Buffalo Bisons get the minor league season started this afternoon. New Hampshire, Vancouver and Dunedin start a week from tonight. The Florida Complex League starts in May.

Blue Jays Announce 2025 Canadians Coaching Staff

Jose Mayorga takes over as third manager of High-A era, leads group of new arrivals on Ontario Street

Brent Lavallee named manager of the double-A New Hampshire Fisher Cats

Baseball America recently added its 31-40 rankings to round out the top 40 prospects in the Toronto Blue Jays minor league system, rated 23rd in MLB. That's up one spot from 2024.

Dunedin Blue Jays Schedule for 2025

Niall O’Donohoe C’s Plus Baseball and Gerry McDonald Batters Box talking Vancouver Canadians Baseball, Season Four Episode 24

In this thread, we will talk about some of the players who missed out on the Top 30 as well as some more background on the ins and outs of the Top 30. One player from last year's list was traded, Yosver Zulueta. Three others graduated, Addison Barger, Leo Jiménez and Spencer Horwitz.

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 is the 21st edition of the Top 30, we are all grown up. It was a tough year on the farm with pitchers undergoing Tommy John surgery being the top story.

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.

Season Four Episode 9 Vancouver Canadians Manager Brent Lavallee and Gerry McDonald from Batters Box join us.

In this episode Vancouver Canadians Manager Brent Lavallee joins us with Gerry McDonald from Batters Box to discuss Arizona Fall League play of Toronto Blue Jays prospects Adrian Pinto, and Peyton Williams amongst others. The start time is 12 EST/9amPST.

Great stuff here and a cut and paste from a subscriber article about Adrian Pinto from Baseball Prospectus. Worth the 6.99!

The Vancouver Canadians have shared their 2025 schedule, with the first home game scheduled for Tuesday, April 15th, 2025 against the Spokane Chiefs, their rival from the 2024 season and the NWL Playoffs.

Another minor league season comes to an end. It has not been one that will be remembered fondly. Only Vancouver made the playoffs. The other teams were lackluster and it required an injection of new faces at the trade deadline to create some interest in the last two months. Pitchers were falling like flies with most of the best pitching prospects needing Tommy John surgery. The best hitting prospect coming into the season missed time with a drugs ban. And yet the players who did get the call to the major league generally performed decently. And that is the minor leagues, the win/loss record doesn't matter, can you get one or two players a year to become part of your major league team? Fittingly Buffalo lost their last game.

Another loss for Buffalo but at least they scored five runs. Trenton Wallace could not escape the first inning. Josh Kasevich homered, again. Scranton hit four home runs, two by former Yankee Oswaldo Peraza.