2025 Bluebird Banter Top 40 Blue Jays Prospects: 33-36

Dunedin, FL—The latest quartet in Bluebird Banter’s annual countdown spotlights four very different arms, each finishing 2025 at a different minor-league rung and each carrying a unique set of questions into the off-season.

No. 36 – RHP Cam Jennings Toronto’s 2022 fourth-rounder out of Louisiana Tech has already lived several baseball lifetimes. A draft-year shift to the bullpen juiced his fastball to 99 mph, but injuries over the next two seasons sapped velocity and consistency. Jennings still owns a starter’s repertoire—gyro-slider in the mid-80s, low-80s power curve, and a change-up he shelved after moving back to relief—but the 2025 returns were sobering: 43 walks and eight hit-batsmen in 58 innings while sitting only in the mid-90s. The swing-and-miss remains; the command does not. Another season like this and his big-league runway could disappear.

No. 35 – RHP Jean Batista Acquired from Boston as part of the Danny Jansen swap, Batista spent 2025 as a 21-year-old swingman between Dunedin and Vancouver. The line—4.96 ERA, 15 homers allowed—looks pedestrian, yet 83 strikeouts against 26 walks hint at better days. His 92-94 mph heater and flashing-plus change-up keep hitters honest; the 85-87 slider still comes and goes. Unless the secondaries tighten, the path forward likely leads to the bullpen, but the raw ingredients remain intriguing.

No. 34 – LHP Grant Coleman An undrafted senior sign out of LSU, Coleman blitzed through the system in his debut summer. After fanning 36% of hitters in Dunedin, he moved to High-A Vancouver and upped the rate to 40% while trimming the walks and posting a 1.40 ERA as the Canadians’ late-inning anchor. The low-slot lefty now sits mid-90s with ride, and his frisbee slider and change-up play up thanks to a tough angle. Several solid spring-training outings later, a 2026 major-league debut feels plausible.

No. 33 – RHP Seth Rogers The 11th-rounder from McNeese State has been a volume monster: nearly 50 starts and 250 innings across three levels since 2023. Rogers pounds the zone with a heavy low-90s two-seamer and mixes three breaking variations—slider, curve, cutter—more for deception than whiffs. The profile is old-school ground-ball ballast, but spring looks against advanced hitters exposed the margins. If the craftiness translates, he could become an innings-soaking back-end starter; if not, the modern game may leave him behind.

Together, the foursome illustrates the breadth of Toronto’s pitching depth—power arms trying to find the zone, polish pitchers trying to find swing-and-miss, and a crafty lefty who may have already found both.