Top 20 Blue Jay Prospects

by achengy on Oct 12, 2007 4:12 PM EDT in Toronto Blue Jays News

The top 20 prospect list is always based on opinions. I am just a 19-year old kid and if you really think about these top 20 prospects list aren't that useful but they're fun!

I'll try to share some of my insight but most of the time people are going to have different opinions. Feel free to share away.

Here is my updated top 20 Blue Jay Prospect List:

Travis Snider OF (Lansing Lugnuts)
Brett Cecil LHP (Auburn Doubledays)
Curtis Thigpen C (MLB/Syracuse Chiefs)
Robinzon Diaz C (Syracuse Chiefs)
Yohermyn Chavez OF (GCL Jays)
Jonathan (JP) Arencibia C (Auburn Doubledays)
Ricky Romero LHP (New Hamshire FisherCats)
Kevin Ahrens SS/3B (GCL Jays)
Kyle Ginley RHP (Lansing Lugnuts)
John Tolisano 2B (GCL Jays)
Marc Rzepczynski, LHP (Auburn DoubleDays)
David Purcey LHP (New Hampshire Fisher Cats)
Josh Banks RHP (MLB/Syracuse Chiefs)
Chi-Hung Cheng LHP (GCL/Auburn)
Adrian Martin RHP (Dunedin Jays)
Eric Eiland OF (GCL Jays)
Justin Jackson SS (GCL Jays)
Balbino Fuenmayor 3B (GCL Jays)
Ryan Patterson OF (New Hampshire Fishercats)
Brandon Magee RHP (Dunedin Jays)

Honorable Mention: Josh Kreuzer, Nate Starner, AJ Wideman, Kyle Yates, Aaron Mathews, Bradley Mills, Jonathan Del Campo and David Smith

Some thoughts:
This list is filled with new faces specifically from the 2007 draft. Cecil and The "Zep" are the two big lefty pitchers that we seem to keep drafting. Hopefully for them they don't hit the dreaded AA wall faced by our former top prospects.

As great as it that we have some promising players in the GCL Jays. Just remember the young guns as a whole struggled. Balbino Fuenmayor has fallen from grace but others struggled just as much but are receiving recognition for their tools.

I find that our system is very weak at the moment. We have a lot of unproven talent. Cecil and Snider look like studs but the rest have a lot of question marks going forward. We also don't have a lot of talent in the upper levels of our system.

What do you think?

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Pretty Good

It's hard to rate prospects in a particular order that is "right" but this is close to being exactly what I'd pick.

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by Rios39 on Oct 12, 2007 8:28 PM EDT reply actions

the new class

all started slow, but Tolisano and Ahrens turned it on towards the end. Tolisano is intriguing as a 2nd baseman with a nice switch-hitting bat and some flash in the field, and Jackson looks at worst like our usual starting SS (glove, no bat) with upside for much more. Eiland is a nice changeup for us, and Cecil has been fantastic so far. Arebencia's back makes him a little dicey, but if he can improve his footwork he has the arm and more than the bat for the catcher position, and if one of our other catching prospects makes it first, his bat will play at 1st or the OF or DH. I'm very pleased with the class, and there are a few sleepers in there too like Joel Collins. You can't expect all the hitters to come out of the box like Snider did last season, he was regarded as an extremely mature hitter for his age.

"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman

by hugo on Oct 13, 2007 8:27 AM EDT reply actions

great job with the list by the way

I don't know that I'd make any changes. Out of all these fellas, the guys we can expect to see in 2008 are Thigpen, Banks, and some relievers who didn't make the list, like Gronkeweicz and De Jong. I also believe we'll see Purcey in the fall. Of course, you never know who is going to step up and exceed all expectations (like Wolfe and Litsch did this season).

"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman

by hugo on Oct 13, 2007 8:30 AM EDT reply actions