The Blue Jays’ prospect board got a fresh coat of paint, but the headliners stayed put.
Toronto’s top four - JoJo Parker, Arjun Nimmala, Nolan Perry and Johnny King - held their spots in MLB Pipeline’s latest Top-30 update, even as the rest of the list saw plenty of movement. The names at the top have become familiar for a reason.
Nimmala, drafted in 2023, has already climbed to Double-A New Hampshire this season, the highest level of his pro career. Parker, the first-round pick in the 2025 draft, is in his first year in the system and has already drawn comparisons to big league All-Stars like Trevor Story.
King remains one of the more eye-catching arms in the group. After turning heads with his radar-gun readings last season at Single-A Dunedin, he’s kept building in 2026 with High-A Vancouver. In 18 starts and 71 innings, he has a 3.30 ERA and a 12.17 K/9 rate.
Perry’s rise has been just as notable, though his season has taken a hit. He was in the MLB Futures Game during All-Star weekend and has been climbing steadily after entering the year just barely on the Top-30 list.
Drafted in the 12th round in 2022, Perry showed real growth in 2023 with a 2.93 ERA and 11.15 K/9 across 46 innings in 14 starts before an elbow injury ended his season in August and led to UCL surgery. He missed all of 2025, then had to essentially restart in 2026.
That comeback has been moving in the right direction, but he’s now on the injured list after taking a comebacker off the head during the Futures Game and entering concussion protocol.
Beyond the top four, there was real movement up the board. Sean Keys jumped to No. 6 and Charles McAdoo moved to No. 12 after hot starts pushed both players onto the big league roster. Their time with Toronto was brief, but both have put themselves in position to get another look later this year or, at the very least, to be in the mix for a job out of spring training in 2027.
The pitching side saw its own rise. Danny Thompson Jr. is now the No. 15 prospect after moving from High-A Vancouver to Double-A New Hampshire.
The 23-year-old, drafted in the eighth round last year, has posted a 2.70 ERA and 3.81 FIP in 26.2 innings after working 12 games, nine of them starts, in Vancouver. Daniel Guerra also climbed, landing at No.
- The 22-year-old, drafted in 2022, has been strong for High-A Vancouver with a 3.00 ERA, 3.30 FIP and 12.30 K/9 in 60 innings.
Not every name moved up. Ricky Tidemann and Jake Bloss both slipped after injury-marred stretches.
Tidemann, now No. 10, has thrown fewer than 20 innings combined over the last three years, including in 2026. Drafted in the third round in 2021, he reached Triple-A at the end of 2023, was with Buffalo in 2024 before Tommy John surgery ended that season, missed all of 2025 and has been limited to two innings in Rookie Ball this year because of more injuries.
Bloss, ranked No. 11, came to Toronto in the 2024 trade deadline deal that sent Yusei Kikuchi to the Houston Astros. He had already logged 11.2 big league innings with Houston in 2024, but injuries have kept interrupting his progress.
He was limited to 23.2 innings in 2025 and has thrown 39.1 innings in 2026. Bloss made five starts for Triple-A Buffalo before being shut down just over a week ago with a teres major injury in his right shoulder.
The rest of the updated list includes 18-year-old international free agent Juan Sanchez at No. 5, right-hander Gage Stanifer at No. 7, outfielders Blaine Bullard and RJ Schreck at No. 8 and No. 9, infielders Josh Kasavich and Jay Harry at No. 14 and No. 19, and 2022 first-round pick Brandon Barriera at No. 30.
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