The Buffalo Bisons start their season this afternoon, at home. March baseball in Northern New York, yummy!

The Bisons are the only minor league affiliate in action this weekend so I will update this thread over the weekend with a summary.

Now that the top 30 is done, lets talk about some other guys in the system. We will start with the players who dropped off the 2023 list.

On to the top 10.

The middle 10 of our top 30 prospects is a real mix of players, from newly drafted pitchers to several players in AAA.

Welcome to the Blue Jays top 30 list for another year. It was a quiet year on the farm which is not always a good thing. Among the prospects, just one member of last year's top 30 was traded, that being Sem Robberse. Just one graduated, Davis Schneider. That leaves 28 players from last year's list and 18 of them are repeating on this list, which leaves room for twelve new prospects. As usual, there is always significant debate around the names on this list. While most of the top 20 would be on every top 30 list, there are a host of candidates for the bottom part of the list. Some are hanging on based on draft positioning or hopes of finding again the spark that made them stand out a few years ago. Then, on the other hand, are those who have had a good year in the lower minors where there are questions regarding their ability to repeat that at higher levels. Speaking of looking at previous years performances....

Fangraphs has published the Jays top 31 prospects. You can read it here.

BA published their top 10 prospects today. As expected Ricky Tiedemann tops the list.

It is the quiet season, particularly for the minor leagues. Your minor league team has started to look at the top 30 list to be published in January and as usual there is great uncertainty at the bottom of the list. So I thought it would be fun to throw out some names that could be on the list, or were on the list last season, to see if there is a box consensus.

The AFL started on Monday with several Blue Jays involved. Damiano Palmegiani had an excellent first game. Ricky Tiedemann is pitching tonight.

The minor league season ended Sunday with a nice 11-6 win for Buffalo. The Bisons hitters had ten hits and continued a trend of good hitting to end the season. The pitching however struggled over the finish line.

The pitching was poor for Buffalo on the second last day of their season. Norfolk had 16 hits including four home runs. The Buffalo hitters picked up ten hits with just one home run.

The Buffalo hitters racked up 12 more hits en route to a win. Ricky Tiedemann wasn't at his best but still kept Norfolk relatively silent through four innings.

Buffalo took a 7-1 lead but had to hang on for a one run win. The Bisons had 15 hits, four for Ernie Clement.

The Bisons had an early lead but could not hold on.

Buffalo took the lead against Scranton four times but still lost in 12 innings. It was not a good day for their bullpen. It wasn't great for the hitters either who struck out 20 times. New Hampshire could only get three hits in their final game of the season. They ended their season with a whimper.