Rising Star Trey Yesavage: Toronto Blue Jays' Pitching Prodigy

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00:00Let's go down the list here and start to educate some people that may be unfamiliar, Joe. Where do

00:04you want to start? Yeah, I'm going to start with Trey Yosavage, who for the Toronto Blue Jays is a

00:11very quick riser. He is a starting pitcher there in that system. Now he's jumped from A to high A

00:16to AA so far. So combined 16 starts, he's got a 3-7-2 ERA. Now the five starts at AA have been

00:23a little slower than the other ones, just to point out too, 17 innings, that walk rate has jumped a

00:27little bit. But he has got a 14.8 strikeout per nine rate for his career minor leagues right now.

00:35That is absurd. That is incredible. So what he's got to do is he's got to refine the control a little

00:41bit. This was the same problem that Jacob Mizorowski had. Jacob Mizorowski was a guy that threw hard,

00:47tough to pick up, uncomfortable at bat. But at the end of the day, he was kind of his own worst enemy.

00:52So if Trey Yosavage can find that same path that Mizorowski had and really start to figure out

00:57the walks, figure out all that stuff and just kind of contain it a little bit more.

01:01He's only 21 years old out of Pennsylvania. He's 6'4", 225. So he's quote unquote, what they look

01:06like. And he's also got a really interesting delivery. He's very over the top. It's almost

01:11hard to describe how much he gets on top of the ball. And it's really difficult to pick up the

01:17baseball too. So what he's got to do is just refine those mechanics, find that consistency,

01:21because what he was doing earlier this year at A-ball was spectacular. He went through that

01:28basically like a hot knife through butter. He was incredible in A-ball and high A, just a 1-5-6 ERA,

01:36the striking out everybody, 3-1 strikeout to walk ratio. So he's just got to find the plate a little

01:41bit more consistently, get that first pitch strike. But this is a name that either the Blue Jays are

01:46going to have in that rotation, you know, kind of scraping at that rotation, maybe the beginning

01:50of next year or better yet, could even be a trade ship that could bring them back a piece because

01:56it's been a long time since the Blue Jays have been contenders and they are this year. And who's

02:00to say that they can't be the ones to go to the World Series in a very mediocre American league.

02:05The Blue Jays are absolutely in this thing. So interesting name to keep an eye on and in

02:09dynasty leagues, an interesting name to acquire.