Jays #1 Minor League System - John Sickels

[torontoaces04]

very nice - waiting for Dagger or Torontoaces to somehow crap all over this thread.

Show me a post where I have bashed the Jays farm system.

Sickels is definitely an authority on the Minors, so this news is huge! I wonder who the 8 B+ or better prospects he's thinking about are.

My guess:
D'Arnaud
Gose
Marisnick
Hutchison
Syndergaard
Nicolino
Norris
Sanchez

I don't know how similar his rankings of our top guys are to that of BA or not.

[Krylian]

My guess is that Jenkins will see he Majors this year.

That being said, I'm not a huge believer in Jenkins. He's a #4/5 in my eyes...or possibly an effective reliever. He's got a solid sinker/slider...but from everything I've heard and read there's nothing special about his stuff. I'd like to be wrong, but I hold a lot more optimism for Hutchison, and to a lesser degree, McGuire.

[satyr9]

With Marisnick possibly coming up this season. Do you think they move him to LF? I heard they were moving him to RF, but of course we have Bautista.

I'd be shocked if he made the bigs this season; he's only 20, and just spent the year in low-A. Best-case is probably that he finishes out this upcoming year in AA, and might see the big league roster in 2013.

Best case would be he finishes the year in Triple A. Especially if management continues to be aggressive with out prospects and decides to promote Marisnick right away from Low A to Double A.

I think it's going to have to slow down considerably. Figuring out where to put Gose as early as next year will require shuffling if he keeps his pace up. Marisnick then already supplants Thames/Snider/Rasmus in left a year later? IMO you're going to see the movement slow down to a more Rays-like pace, simply because there's nowhere for them. That, or the wheeling and dealing solves the problem, but when you factor in the sheer number of guys in lowA territory, most of them are going to have to go through a more traditional development path and take 3-4 years to get to the bigs.