A year ago, Trey Yesavage sat in the Toronto Blue Jays home dugout for the first time. He walked through the Rogers Centre weight room and big-league clubhouse, admiring the facilities he one day hoped to use. The young pitcher grinned as cameras flanked him in the dugout, looking around in awe.<\/p>\n
Yesavage is now one call away from walking back into those big-league facilities and home dugout. The Jays\u2019 top pitching prospect will be promoted to Triple-A Buffalo this week, a league source confirmed. With Toronto (69-50) fighting for playoff seeding in the final weeks of the 2025 season, Yesavage is now a call-up away from contributing to Toronto\u2019s pennant chase.<\/p>\n
The 2024 first-round pick entered the year second in Keith Law\u2019s ranking of Blue Jays prospects<\/a>. At the end of May, he ranked<\/a> as the sixth-best right-handed pitching prospect in all of baseball and the 47th-overall prospect. Going into the 2024 MLB Draft, Law noted<\/a> Yesavage was one of the most major-league-ready arms in the class.<\/p>\n Starting his first professional season in Low-A Dunedin, Yesavage has now earned three promotions in five months, pushing to the top of Toronto\u2019s farm. Utilizing a funky arm slot and a four-pitch mix \u2014 including a plus fastball, slider and splitter \u2014 the 22-year-old struck out 134 batters in his first 80 2\/3 minor-league innings. He owns the third-most strikeouts in all of minor-league baseball.<\/p>\n Yesavage experienced a slight command dip when promoted to Double A in June, walking seven batters in his first 6 2\/3 innings, but has walked just four over the following six outings. He took three weeks off from game action around the 2025 All-Star break. The pause slowed the righty\u2019s rising workload, which should allow him to pitch through the end of the season without reaching an innings cap, league sources said.<\/p>\n In early August, Blue Jays manager John Schneider mentioned Yesavage, alongside lefty Adam Macko, as a potential big-league pitching option down the stretch.<\/p>\n \u201cI think Yesavage could (factor in),\u201d Schneider said. \u201cI know he\u2019s not on the 40-man, but I think he could.\u201d<\/p>\n With five healthy starters in the big-league rotation and Shane Bieber and Alek Manoah working back from Tommy John surgeries at the top of Toronto\u2019s system, the Jays\u2019 starting pitching depth appears to be in a good place. However, Yesavage came out of the bullpen for the first time in his professional career last week, throwing five innings of relief with nine strikeouts at New Hampshire.<\/p>\n That flexibility could position Yesavage, now on the cusp of his big-league debut, to fill any role for Toronto in the final weeks of the season.<\/p>\n (Photo: Mike Janes \/ Four Seam Images via Associated Press)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A year ago, Trey Yesavage sat in the Toronto Blue Jays home dugout for the first time. He…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":137700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1266,62,1290,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-137699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115011759995204075","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}