The Vancouver Canadiens, the High-A affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays, earned their 12th Northwest League Player of the Week honor for 2025.

Congratulations are in order for Toronto Blue Jays prospect Sean Keys, who was just named as the Northwest League's final Player of the Week for 2025. He's playing with the High-A Vancouver Canadiens. 

This is the 12th Player of the Week for Vancouver this season, marking an organizational record. Keys is a corner infielder.

About Keys

Now 22 years old, Keys was drafted in the fourth round of the 2024 draft by the Blue Jays out of Bucknell University in Pennsylvania. Listed at 6'2 and 225 pounds, he bats left-handed and throws right-handed, and his power and arm are his highest graded tools, according to MLB Pipeline.

This season, Keys spent the entire year in Vancouver, hitting just .217 with 19 home runs, 72 RBIs and 86 walks. Though the batting average isn't much to write home about, his plate discipline and .365 on-base percentage are. There are tools to work with, and given that he was a fourth-round pick, he'll have a long leash with the organization. 

Tobey Schulman noted that he had home runs in three consecutive days.

He is ranked as the No. 27 prospect in the organization by MLB Pipeline.

What the reports say

The following comes from a portion of his MLB.com prospect profile:

Keys has easy power. An analytics darling coming out of the Draft, he is big and barrel-chested, producing pop without needing a max-effort swing. In the same vein of past development projects like Spencer Horwitz and Alan Roden, Keys has an excellent approach at the plate and could keep a walk total close to his strikeouts. Whether Keys’ raw power shows up in games consistently will be a deciding factor on his long-term ceiling, but either way, his profile is heavily tied to his bat.

Blue Jays in the bigs

Toronto enters the week at two games ahead of the New York Yankees in the American League East. They'll be back in action on Tuesday night against the Houston Astros in a battle of division leaders. First pitch from the Rogers Centre is 7:07 p.m. ET.