The Toronto Blue Jays are reportedly selling the No. 1 prospect of their group, shortstop JoJo Parker, to Excessive-A Vancouver.
MLB.com’s Keegan Matheson wrote on X: “#BlueJays No. 1 prospect JoJo Parker is being promoted to Excessive-A Vancouver, per supply. His twentieth birthday is right now and he’s been pink scorching recently. The group is extraordinarily excessive on him, and he simply retains giving them causes to be.”
Toronto Blue Jays Reportedly Selling No. 1 Prospect JoJo Parker to Excessive-A Vancouver Throughout Philadelphia Phillies Sequence
GettyTORONTO, CANADA – SEPTEMBER 13: Toronto Blue Jays prospect Jojo Parker warms up with the workforce forward of their MLB recreation towards the Baltimore Orioles at Rogers Centre on September 13, 2025 in Toronto, Canada. (Photograph by Cole Burston/Getty Photos)
JoJo Parker is Toronto’s No. 1 total prospect and MLB’s No. 29, in accordance with MLB Pipeline.
Toronto chosen him with the eighth total choose within the 2025 MLB Draft from Purvis Excessive College in Mississippi. He signed below slot at $6,197,500.
Parker has slashed .258/.388/.471 with 13 house runs, 24 doubles, three triples, 66 RBI and 22 stolen bases on the Single-A stage this yr.
Toronto Blue Jays’ No. 1 Prospect JoJo Parker
GettyPHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA – JULY 12: JoJo Parker #1 of the Toronto Blue Jays on the American League Workforce slides into second base after hitting an RBI double within the seventh inning in the course of the 2026 MLB Futures Sport at Residents Financial institution Park on July 12, 2026 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photograph by Emilee Chinn/Getty Photos)
Listed below are Parker’s scouting grades by way of MLB Pipeline:
- Hit: 60
- Energy: 55
- Run: 50
- Arm: 55
- Discipline: 50
- Total: 55
Parker is a left-handed hitter. Whereas he has impressed in Single-A, the one concern has been his excessive strikeout fee. The shortstop has struck out 99 instances in 399 plate appearances, which is fairly excessive for Single-A.
GettyPHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA – JULY 12: JoJo Parker #1 of the Toronto Blue Jays on the American League Workforce in the course of the 2026 MLB Futures Sport at Residents Financial institution Park on July 12, 2026 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photograph by Al Bello/Getty Photos)
Regardless, there’s a lot to love about Parker. Placing up an .859 OPS in his first season {of professional} baseball out of highschool is a formidable feat.
He doubtless has what it takes to remain at shortstop. If not, the truth that he’s a shortstop means he ought to be capable to play each different place on the diamond.
Toronto Blue Jays Proper Now
GettyWASHINGTON, DC – JULY 29: Supervisor John Schneider #14 of the Toronto Blue Jays seems on from the dugout in the course of the second inning towards the Washington Nationals at Nationals Park on July 29, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Photograph by Scott Taetsch/Getty Photos)
The Blue Jays are having a disappointing season after being two outs wanting profitable the 2025 World Sequence.
At the moment, Toronto is in final place within the American League East with a 55-62 report. The workforce is 15 video games again of the Tampa Bay Rays for first place within the division.
Though they’re seven video games beneath .500, the Blue Jays are nonetheless alive within the postseason race. Toronto is simply 3 1/2 video games again of the Texas Rangers for the ultimate American League Wild Card spot.
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