Baseball America published their top ten prospects today and it looks a lot like the Batters Box top 10.  In addition the BA guys did an AL East podcast yesterday that had some Blue Jay related discussion.

 

There will also be a subscriber chat at 2pm today.  We will add some commentary here.

There were a number of prospects who were named on the Minor League Crew's ballots who didn't make the Top 30 list. And each crew member no doubt considered several more prospects for their personal Top 30s who didn't make the final list.

Here are a few prospects who missed the final list that our minor league correspondents chose to highlight. This list isn't intended as a ranking of the next prospects in order, but is rather a sampling of some intriguing names in the system. Last year's feature included a player who got 111 major league plate appearances this year and a Webster Award winner. Without further ado, here are some prospects to keep an eye on next year, presented in alphabetical order.

Welcome to the creme de la creme, the number one through ten prospects.  In case you missed it number 11 through 20 are here, and number 21 to 30 are here.

We hope you enjoyed this top 30 and the hope it brings to the future of the Blue Jays organization.   Check back tomorrow for a few who missed the top 30.

Today we look at the prospects rated 20 though 11. For prospects 30-21, click here.

Welcome to the Batters Box top 30 Blue Jay prospects for 2012. Six of your trusted minor league correspondents pooled their votes to come up with the list. The same trusty six shared the task of writing the prospect descriptions you see below.

The system has seen a lot of movement since 2011.  Anthony Gose, Drew Hutchison, David Cooper, Luis Perez and Moises Sierra are no longer rookies.  Nestor Molina, Carlos Perez, Asher Wojciechowski, Kevin Comer and  Joe Musgrove were traded.  That is ten prospects who are off the list before players who dropped because of poor performance.

In total, forty-five prospects received at least one vote.  Nineteen of the top thirty were named on all six ballots.  There can be plenty of debate as to who should have made it, particularly here, in the bottom 10.  We hope the wisdom of our crowd has delivered a great top thirty.

As usual we have split the top 30 into three installments, running Monday through Wednesday. On Thursday we will look at some prospects that did not make the list but are favourites of one of our writers.

We hope you enjoy the list and the discussion.

Baseball America has begun listing the top 20 prospects from each minor league.  The Arizona Rookie League was yesterday and today we see two Blue Jays in the GCL top 20.  BA will also have a chat following each list.  This thread will list all the Blue Jays making the lists over the next couple of weeks.

	GCL	Appy	NW	MidWest	FSL	EL	PCL
	#3 - DJ Davis, CF #12 - Alberto Tirado, RHP	#8 - Roberto Osuna, rhp #10 - Santiago Nessy, c #14 - Daniel Norris, lhp	#20 - Taylor Cole, rhp	#5 - Noah Syndergaard, rhp #6 - Aaron Sanchez, rhp #11 - Justin Nicolino, lhp	#11 - Jake Marisnick, CF	#9 - Jake Marisnick, CF	#2 - Travis d'Arnaud, CA #8 - Anthony Gose, CF #14 - Adeiny Hechavarria, SS
Webster Awards	Alberto Tirado, RHP	Christian Lopes, 2B/SS	Javier Avendano, RHP	Justin Nicolino, LHP	Daniel Barnes, RHP	Ryan Goins, SS/2B	Adeiny Hechavarria, SS

The new Triple-A affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays is the Buffalo Bisons.  The Buffalo News reports that the two sides have signed off on a two-year Player Development Contract for the 2013 and 2014 seasons.

Buster T. Bison and his ball club welcome Toronto with open arms, marking the return of the Blue Jays Triple-A affiliate to the International League after a four-year absence.

The Buffalo News is reporting the International League's Buffalo Bisons are talking to the Jays about becoming its new Triple-A affiliate in 2013.  Sunday marked the first day that major league and minor league teams could hold discussions about new Player Development Contracts.

The Blue Jays could have its Triple-A prospects playing at Coca-Cola Field in Buffalo for at least the next two seasons if they reach an affiliation agreement with the Bisons this week.

The Canadians spit the bit on Saturday but Roberto Osuna sparkled.

Six run lead? Safe? don't count on it. that's good news out west, not so good closer to home.

The Dunedin Blue Jays were eliminated from the playoffs with their second consecutive loss to Lakeland. Meanwhile, Lansing suffered a loss in their playoff opener and now must win two in a row to stay alive. The Canadians had an off day before beginning their next playoff series.

The Vancouver Canadians have made it to the final of the Northwest League playoffs thanks to an all hands win over Everett.   Meanwhile the Blue Jays offense is so bad that even JP Arencibia and David Cooper couldn't prevent the Dunedin Jays from being shut out. Marcus Walden made one mistake and that was enough to take the loss. The D-Jays had several chances but couldn't deliver a key hit.

The playoffs have begun on one front while the regular season wrapped up on three others.



The Vancouver Canadians celebrate their playoff opening victory against Everett at Nat Bailey Stadium Monday afternoon.

Only one affiliate found the win column in four tries on Sunday.

The affiliates went 2-3 on the last Saturday of the regular season.