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Buffalo and Vancouver both scored nine runs, the FCL Jays scored ten. Lots of their hitters had lots of hits and between them had three wins. New Hampshire and Dunedin's bats were cold and both lost.

Buffalo 9 Rochester 6

New Hampshire 1 Portland 7

Vancouver 9 Everett 2

Dunedin 0 Lakeland 4

FCL Blue Jays 10 FCL Tigers 4


Three Stars

Third Star - Joey Loperfido

Second Star - Enmanuel Bonilla

First Star - Eddie Micheletti Jr


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NOTES


Buffalo scored nine runs on 14 hits with contributions all over the diamond. Eight of the starters had a hit with six of them having two. Seven hitters picked up an RBI. Joey Loperfido and Phil Clarke had two RBI each.


This was a bullpen game, Mason Fluharty was back in town. Jonatan Clase was also in the lineup, Alan Roden had the night off.


Kendry Rojas cruised through four innings in his AA debut. He ran into trouble in the fifth, the bullpen added to the misery, and NH scored their only run in the ninth. That run came from a Peyton Williams home run. The Fisher Cats had just five hits.


Through four innings Rojas had given up two hits with four K's. But in the fifth a hit and a walk had two on with two outs. Another hit scored two runs and then the bullpen came on and gave up another leaving three runs on Rojas's record. All in all it was an encouraging start.


Vancouver, like Buffalo, had eight hitters who picked up a hit. They had four hitters with a multi hit game. Eddie Micheletti went 3-4 and was a triple short of the cycle. Hayden Gilliland hit his first home run of the season and added a double.


Fernando Perez had a little problem with his command. He walked four in 4.2 innings. He struck out five but only gave up one hit, a home run.


Dunedin had only two hits, both by Sam Shaw. Colby Holcombe wasn't great, three runs allowed in 3.2 innings.


The FCL Jays hit four home runs. One of them was from Enmanuel Bonilla who was a triple shy of the cycle. It was Bonilla's best game of the season and his first home run since June 2nd. Yorman Licourt also homered and doubled. Edrick Felix and Aldo Gaxiola hit their first homers of the season.


Troy Guthrie started and pitched five innings. He gave up a pair of runs but had just one K.


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metafour - Saturday, July 05 2025 @ 08:07 PM EDT (#463117) #
The Jays' top IFA signee from the most recent class (Cristopher Polanco) has been absolutely terrible, however, their second biggest ticket signee 3B/SS Juan Sanchez is now hitting .315/.425/.506 with 4 HR's. He is listed at 6'3 180lbs.

On Cristopher Polanco: the Jays keep chasing this "he's not very big or twitchy and has average physical tools, but he's a very advanced hitter for his age" prototype with their top IFA signees, and the results have been horrible. I think they need to consider pivoting to an approach that prioritizes pure physical tools/traits and bank on developing those hitters. The guys they have signed with "advanced feel for hitting" have seemingly all shown up with zero ability to hit. Given that these kids are being committed to at age 14 or 15 to sign at 16, I'm getting the impression that how advanced they look at the plate at 14/15 doesn't seem to translate over very well by the time they turn 17 and actually start playing pro ball.
Glevin - Saturday, July 05 2025 @ 08:23 PM EDT (#463119) #
I think IFA is just hard. They often commit to guys when they are 14 or 15. I mean, Polanco seemed like a high floor guy but Bonilla seemed like a high ceiling guy and both have flopped so far. I look back at the 2020 IFA class and Chourio has been easily the best player and he was ranked 18th. Top bonuses haven't panned out. I look at 2016 and the guys who made it big had the 16th biggest bonus (Yordan Alvarez) and 25th biggest bonus (Arozarena).

McAdoo absolutely on fire. Another HR tonight.
John Northey - Sunday, July 06 2025 @ 02:38 AM EDT (#463135) #
IFA's are damn hard to predict. Today one debuted in the majors for the Jays who they signed in 2018. In 2016 they signed Kirk & Moreno. All 3 of those guys combined were signed for a net bonus under $100k. Vlad was $3 mil.

To get an idea of how tough it is look at the 2018 top 30 prospects list. #1 has a 520 OPS in the minors this year, Yennier Cano was #2 (a solid reliever), #3 has a sub 400 OPS in the minors this year, Orelvis was #7, at #10 we have a success in Noelvi Marte (3B/SS for the Reds hitting 274/333/479). Look at any year and it is rare #1 actually was great. Vlad was #7 in 2015 - only 3 of the 6 ranked higher made the majors so far and none did anything of note. Next to do anything from the class of 2015 is Andrés Giménez at #19 and now at 2B here. The big gun is Juan Soto at #25 and Fernando Tatis Jr. at #30. If only the Jays could've signed all 3 of Vlad/Soto/Tatis...sigh but IFA caps would've prevented that I suspect (they had to trade for extra space to sign Vlad IIRC).
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