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CBC
23-05-2025
- Sport
- CBC
Toronto Blue Jays prospect Arjun Nimmala speaks to CBC News
Vancouver Canadians infielder Arjun Nimmala, who was selected 20th overall by the Toronto Blue Jays in the 2023 Major League Baseball draft, hopes to inspire a future generation of baseball players of Indian descent. CBC's Zameer Karim met with Nimmala ahead of a recent game at Nat Bailey Stadium.
The Province
18-05-2025
- Sport
- The Province
Report: The Toronto Blue Jays' No. 2-rated prospect is set to join the Vancouver Canadians
The fireballing righty joins shortstop Arjun Nimmala, who's Toronto's No. 1 prospect, on the C's, and should pitch in Vancouver on May 27 Get the latest from Steve Ewen straight to your inbox Trey Yesavage going through the paces earlier this season with the Dunedin Blue Jays. There are reports he's been promoted to the Vancouver Canadians. Photo by Dunedin Blue Jays photo The Vancouver Canadians already feature Toronto Blue Jays' No. 1 prospect, Arjun Nimmala. Now, apparently, the No. 2-ranked Trey Yesavage is on his way to join the Nat Bailey Stadium crew. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Exclusive articles by top sports columnists Patrick Johnston, Ben Kuzma, J.J. Abrams and others. Plus, Canucks Report, Sports and Headline News newsletters and events. Unlimited online access to The Province and 15 news sites with one account. The Province ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition to view on any device, share and comment on. Daily puzzles and comics, including the New York Times Crossword. Support local journalism. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Exclusive articles by top sports columnists Patrick Johnston, Ben Kuzma, J.J. Abrams and others. Plus, Canucks Report, Sports and Headline News newsletters and events. Unlimited online access to The Province and 15 news sites with one account. The Province ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition to view on any device, share and comment on. Daily puzzles and comics, including the New York Times Crossword. Support local journalism. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors There's been no official word from the C's as of yet, but Blue Jays reporter Keegan Matheson at writes that the Blue Jays are promoting fireballing pitcher Yesavage from the single-A Dunedin Blue Jays to high-A Vancouver, along with fellow right-handers Khal Stephen and Gage Stanifer. Yesavage, 21, who was Toronto's first-round pick (No. 20 overall) in last summer's entry draft, last pitched Tuesday for Dunedin. The Blue Jays would undoubtedly want to keep him on the same routine. The C's are wrapping up a series with the Everett AquaSox on Sunday at the Nat. They start a six-game road set with the Eugene Emeralds on Tuesday, and then are back at the Nat for six against the Hillsboro Hops starting May 27. Yesavage would start that night, assuming he's kept on his current schedule. Essential reading for hockey fans who eat, sleep, Canucks, repeat. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. The #BlueJays are promoting one of Single-A's most dominant pitching trios to Vancouver, led by No. 2 prospect Trey Yesavage. Full story on the news: — Keegan Matheson (@KeeganMatheson) May 16, 2025 This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Nimmala, 19, is a right-handed hitting shortstop who was Toronto's first-round pick (No. 20 overall) in 2023 and he has been superb so far for Vancouver, despite being one of the younger players in the Northwest League. Nimmala went into Sunday's doubleheader against the AquaSox hitting .277, with seven home runs and 18 runs batted in, through 32 games. The 6-foot-4, 225-pound Yesavage has a fastball that sits at 93-95 miles per hour and peaks at 98. The speculation all season has been that the Blue Jays would bump him up to Vancouver once the weather here started to warm up. He's dominated through seven starts at Dunedin, striking out 55 while walking just eight in 33 and one-third innings. He's gone 3-0 there, with a 2.43 earned run average. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Yesavage received a $4.18 million signing bonus from the Blue Jays. Nimmala's signing bonus was $3 million. The top 10 pitching prospects according to the Formulated Consensus!1. Trey Yesavage2. Chase Burns3. Jonah Tong4. Gage Jump5. Bubba Chandler6. Sean Linan7. Carlos Lagrange8. Logan Henderson9. Wei-En Lin10. Jacob Misiorowski Join StS for more! — Scout the Statline (@StatlineScout) May 17, 2025 This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Stephen, 22, is Toronto's No. 10-ranked prospect. He was 3-0, with a 2.06 ERA, in eight appearances with Dunedin, including seven starts. Stanifer, 21, has been Dunedin's closer. He's 4-0, with an 0.69 earned run average and two saves in seven appearances. MLB Pipeline has Nimmala and Yesavage in those top two positions among Blue Jays prospects. Vancouver's leading player on MLB Pipeline's Toronto list to finish last season was lefty Kendry Rojas, who came in at No. 12. When 2023 came to a close, righty Dahian Santos led Vancouver players on the MLB Pipeline rating of Blue Jay up and comers, slotted at No. 11. Nimmala comes in at No. 59 and No. 71 in MLB Pipeline's updated top-100 rankings for the entire minor leagues. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. The C's likely haven't had prospects of this ilk since lefty Ricky Tiedemann did an eight-game turn with Vancouver in 2022. He was Toronto's No. 6 prospect when he arrived in May. By July, he had jumped to No. 3 in the Toronto system and No. 63 in the minors. He had entered the top-100 minors list at No. 100 on May 31. He made his last start with Vancouver on July 8 and then was promoted to the double-A New Hampshire Fisher Cats. Vancouver has been a Toronto farm team since 2011. They moved from the short-season, single-A level to high-A when Major League Baseball rejigged the minors during the COVID-19 pandemic break in 2020. SEwen@ @SteveEwen Read More Vancouver Canucks Junior Hockey News Vancouver Canucks News
Yahoo
07-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Why the Blue Jays are so high on top prospect Arjun Nimmala: 'He's got a bright future'
Why the Blue Jays are so high on top prospect Arjun Nimmala: 'He's got a bright future' He is still 19 years old and thus years away from being considered a potential solution for the Blue Jays ongoing offensive woes. But even with that delayed flight plan for the franchise's No. 1-rated prospect to soar in the big leagues, it's near impossible not to get excited about the accelerated development of Arjun Nimmala. The teenage phenom remains the brightest light in the Jays system — and it may not even be close. Settling in nicely in his first move up the organizational ladder with the Vancouver Canadians, Nimmala certainly has thrived in his first pro exposure north of the border. He has rocked six home runs through his first 22 games, more than any player at any level in the Toronto organization, including the Blue Jays. It's little consolation for the immediate travails of the big club, but the 20th-overall pick in the 2023 MLB draft has done nothing but impress since a brief reset shortly after debuting at the lowest level a year ago. ADVERTISEMENT 'The biggest thing for me with Arjun is the adjustment he made,' Jays general manager Ross Atkins said recently. 'I don't see that too often, when someone struggles and then makes a significant adjustment. Was comfortable pulling him out of competition to do so and came right back into the fold.' It was then that the benefits of the Jays player development complex in Dunedin became centre stage for an incredibly talented and bright young prospect to find his way back on an upward trajectory in relatively short order. And a reset session at the facility a year ago not only helped fix Nimmala's technical struggles, but allowed the Jays to gain further insight into his ability beyond the obvious bat-to-ball skills. After his first 29 games with the Dunedin Blue Jays in 2024, Nimmala was batting a meagre .167 with an arresting 43 strikeouts. Rather than let him work through those struggles during games, they placed the teenager on the development list and sent him to the complex where he made adjustments and recalibrated. Upon his return, Nimmala was a different player and he has never looked back. ADVERTISEMENT Through his first 24 games with the Canadians this year, Nimmala is hitting .283 with six homers, six doubles and 13 RBI. That seamless transition to the next level of the minors is just the latest step by the young shortstop. So what makes him so impressive? 'It's his cognitive ability,' Atkins said. 'The intellect and his ability to use his brain to impact his baseball skills are the things that stand out to me.' His work has been so impressive that it must be tempting to further hasten Nimmala's progress. But he's listed as the youngest player in the Northwest League, a further testament to what Nimmala has accomplished thus far. It's possible that he progresses faster than the average position player, but it also is clear that the Jays won't rush him to make any of it happen. That said, the maturity Nimmala has shown since being drafted is just another of the qualities that have impressed his employers. ADVERTISEMENT 'Very anecdotal and very subjective, but I've met a lot of first-round picks in my career and there's a pretty traditional meeting between a GM and a first-round pick,' Atkins said. 'They come in for their physical, there's a little bit of media around them and there's a lot of spotlight on them. 'And I'm now 30 years in, I've seen at least 30 of them, and he's one of the best I've ever seen in just handling that situation with a level of maturity and intellectual ability. 'He's got a bright future.' Beyond what he has done through the two lowest levels of the minors — as encouragingly eye-catching as it has been — the team has given Nimmala a taste of the big-league environment during spring training. ADVERTISEMENT In his 10 at-bats over six Grapefruit League games this past spring, Nimmala had a pair of hits — a home run and a double. More important than the results, however, was the way Nimmala handled his immersion in that environment was impressive. 'You saw it in spring training, where nothing ever sped up on him,' Atkins said. 'So to see that on that stage when Bo (Bichette) and Vladdy (Guerrero Jr.) and (manager John Schneider) are watching, that's encouraging.' And in the eyes of some, surely tantalizing for a player still three levels away from the big-league team that statistically has one of the worst offences in the major leagues.
National Post
07-05-2025
- Sport
- National Post
Why the Blue Jays are so high on top prospect Arjun Nimmala: 'He's got a bright future'
He is still 19 years old and thus years away from being considered a potential solution for the Blue Jays ongoing offensive woes. Article content Article content But even with that delayed flight plan for the franchise's No. 1-rated prospect to soar in the big leagues, it's near impossible not to get excited about the accelerated development of Arjun Nimmala. Article content The teenage phenom remains the brightest light in the Jays system — and it may not even be close. Article content Settling in nicely in his first move up the organizational ladder with the Vancouver Canadians, Nimmala certainly has thrived in his first pro exposure north of the border. He has rocked six home runs through his first 22 games, more than any player at any level in the Toronto organization, including the Blue Jays. Article content Article content It's little consolation for the immediate travails of the big club, but the 20th-overall pick in the 2023 MLB draft has done nothing but impress since a brief reset shortly after debuting at the lowest level a year ago. Article content 'The biggest thing for me with Arjun is the adjustment he made,' Jays general manager Ross Atkins said recently. 'I don't see that too often, when someone struggles and then makes a significant adjustment. Was comfortable pulling him out of competition to do so and came right back into the fold.' Article content It was then that the benefits of the Jays player development complex in Dunedin became centre stage for an incredibly talented and bright young prospect to find his way back on an upward trajectory in relatively short order. And a reset session at the facility a year ago not only helped fix Nimmala's technical struggles, but allowed the Jays to gain further insight into his ability beyond the obvious bat-to-ball skills. Article content After his first 29 games with the Dunedin Blue Jays in 2024, Nimmala was batting a meagre .167 with an arresting 43 strikeouts. Article content Article content Rather than let him work through those struggles during games, they placed the teenager on the development list and sent him to the complex where he made adjustments and recalibrated. Article content Through his first 24 games with the Canadians this year, Nimmala is hitting .283 with six homers, six doubles and 13 RBI. That seamless transition to the next level of the minors is just the latest step by the young shortstop. Article content 'It's his cognitive ability,' Atkins said. 'The intellect and his ability to use his brain to impact his baseball skills are the things that stand out to me.' Article content His work has been so impressive that it must be tempting to further hasten Nimmala's progress. But he's listed as the youngest player in the Northwest League, a further testament to what Nimmala has accomplished thus far.
Toronto Sun
07-05-2025
- Sport
- Toronto Sun
Why the Blue Jays are so high on top prospect Arjun Nimmala: 'He's got a bright future'
'The intellect and his ability to use his brain to impact his baseball skills are the things that stand out to me.' Get the latest from Rob Longley straight to your inbox Toronto Blue Jays prospect Arjun Nimmala takes batting practice with the team in 2023. Getty Images He is still 19 years old and thus years away from being considered a potential solution for the Blue Jays ongoing offensive woes. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. 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Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account But even with that delayed flight plan for the franchise's No. 1-rated prospect to soar in the big leagues, it's near impossible not to get excited about the accelerated development of Arjun Nimmala. The teenage phenom remains the brightest light in the Jays system — and it may not even be close. Settling in nicely in his first move up the organizational ladder with the Vancouver Canadians, Nimmala certainly has thrived in his first pro exposure north of the border. He has rocked six home runs through his first 22 games, more than any player at any level in the Toronto organization, including the Blue Jays. It's little consolation for the immediate travails of the big club, but the 20th-overall pick in the 2023 MLB draft has done nothing but impress since a brief reset shortly after debuting at the lowest level a year ago. 'The biggest thing for me with Arjun is the adjustment he made,' Jays general manager Ross Atkins said recently. 'I don't see that too often, when someone struggles and then makes a significant adjustment. Was comfortable pulling him out of competition to do so and came right back into the fold.' Your noon-hour look at what's happening in Toronto and beyond. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. It was then that the benefits of the Jays player development complex in Dunedin became centre stage for an incredibly talented and bright young prospect to find his way back on an upward trajectory in relatively short order. And a reset session at the facility a year ago not only helped fix Nimmala's technical struggles, but allowed the Jays to gain further insight into his ability beyond the obvious bat-to-ball skills. After his first 29 games with the Dunedin Blue Jays in 2024, Nimmala was batting a meagre .167 with an arresting 43 strikeouts. Rather than let him work through those struggles during games, they placed the teenager on the development list and sent him to the complex where he made adjustments and recalibrated. Upon his return, Nimmala was a different player and he has never looked back. Through his first 24 games with the Canadians this year, Nimmala is hitting .283 with six homers, six doubles and 13 RBI. That seamless transition to the next level of the minors is just the latest step by the young shortstop. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. So what makes him so impressive? 'It's his cognitive ability,' Atkins said. 'The intellect and his ability to use his brain to impact his baseball skills are the things that stand out to me.' His work has been so impressive that it must be tempting to further hasten Nimmala's progress. But he's listed as the youngest player in the Northwest League, a further testament to what Nimmala has accomplished thus far. It's possible that he progresses faster than the average position player, but it also is clear that the Jays won't rush him to make any of it happen. That said, the maturity Nimmala has shown since being drafted is just another of the qualities that have impressed his employers. 'Very anecdotal and very subjective, but I've met a lot of first-round picks in my career and there's a pretty traditional meeting between a GM and a first-round pick,' Atkins said. 'They come in for their physical, there's a little bit of media around them and there's a lot of spotlight on them. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. 'And I'm now 30 years in, I've seen at least 30 of them, and he's one of the best I've ever seen in just handling that situation with a level of maturity and intellectual ability. 'He's got a bright future.' Read More Beyond what he has done through the two lowest levels of the minors — as encouragingly eye-catching as it has been — the team has given Nimmala a taste of the big-league environment during spring training. In his 10 at-bats over six Grapefruit League games this past spring, Nimmala had a pair of hits — a home run and a double. More important than the results, however, was the way Nimmala handled his immersion in that environment was impressive. 'You saw it in spring training, where nothing ever sped up on him,' Atkins said. 'So to see that on that stage when Bo (Bichette) and Vladdy (Guerrero Jr.) and (manager John Schneider) are watching, that's encouraging.' And in the eyes of some, surely tantalizing for a player still three levels away from the big-league team that statistically has one of the worst offences in the major leagues. Canada Columnists Sunshine Girls MLB Toronto Maple Leafs
