The Toronto Blue Jays are coming off their best season in over three decades and will be looking to finish the job in 2026.

The Blue Jays won the American League pennant for the first time since 1993 last year and advanced to Game 7 of the World Series before falling by one run to the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Being so close to the finish line has left many analysts and fans to look at how Toronto will put together the roster in efforts of winning the championship in 2026.

The Blue Jays invested over $300 million in contract totals this offseason to sign starting pitchers Dylan Cease, Cody Ponce, reliever Tyler Rogers and third baseman Kazuma Okamoto to do just that.

However, the organization's farm system has also been discussed at length.

Most publications have at least two Toronto players in their respective top 100 lists. Right-handed starting pitcher Trey Yesavage, who made several starts for the Blue Jays in the final month of the regular season and the playoffs, is the top prospect in most publications.

According to MLB Pipeline's first top 100 list of 2026, Toronto has three top 100 minor leaguers: Yesavage (No. 12); shortstop JoJo Parker (No. 45) and shortstop Arjun Nimmala (No. 77).

Baseball America also had three Jays on its top 100: Yesavage (No. 10); Nimmala (No. 62) and Parker (No. 66).

ESPN's Kiley McDaniel recently released his own top 100 list and he seems higher on the Blue Jays' farm system than most publications. 

McDaniel had four Toronto players on his list: Yesavage (No. 14); Parker (No. 52); Nimmala (No. 76) and left-handed pitcher Johnny King (No. 85).

King is the clear outlier in McDaniel's list compared to the other publications.

The 19-year-old southpaw was selected by the Blue Jays in the third round of the 2024 MLB Draft out of high school, the same class as Yesavage.

McDaniel had the following scouting report on King:

... I liked that he was young for his class, a projectable 6-foot-3 who pitched aggressively with big extension, good fastball shape, and a strong breaking ball. Scouts didn't like that there was effort to his delivery, he didn't have much of a third pitch, and his velocity would tail off later in outings. In less than two years, King went from sitting around 90 mph at showcase events as a 16-year-old to sitting 93-95 and hitting 97 mph in Single-A, producing 64 strikeouts in (37.2) innings.

King split his time in 2025 with the organization's Florida Complex League club and the Single-A Dunedin Blue Jays. He was promoted to Single-A on June 29.

King posted a 2.48 ERA and struck out 105 batters in 61.2 innings pitched across 18 appearances (15 starts). He held opposing hitters to a .200 average.

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