Around the Nest 2021 Week 3: The One About Some Prospects

Around The Nest, the Blue Jays minor league podcast, returns again this week to talk about Blue Jays prospects and the affiliates they play for. As always, this episode is hosted by the Voice of the Vancouver Canadians Tyler Zickel, who is joined by the New Hampshire Fisher Cats’ broadcaster Tyler Murray and the Buffalo Bisons / Trenton Thunder’s Gregg Caserta, who joins the broadcast from his car driving back home from a rainout.

Episode Topics

Tyler Murray on the New Hampshire Fisher Cats (Double-A)

• Fisher Cats are still a team loaded with prospects but are unfortunately 8-13 but they are just finally getting back to health with Austin Martin, Jordan Groshans, Otto Lopez, and Gabriel Moreno, and LJ Talley leading their lineup
• On Thursday, they played a doubleheader that featured an 11-inning game that was the longest of the season followed by a seven-inning game that was the shortest
• Jordan Groshans is back after not playing for a week as a precaution for a hamstring discomfort
• An introduction to new Fisher Cats road broadcaster Joe Weil
• Returning to normalcy: Fisher Cats looking forward to having a full house

Tyler Zickel on the Dunedin Blue Jays (Low-A)

• Tough schedule having had to face the powerhouse Tampa Tarpons a lot in the first month of the season
• Orelvis Martinez is a fun follow

Gregg Caserta on the Buffalo Bisons / Trenton Thunder (Triple-A)

• A tough series against the WooSox
• Jacob Waguespack looked phenomenal
• Nate Pearson had a tough outing
• Positives and negatives of the new six-game series format in the minors
• T.J. Zeuch needs to be angrier
• A Nash Bash: our favourite Blue Jays minor leaguer Nash Knight goes yard

Tyler Zickel on the Vancouver Canadians (High-A)

• Vancouver had a walkoff win on Thursday night
• Canadians having their biggest test yet in facing the heavyweight Everett, unfortunately giving the AquaSox extra chances
• Advanced-A leader in walks (125), fifth in all of MiLB
• Garden of Eden: Cameron Eden continues to ball on the field and in the lockerroom
• Recent promotions, reinstatements, transfers and more
• Adam Kloffenstein, CJ Van Eyk have been having up and down seasons so far

Roundtable

• Next Blue Jays prospect who could make an impact in the major leagues
• One word to describe each affiliate

Bonus: Outtake

Gregg Caserta was driving and his connection was tenuous. Here is a segment where it sounded like we may have lost Gregg to aliens.