Peyton Williams is one of five Blue Jays prospects who could breakout in 2025
The Toronto Blue Jays farm system needs a breakout player.
There are quite a few interesting prospects that don’t quite rank in the team’s top 30 prospects according to MLB Pipeline that could break out in 2025. That list doesn’t update until March, so we’ll look at the mid-season update.
Let’s dig in!
Randy Soto
The Blue Jays signed catcher/first baseman Randy Soto during the 2024 international free agency period.
In his first professional season, the then 17-year-old slashed .269/.485/.351 with no home runs in 194 plate appearances, with his 149 wRC+ being undoubtedly the best on the Dominican Summer League Blue Jays. While he didn’t hit a home run, he had 11 doubles and a higher BB% (22.7%) than K% (13.4%).
Soto spent his time between first base and catcher. In 166 innings behind the plate, he committed four errors while throwing out 12 would-be base stealers in 45 attempts for a respectable 26.7 CS%. He also allowed six passed balls.
Moving up to the Florida Complex League will be a tough task, just ask Enmanuel Bonilla, but Soto was arguably their best rookie prospect last season and hopefully, he can keep this up.
Peyton Williams
The Blue Jays selected Peyton Williams with their seventh-round pick in the 2022 draft. Since then, he’s been one of their most underrated prospects.
Williams stands at 6’5”, 255 lb, and slashed .289/.362/.476 with 11 home runs in 334 plate appearances last season with the High-A Vancouver Canadians. The left-handed batting first baseman was a big reason why the Canadians turned around their season and ended up going to their third consecutive Northwest League Championship Series.
Due to the time he missed to begin the season, the Blue Jays sent Williams to the Arizona Fall League. With the Scottsdale Scorpions, he’s slashed .286/.344/.464 with three home runs in 93 plate appearances, with 23 strikeouts and eight walks. Two of those home runs came in the same game, and they were absolutely obliterated.
He doesn’t play a premier position by any means, but his power is some of the best in the organization.
Rainer Nuñez
Rainer Nuñez signed with the Jays in the 2017
international free agency period and it’s been an up-and-down career for him the past three seasons.
The first baseman had a terrific season in 2022, slashing .299/.328/.482 with 15 home runs in Single-A, eventually winning the Florida State League batting title. He was just as good in High-A Vancouver, slashing .321/.379/.491 with four home runs in 116 plate appearances. Nuñez also won the Dominican Winter League Rookie of the Year Award in 2022.
