While the Toronto Blue Jays continue their postseason push at the major league level, the minor league regular seasons are coming to an end.

And with that, it's time to start taking stock of how some highly-noted prospects have done, including Toronto Blue Jays top prospect JoJo Parker.

Parker concluded his season at High-A Vancouver over the weekend.

Just 20 years old, Parker was drafted in the first round of the 2025 MLB Draft out of the Mississippi high school ranks. He began the year with Single-A Dunedin, playing 87 games and hitting .258 with 13 home runs and 66 RBIs. In those 87 games, he walked a whopping 63 times and stole 22 bases.

The biggest bugaboo for him was the strikeout: He fanned 99 times in those 87 games.

His numbers improved in the hitter-friendly Northwest League, as he played 21 games for High-A Vancouver. In those 21 games, he hit .316 and posted a .443 on-base percentage. While he did not homer, he had seven RBIs and he only struck out 18 times, less than once per game.

He represented the Blue Jays at the MLB Futures Game.

He's the No. 26 prospect in baseball (per MLB Pipeline) and feels destined to start the 2027 campaign at High-A again, with a plan to elevate him to Double-A by season's end.

Remember: If the major leagues miss games because of a pending lockout, minor league baseball still happens. Since Parker is not on the MLB 40-man roster, he'll be able to keep playing and keep developing, which is a major thing for the organization.

Parker looks like the shortstop of the future and that's become clear over the last 10 months or so. Once the team allowed Bo Bichette to leave in free agency, the door was open for Parker. Once they traded Arjun Nimmala to the Los Angeles Angels for Jose Soriano at the trade deadline? It was wide open.

He's not projected to make his major league debut until 2029, but it seems like he can challenge that if he continues to progress.

Over the last several years, the Blue Jays have spent a ton of money on the MLB roster. And that's good, because the organization has been invested in winning. However, teams don't want to always "spend their way out" of problems. Having internal answers like Parker is what teams covet, and the Jays haven't had enough of them recently.

Parker's development is key because it would allow the Blue Jays to start to have those internal answers once again.