,000) and TJ Brock (under by $200,000). But that's a topic for a different thread.

Jennings turned pro as a 23-year-old in 2022 and threw eight innings for Dunedin. He returned to Dunedin for 2023 and made 10 starts, 12 appearances total. He had a 3.98 ERA but did strike out 55 in 43 innings. That earned him a late-season promotion to Vancouver where he had a 2.70 ERA in three starts.

It was back to Vancouver in 2024 where Jennings made eleven starts. He had an excellent 2.13 ERA with 56 strikeouts in 50.2 innings. At the start of July, Jennings was bumped up to New Hampshire and immediately switched to a bullpen role. Jennings is listed at 6-feet-tall (which sometimes means 5'11") and the Jays might have felt that a bullpen role would be better with that height. Jennings has also battled elbow injuries on several occasions so it would pay to be careful. Despite missing a month on the IL, Jennings made 10 one-inning appearances for New Hampshire, picking up two saves. His ERA was 0.90 as he allowed just five hits in the ten innings. He also struck out 12. He threw 10 more innings in the fall league with similar results. Five hits and four walks mirrored his New Hampshire results. He added two K's though to strike out 14 in his 10 innings.

Jennings' best pitch is his fastball. It sits 94-96 mph with a lot of run and vertical break. He also throws a slider and a curveball. The Jays bullpens in the upper minors are full, so I would expect Jennings to go back to New Hampshire. If he gets to Buffalo to start the season the Jays will put him there to see if he can be major-league ready.

23. Lazaro Estrada | RHP

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Lazaro Estrada is a 24-year-old Cuban. He was signed at age 18 and has pitched in the Blue Jays system since 2018. Estrada was a starting pitcher in 2018 and 2019, lost 2020 to COVID and was injured in both 2021 and 2022, pitching around 20 innings in each of those two seasons. Estrada started 2023 in the Dunedin bullpen but joined the starting ranks in July and stayed there through the end of the season. He finished 2023 with 76 innings pitched, a good comeback from the two previous seasons.

Estrada started 2024 on the IL, not a good sign with his injury history. Estrada is undersized for a pitcher, listed at 5'10". His stay on the IL was brief and he made two rehab starts for Dunedin before joining Vancouver's starting rotation on May 4th. Estrada made nine starts for Vancouver with excellent results. He had a 1.96 ERA and struck out 53 in 41 innings. He was promoted to New Hampshire where he made 11 starts. The results there were more mixed. His ERA was 4.47 and the K rate was just over nine. He had two very good starts and three where he gave up five runs. Estrada finished the year in the Arizona Fall League. He pitched well there, he made one start and three relief appearances. He only gave up five hits in 11.2 innings but three of those hits left the field. He did have 19 Ks in those 11 innings so once again, mixed results. After the season the Jays left Estrada unprotected for the Rule 5 draft but he wasn't selected.

Estrada's fastball averages 91-93 mph and he can touch 94. Because of his size and his drop and drive delivery, the ball comes in with a different shape to most pitchers who are over six feet tall. Estrada also gets a lot of spin on his fastball so they combine to make his pitches more unusual to hitters. He also throws an 82-85 mph slider and a curveball.

Estrada will return to New Hampshire for 2025 and he will be 26 years old in April. The Jays will have to decide at some stage whether they see his future in a starting rotation or in the bullpen so his role for 2025 is undefined right now. There are very few 5'10" starting pitchers in the major leagues so a bullpen role is more likely eventually.

22. RJ Schreck | OF

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RJ Schreck joined the Jays on July 29th. He came from Seattle in the Justin Turner trade. Schreck had been drafted in the ninth round by Seattle in 2023 out of Vanderbilt University. He originally enrolled at Duke and played three years there but switched to Vanderbilt for his senior season. Most baseball players drafted out of college are selected after their third year of college but Schreck was not drafted and went to Vandy for his senior season. Schreck showed an improved approach in his last year of college and was one of Vanderbilt's best hitters. That got him his ninth-round selection and a $75,000 signing bonus.

After the draft, Schreck played 25 games in the California League. He hit .267 with a good eye and a little power. Schreck was assigned to Everett to start 2024. Everett went to Vancouver in early May for a series. Schreck had a hit in four of the six games but the Sunday game was a big game for him. He was 3-4 with a double and a home run. That probably caught the eye of the C's manager and coaches. Vancouver went to Everett in early June and Schreck homered again in one of the games. At the end of that series, Schreck was hitting .228 but his average was up to .254 when Everett rolled into Vancouver for the Canada Day series. Schreck went 8-23, with four doubles and a home run. Three weeks later, he was a Blue Jay.

Seattle had promoted Schreck to AA for eight games before the trade so the Jays sent him to New Hampshire. Schreck had a hit in his first eight games for the Fisher Cats. His August was excellent, a .288 average and 14 of his 23 hits went for extra bases, with eight doubles, a triple and five home runs. He slugged .600 in August. He walked 14 times versus 23 K'. He had just one hit in five games in September but he missed a week so he could have been carrying an injury.

Schreck is a left-handed hitter, standing 6' 1". FanGraphs didn't list Schreck as one of Seattle's top prospects last season but Schreck didn't have outstanding numbers in his first season.

Schreck had a very good 2024 season, showing promise in AA, one of the big jumps in the minor leagues. He profiles as an OK hitter for average but with good extra-base ability. If he can replicate his August hitting, he should shoot up the prospect lists. Given that Schreck has less than two months of experience in AA, and just over one year total, I would expect him to return to New Hampshire for 2025 with a move to Buffalo in mid-season.

21. Adrian Pinto | 2B

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Here’s a glass-half-full take. Adrian Pinto has played 162 regular season games as a professional, the same number of games in an MLB season. Unfortunately, the glass-half-empty take is the Caucagua, Venezuela native needed four years to reach that mark due to multiple lower body injuries (quadriceps and hamstring) according to Baseball America.

A free-agent signing by the Colorado Rockies, health was not an issue for Pinto as he enjoyed a breakthrough rookie season at the Dominican Summer League in 2021. He batted .360/.486/.543 with 22 extra-base hits and 41 stolen bases. That led to winning the MVP Award in the DSL and was added to that league's Post-Season All-Star squad.

Observers were surprised when Colorado decided to include Pinto in a trade that saw outfielder Raimel Tapia go to Toronto in exchange for outfielder Randal Grichuk. Pinto did not have nearly as good a season in his maiden voyage in the Blue Jays in 2022, batting just .242 in 47 games with Low-A Dunedin. However, he did record an on-base percentage of .375 and stole 18 bases in 25 tries. His season ended in June as he was placed on the injured list with a hamstring injury.

Pinto put up better totals in 2023 but they came in just 35 games, with the majority of them coming at Low-A Dunedin. He reached base at a .413 clip and was 12-for-16 in steal attempts but wound up missing the latter part of May and the better part of June due to injury. The injury bug got him again in mid-July and he missed the rest of the season.

2024 began with Pinto on the walking wounded list but he got back on the field with the Florida Complex League Blue Jays in mid-July. After a quick pit stop with Dunedin, Pinto finally escaped Florida with a promotion to High-A Vancouver in early August. C’s fans were treated to an offensive outburst in which he recorded back-to-back-to-back multi-hit games. He set the tone with a triple in his first Northwest League at-bat against Eugene on August 6 and finished a homer shy of the cycle. That homer came on August 10 when he belted a grand slam to turn a three-run deficit into an eventual one-run victory against Eugene.

In the postseason, Pinto was the team MVP by batting .375 in the four-game Northwest League Championship Series, going 3-for-4 with a double and a walk in Vancouver's Game 2 win over Spokane on September 11.

The only negative was Pinto's availability. He was given a day off after his first two games with Monty's Mounties and though he was not placed on the IL, he did not see any action for eight days in late August.

The righthanded-hitting Pinto was assigned to the Arizona Fall League and he had his moments with Scottsdale, including a three-run homer in the Fall Stars Game.

Scouting reports say Pinto is an above-average and patient hitter thanks to good hand-eye coordination and a compact swing. He has above-average speed and range that serves him well at second base. His throwing arm is considered to be fringe-average for shortstop. There is some thought he could handle center field as he made the odd appearance there during the regular season before splitting time at the four and eight spots in the AFL.

Will the Jays—who got away with leaving Pinto unprotected for the Rule 5 Draft—be tempted to bump him up to Double-A New Hampshire or will he get a little more seasoning with Vancouver in 2025? Pinto will turn 23 years old on September 22.

Join us tomorrow for more of the Blue Jays Top 30 prospects.