Anoiher losing Tuesday on the farm, this is a recording. Buffalo and Dunedin were embarrassed and the FCL Jays lost by a run. The only winners were Vancouver and the DSL Blue squad. New Hampshire and the DSL Red squad were rained out.


Victoria, BC native Sam Shaw had plenty of reason to smile after a perfect night at the plate on Tuesday.

The MLB draft begins on this Saturday and concludes on Sunday. The Jays do not have a good position heading into the draft. Their first pick drops by ten positions because the Jays payroll last season exceeded the second threshold of the competitive balance tax. And the Jays lose their second round pick because they signed Dylan Cease (I believe). Finally the Jays do not get a compensation pick for Bo Bichette because they signed Cease.

The Jays limp into San Francisco after Seattle manhandled them over the last two games. They do have a chance at redemption as the Giants are worse than the Jays. The Giants record is 37-52, 21 games out of first place in their division. The Jays are at 42-48, they would have to go 6-0 to reach the all-star break at .500.

Jake Bloss faced the same team for the second time this week and improved from giving up eleven runs to just one. Buffalo won behind him. New Hampshire took an early lead and made it stick. It was Johnny King day in Vancouver and his eight strikeouts and a Sam Shaw home run were enough for the win. Dunedin trailed into the ninth inning when new legend Giaconino Lasaracina turned a loss into a win. In total four wins!

Dunedin and the FCL Jays won, the top three affiliates lost. It was a quieter night on the farm, no starting pitcher went more than four innings and only one hitter had more than two hits. That one guy with three hits was Giaconino Lasaracina who also homered.

Buffalo scored 16 runs yesterday, today it was New Hampshire who scored twelve runs with 18 hits. Vancouver split a doubleheader, Dunedin won in extra innings. Buffalo and the FCL Jays lost.

The Jays roll into Seattle to play the Mariners for the first time since last October. You remember that series, the one where the road team won every game? Vlad was the series MVP and Jeff Hoffman saved the final game. Cal Raleigh hit four home runs in that series. Now, eight months later Vlad is in the dumps, Hoffman has lost his job and Raleigh is hitting .163. We have seen numerous "what's wrong with Vlad?" stories here in Toronto. Change the name to Cal and you know what's in the Seattle Newspapers.

Despite Raleigh's struggles the Mariners are tied in first place in the west but they are just two games over .500.

Buffalo scored sixteen runs to register the only win on the farm. New Hampshire, Dunedin and the FCL Jays were soundly beaten. Vancouver were rained out.

Eugene had a 12 run inning against Vancouver. At one stage ten hitters in a row reached base. It was the only loss of the night as Buffalo, New Hampshire and Dunedin won. New Hampshire also had a tough pitchers game, conceding 10 runs but they scored enough for the win. Buffalo and Dunedin has excellent pitching for their wins.

Jay Harry has received plenty of note in these reports this season as he has ascended to AAA. But he still has not cracked BA's top 30 prospect list. Why would that be? Well the more obvious answer is that he swings at everything. His walk rate this season is 4.8% and his K rate is 22.4%. That ratio is not one that is a sign of future major league success. His O swing% is 48%, meaning he swings at 48% of pitches out of the strike zone and TJ stats has his max exit velocity at the 25th percentile.

Now on the more positive side he has improved his walk rate in AAA, from 3.9% in AA to 7%. And he has reduced his K rate from 23.5% to 19.7%. Lets see how those numbers change over the next few months. Will pitchers start throwing him more balls and will Harry continue his improvement?

Today will be Bo all the time as he returns to Toronto. It might take some attention away from how bad the weekend was for the Jays. The Mets record is four games worse than the Jays and they sacked their manager last week. IN the long list of the things that have gone bad for the Jays this year John Schneider is on there but well down the list. However the 2025 playoff shine will start to diminish through the second half of the season.

Three wins for the affiliates and the only loss, in Dunedin, came in extra innings. Vancouver had a no hitter through seven innings, an improbable one. Buffalo led 8-0 early while New Hampshire had to come from behind.

Jay Harry had another big game for Buffalo. Buffalo scored six runs in the eleventh inning to win in Iowa. New Hampshire split a doubleheader. That was it for the winning. Hits were lacking in a couple of games. New Hampshire had just one hit in their loss while Dunedin had more errors than hits as they also lost.

Hillsboro 7 Vancouver 4

New Hampshire Somerset Postponed Rain

Tampa 6 Dunedin 2

Iowa 12 Buffalo 1

After four bad losses on Wednesday, the affiliates rebounded for five wins on Thursday. Buffalo scored fifteen runs. New Hampshire only scored two but Gage Stanifer dominated so that was enough. Dunedin also had a big offensive game scoring 12 runs.