Four Blue Jays in Baseball America's Top 100 Prospects

by Tom Dakers on Feb 21, 2012 11:24 AM EST in Toronto Blue Jays News

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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And yet

Nyjer Morgan is the bigger tool.

by siggian on Feb 21, 2012 11:48 AM EST reply actions 3 recs

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.

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

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)

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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.

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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

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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