East Carolina alum and Blue Jays prospect pitcher Trey Yesavage had a much better second minor league outing on Sunday.
Trey Yesavage threw 41 of his 55 pitches for strikes as the @BlueJays‘ top pitching prospect fanned 4 for the second straight @dunedinbluejays start. pic.twitter.com/gWM4kJJOvO
— MLB Pipeline (@MLBPipeline) April 13, 2025
Yesavage went four innings, gave up an earned run on three hits and struck out four for Dunedin in a 10-2 victory. In fact, his only real flaws were a pitch timer violation, some batters chasing after pitches that were balls and causing one batter to lose control of his bat after chasing a third strike.
He had 41 of his 55 pitches for strikes over 16 batters, coaxed four groundouts and a flyout.
Zach Worden of SportsNet.ca said he “generated 8 whiffs with his splitter, including this one:”
Trey Yesavage looked much improved today with Class-A Dunedin.
Threw 55 pitches — 41 strikes — and struck out 4 over 4.0 innings while allowing 3 hits, 1 run and 0 walks. Generated 8 whiffs with his splitter, including this one:pic.twitter.com/zrHh4V9x3E
— Zach Worden (@Worden_Zach) April 13, 2025
However, Marc Hulet saw it differently, saying “Yesavage really struggled to command his FB and a lot of those strikes were swings from overly-aggressive players. The young Marlins prospects bailed him out a lot. He’ll get creamed in AA if he pitches like that. Pic shows a K where he was nowhere near zone.”
This is misleading. Yesavage really struggled to command his FB and a lot of those strikes were swings from overly-aggressive players. The young Marlins prospects bailed him out a lot.
He’ll get creamed in AA if he pitches like that. Pic shows a K where he was nowhere near zone https://t.co/10tgIdddhg pic.twitter.com/04sjh5K06e
— Marc Hulet (@marchulet) April 13, 2025
Guess we’ll find out. His chances of advancing up the minor league ladder to Class AA is looking good right now. For the season he has eight strikeouts over 7.2 innings for a 1.17 ERA and 1.30 WHIP.
Fellow ECU alum Jacob Jenkins-Cowart started in right field for Jupiter. He went 0-for-3 with a walk and a strikeout by Yesavage in the fourth inning. It was Yesavage’s last strikeout in his last inning of work.
Photo credit: Trey Yesavage (Toronto Blue Jays photo)
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