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Four Blue Jays in Baseball America's Top 100 Prospects

Baseball America has 4 Blue Jays on their top 100 prospects list. They are:

17. Travis d'Arnaud.

Brother Chase beat him to the big leagues, but Travis' ceiling is higher.

39. Anthony Gose.

Physical dead-ringer for Nyjer Morgan has bigger tools than T-Plush.

67. Jake Marisnick.

Scouts doubted his bat as an amateur, but he's putting those doubts to rest.

91. Daniel Norris.

Toronto has tremendous pitching depth, and even though power lefty Norris hasn't debuted yet he still tops the list.

If you are wondering about the other AL East teams, the Yankees have 4 on the list, the Red Sox 3, the Rays 4 (including #2 Matt Moore) and the Orioles 3.

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Nyjer's crazy tool is kray kray krazee!

In honor of the Jays 2nd Baseman who played with fire in more ways than one.

by Damaso's Burnt Shirt on Feb 21, 2012 11:50 AM EST up reply actions  

Crazy and a two-time 4.0+ fWAR player.

"We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct."
- Niels Bohr

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by Frag on Feb 21, 2012 11:51 AM EST up reply actions  

Haven't gone over it in-depth

But at first glance, I think it’s one of the lists I like the most from this offseason (that doesn’t have anything to do with ultimately being right of course). They tend to go on upside, so I was fully expecting Norris as the highest pitcher. Putting Norris and Guerreri back to back showed some solid internal consistency

by MjwW on Feb 21, 2012 12:12 PM EST reply actions  

I am so excited about our minor league system. I hope we see D’arnaud and Gose later this season

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by kudzupo on Feb 21, 2012 12:26 PM EST reply actions  

what about Drew Stubbs for a Gose comp?

strikes out too much but walks quite a bit

fast

good power for an up-the-middle position (except 2011)

only real difference is he got to the Majors much later, and we’d hope Gose’s defense is a little better (Stubbs is a +1 to +3 run/season CFer)

by benk on Feb 21, 2012 12:39 PM EST reply actions  

I did an upside (not absolute ceiling), middle, and floor comparisons for Gose

Upside: Devon White
Middle: Drew Stubbs/Austin Jackson
Floor: Carlos Gomez

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by Frag on Feb 21, 2012 12:48 PM EST up reply actions  

makes sense

Gose probably has more power than Jackson in MLB if his AA power was for real though.

by benk on Feb 21, 2012 12:50 PM EST up reply actions  

Good comps

I’ve used Dewayne Wise as the floor, but Gomez is a player in the same mold

by MjwW on Feb 21, 2012 1:07 PM EST up reply actions  

Chris Carpenter to the Sox as compensation for Epstein

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by LeafFan1989 on Feb 21, 2012 12:43 PM EST reply actions  

A hundred days of haggling for Carpenter and a PTBNL?

by dexfarkin on Feb 21, 2012 1:04 PM EST up reply actions  

He was a pretty good pitcher for the Cards

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by Frag on Feb 21, 2012 1:17 PM EST up reply actions  

Don’t laugh. There’s already been angry Cards fans calling into radio shows demanding to have it explained to them.

by dexfarkin on Feb 21, 2012 6:15 PM EST up reply actions  

Which radio station?

Sounds like it would bring the LOLs.

by Siver on Feb 22, 2012 10:17 AM EST up reply actions  

Was really good in the AFL

I remember flagging his name to keep track of. Should be a decent or better reliever, but yeah, seems like much ado about very little

by MjwW on Feb 21, 2012 1:49 PM EST up reply actions  

Yes, but it’s like saying that you need three months to really get your head around the value of Joel Carreno against the GM you really desperately want.

by dexfarkin on Feb 21, 2012 6:14 PM EST up reply actions  

Well that took forever to complete

Toronto Sports Fan= Waiting, waiting, waiting.............then more waiting

by noname3 on Feb 21, 2012 1:50 PM EST up reply actions  

speculation is

they were waiting for the 60 day DL to start.

by ABsteve on Feb 21, 2012 1:57 PM EST up reply actions  

They had someone from Baseball America talking the list on XM this morning

He said if things play out right this season, the Jays farm will look as good or better than KC’s a couple of years ago.

by ABsteve on Feb 21, 2012 1:02 PM EST reply actions  

Yep

WIthout an ounce of homerism, my feeling is the Jays have a great shot at being #1 at the end of the season. I’d put them as the favourite, but snce so much can happen, if betting I’d easily take the field

by MjwW on Feb 21, 2012 1:06 PM EST up reply actions  

I can see the Jays farm by season's end being massively strong

Up to 5 1st round + supp picks added to already great system. Plus I see few graduations this year as opposed to last. Amazing how good the farm remains despite graduating Lawrie, Alvarez, JPA, Thames and Drabek this past season

by JayTeam on Feb 21, 2012 2:07 PM EST up reply actions  

Weird

Travis d’Arnaud isn’t expected to be in the majors till next year yet is 1 year younger than Travis Snider. Doesn’t it seem like Snider is about 32 how long he’s been discussed?

by craig in calgary on Feb 21, 2012 8:35 PM EST reply actions  

It's because they rushed Snider

And now they want to unrush future people to compensate.

by Mike Andrew on Feb 21, 2012 9:33 PM EST up reply actions  

Yep

Or at least not rush them

by MjwW on Feb 21, 2012 9:38 PM EST up reply actions  

Yeah I was trying to make it a joke (not funny:( )

“not rush them” is a much more accurate way to put it. We saw this with Lawrie and will see this with D’Arnaud.

by Mike Andrew on Feb 21, 2012 11:07 PM EST up reply actions  

Who knows

maybe he faked his age.

His 2011 wRC+ is 26

by Pikachu on Feb 21, 2012 9:48 PM EST up reply actions  

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