One win, one loss and one snowout? That is how the affiliates fared on Opening Day in the minors.

The Blue Jays wrap up their first road trip of 2015 with three games against the defending AL East champion Baltimore Orioles. The O's and Jays are tied with Boston for top spot in the standings with 2-1 records.


Miguel Castro — pitching here for the Vancouver Canadians against Everett July 11 of last year — picked up his first Major League save in Thursday's 6-3 victory over New York at Yankee Stadium. The 20 year-old has pitched three perfect innings over three appearances with two strikeouts and zero walks.

The minor league season starts on Thursday and the rosters were announced yesterday. As the season begins what should you look for with each team? Below I explain what I will be watching over the next couple of months. After that I tell you why you should buy the 2015 Toronto Blue Jays minor league handbook.

The pitching match-ups for this three-game series.

Monday at 1:05pm ET — Drew Hutchison vs. Masahiro Tanaka
Tuesday - Day Off
Wednesday at 7:05 pm ET — R.A. Dickey vs. Michael Pineda
Thursday at 7:05 pm ET — Daniel Norris vs. C.C. Sabathia

New uniform numbers this season — Justin Smoak has #14, Josh Donaldson will don #20 (SWIDT!), Danny Valencia is now #23, Marco Estrada will wear #25, Devon Travis has #29, Colt Hynes wears #49, Miguel Castro has #51 and Roberto Osuna is going with #54. Russ Martin has #55 and Michael Saunders, who wore #55 in Seattle, will get #21 when he gets off the disabled list, sometime in late April.

After the jump, the Batter's Box 2015 Roundtable Preview!

Today is the day that minor league rosters get announced. As I noted last week the Jays have locked down their process for releasing their minor league rosters after complaints from their affiliates. However all teams are headed to their respective cities and the rosters will get announced today. I will get a copy of all rosters but not until the teams have announced. I think the Jays have also asked their players not to tweet about their destinations as I have seen only a couple of definite roster tweets, namely Casey Lawrence headed to New Hampshire and Chase De Jong to Lansing.

Now things get much more difficult...

It's always weird to see Olympic Stadium full of people...

The rosters for the full season minor league teams will be set this weekend. As the Jays put the various pieces in place there are several questions that are creating uncertainty for those rosters.

The 25 man is now almost set.  8 man pen and Travis at 2B with Pompey & Pillar in the outfield.  Drew Hutchison opening day starter.

Ladies and gentlemen, our tour of the National League is reaching the last stop. Please check to make sure you have all your belongings and have your transfers ready...

9 games in Florida left plus 2 in Montreal vs the Reds.  So what do we know at this point? 

I gotta stop posting these things before they're finished...

A quick and dirty look at some of the other divisions around baseball...

Here is a quick look at the latest happenings on the farm, Blue Jays style!

The Jays have 14 games left in their grapefruit league schedule. Then it is two games in Montreal before they head to New York. The games so far in spring are less meaningful than the next two weeks. Starting pitchers have been pitching two, three or four innings and a lot of innings have been thrown by minor leaguers. But over the upcoming two weeks the starters will be going five, six or seven innings and most reliever innings will be thrown by major leaguers or almost major leaguers.