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Toronto Blue Jays Moving One of Baseball's Top Pitching Prospects Up a Level

The Toronto Blue Jays are moving up their top pitching prospect, and baseball's No. 31 overall prospect, Ricky Tiedemann, to Triple-A for the first time.
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Toronto Blue Jays Moving One of Baseball's Top Pitching Prospects Up a Level
Toronto Blue Jays Moving One of Baseball's Top Pitching Prospects Up a Level

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As the minor league season gets set to wrap up, the Toronto Blue Jays are promoting their top overall prospect, Ricky Tiedemann, to Triple-A.

The left-handed pitcher is also the No. 31 prospect in all of baseball.

Ricky Tiedemann will be joining the Bisons this week in Buffalo. His Triple-A Debut is TBA.

The 21-year-old has dealt with injury this season but has made 14 appearances across three levels (mostly at Double-A). He's 0-5 with a 4.05 ERA in those appearances and carries a 5.06 ERA at Double-A. Possessing elite swing-and-miss stuff, he's struck out 58 batters in 32.0 innings. 

Per his MLB.com prospect profile:

While he sat around 93-94 mph as an amateur, the 6-foot-4 lefty started being around 95-96 mph, touching higher, with his heater after adding muscle in the offseason. The pitch has some sink to it as well and helped Tiedemann force healthy amounts of ground-ball contact. That said, his mid-80s, diving changeup has become arguably his best pitch with the way it generates whiffs, and that helped him limit righties to a .153 average in 2022. His low-80s, sweeping slider shows plus potential, though it needs to be a little more consistent to give Tiedemann his true third weapon.

Beyond being difficult to touch, Tiedemann’s control should continue to improve as he gains experience in his delivery, which includes some long levers and a lower arm slot.

At the major league level, the Blue Jays are currently in possession of the second wild card spot in the American League. They are 1.0 game ahead of the Seattle Mariners and Texas Rangers, who are tied for third.

The Blue Jays will play the Yankees on Tuesday night.

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Brady Farkas
BRADY FARKAS

Brady Farkas is a baseball writer for Fastball on Sports Illustrated/FanNation and the host of 'The Payoff Pitch' podcast which can be found on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Videos on baseball also posted to YouTube. Brady has spent nearly a decade in sports talk radio and is a graduate of Oswego State University. You can follow him on Twitter @WDEVRadioBrady. 

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