My Jays top 5 prospects

anyone not having Snider as #1, unless they didn’t think he was eligible because he finished the season with the Jays. Arencibia is a great prospect and he has helped his stock with a solid AFL performance. I’d still rank Cecil higher, just by a smidge, because Arencibia still hasn’t learned to take a walk, at all, and I do think that’s a non-trivial thing. There is plenty of precedent for highly touted prospects who didn’t walk and never quite made it. On Arencibia’s side, 1) he’s still very young and there’s plenty of time to improve, 2) catchers don’t need great power and great discipline so just a small advance in plate discipline will arguably make him a perennial all-star with his other skills, and 3) catchers tend do develop offensively a bit late. In Cecil’s case, the numbers suggest he’s good enough to pitch in the majors now, he just needs to add durability to be a starter in the bigs, and that’s probably a safer bet than Arencibia developing more plate discipline.