Trey YESAVAGE: Emerging dynasty player

At this point of the season, applying your selection is probably not allowed because your fantasy season is over or the play -offs will only close.

But that does not mean that you cannot look ahead and ask who you should focus this season. One of those players who should have a very big target is Trey YESAVAGE from the Toronto Blue Jays.

This is a player who was only set up just over a year ago and entered 2025 after he had never thrown one pitch as a professional player. Today he could be an important member of Toronto staff during the late season.

So let’s take a few minutes to discuss the upcoming dynasty player Trey Yesavage.

Career statistics

Way to the show

The climb to the Majors has been fast for Trey Yesa drag, because he threw East Carolina at the university last year and only started his professional career this year.

During his three-year-old NCAA career, Yesavage appeared in 65 games and made 29 starts with a general era of 2.58 and a whip of 1,034. His first season as first -year students was spent on coming out of the pen when he appeared in 34 games and had a 4.50 ERA and 1,731 Whip. No large numbers, but he also had a speed of 15.6 k/9 – a glimpse of what would come.

As a second year, he went to the start rotation and made 14 starts in 16 performances. The move was a good when he went 7-1 with a 2.61 ERA and 1,000 Whip while hit 12.4 batters per nine. His junior season was just as good as he went 11-1 with a 2.03 ERA, 0.868 Whip and a speed of 14.0 k/9. The Blue Joys led those results to select YESOVAGE with the 20th general choice in last year’s design.

Don’t waste time

After he signed with the Jays last year, YESVAGE was not assigned to the Rookie Level team, so he only started his professional career this season.

Starting at Low-A Dunedin he went 3-0 with a 2.43 ERA and 55 strikeouts in 33 1/3 innings in seven starts. The Blue Jays then promoted him to High-A Vancouver. In four Starts with 17.1 Innings, Yesavage placed a 1.56 ERA with 33 strikeouts in 17 1/3 innings. Another promotion followed and landed him in Double-A New Hampshire.

The results there were not as flashy as he placed a 4.50 ERA, but he spent 46 batters in 30 innings work. After eight games (seven starts) he was promoted again and moved to Triple-A Buffalo. As was the case with his previous stops, Yesavage continued to dismantle Hitters, this time up to an amount of 13.5 per nine innings because he had 26 strikeouts in 17.1 innings to deal with a 3.63 ERA. He made four starts and two relief performances before Toronto decided to take him to the parent club.

Heck of a debut

The lanky right-handed made his Major League debut on September 15, and what a debut it was when he switched nine batters in his five innings work. The nine strikeouts set a Blue Jays record for a pitcher who made his debut and surpassed the eight strikeouts that Trent Thornton had in 2019.

Trey Yesavage all allowed one point on three hits and two free runs. Making the beginning even more impressive were the 19 swinging strikes he recorded and tied him for the fifth most swings and missions in one game since the start of the Statcast era in 2008.

The tools

• 4-Seam Fastball (46% use)

In his start against Tampa Bay, Yesavage contained his fastball of four seams almost half the time, and although he did not overwhelm the rays with the field, it was effective because Tampa Bay only gathered two hits against the field, both are singles. The field was on average 94.6 MPH, which is consistent with what he has thrown throughout his career. On average, the 4-seizer moves four centimeters to a right-handed batter with a drop of 11 inches. For comparison, the competition average is eight centimeters of horizontal movement and 15 centimeters drop.

He may not have as much horizontal movement as the average pitcher, but the fact that he gets less drop makes it difficult for batters to get on top of the ball and ride it.

In the future, his 4-seizer should be effective. Standing on 6-foot-4, he has a high release point and a good backspin on the ball, allowing him to keep the field in the zone. If there is one red flag when it comes to the Fastball, it is the fact that he does not yet have great control of the field (or all his fields). During his time in minors this year, his running speed was 13% and rose to 28% when he reached Triple-A.

Although YESAVAGE threw his fastball 32 times in that first start, it also has two other pitches that it contains – the splitter and the slider. Against the rays, he threw the split finger 19 times in general, 13 against left-handed batters. The rays could not get a hit against the field and it produced an amazing 78.6% Whiff%. I will repeat that – it produced an amazing 78.6% Whiff%.

The rays ran 0-out-6 against his splitter with five strikeouts.

Thrown with an average speed of 84 km / h, it functions as a major change in the stairs of the Fastball while it offers almost 11 centimeters of horizontal break and 32 inch vertical drops. Despite the movement of the field, he actually does a good job for strikes when needed, while threw 42% of the time in the zone in his first start.

The slider, just like his Fastball and Splitter, was assessed by scouts at the age of 60 and the field turned out to be a good one against the rays. Batters went 1-out-6 against the slider with three strikeouts while they had a scent of 44.4%.

What makes his slider interesting is that it has a downward break instead of a sharp break on his glove side. In a sense, it is like his split on steroids because it comes faster in 5 mph.

In the past, Trey Yesavage has thrown a cutter and curve; He closed the cutter in Triple-A and did not pull him in his first outing. The curve can be used if it encounters more and more strikers, but in general it is its least effective pitch.

The verdict

I was able to add Trey Yesavage in two of my competitions for the season, and I am happy that I did that. I did not expect that he would fly through the Blue Jays system and make his MLB debut this year, but I fully expected that he would be in the Majors at some point after a dominant university career.

Yesavage took advantage of his time in East Carolina to develop his pitches and to learn how to mix them effectively and not only on his fastball trust to get outs. During his time in the minors, he fought on command problems, but he seemed to quickly solve the problem and go back to throwing strikes.

He also produces his fair share of ground balls thanks to the slider and split. The rays played in the game and in general had a ground ball rate of 55.6%, while it was 39.9% during his time in the minors.

At the moment the Blue Jays are in the air about how they will use yes provision. His next outing could be as a starter, it can be like a reliever. But before 2026 and then he will become a starter and you have to plan to add him to your staff. He will, without a doubt, hit a few bumps when batters get a better book about yes, but his advantage is great.

Thank you for reading and come back next week for the last episode of 2025 from emerging dynasty players.