Blue Jays 2016 Top Prospects: 30 - 21

The new administration is very protective of prospects and draft picks. One piece of evidence supporting this assertion is that all thirty of last years Batters Box top 30 prospects are still with the organization. Those 30 prospects have been bolstered with the 2016 draft class plus two prospects who came over in the Liriano trade.

The expectation of the top 30 prospects for any team is that one third will improve, one third will regress and one third will stay as they were. Thirteen of last years top 30 prospects did not make it onto this years list. Some of them have indeed regressed but the addition of this years draftees, and the traded players, has raised the level of the top thirty. A…