{"id":654822,"date":"2026-03-31T17:23:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T17:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/654822\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T17:23:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T17:23:16","slug":"blue-jays-make-major-announcement-about-2025-first-round-draft-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/654822\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays make major announcement about 2025 first-round draft pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dunedin Blue Jays, the Class-A affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays, announced their season-opening roster March 31.<\/p>\n<p>Among the big names on the roster are two former first-round draft picks: shortstop JoJo Parker (2025) and pitcher Brandon Barriera (2022).<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebiglead.com\/blue-jays-pitcher-carted-off-field-after-scary-injury\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Blue Jays pitcher carted off field after scary injury;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Blue Jays pitcher carted off field after scary injury&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Blue Jays pitcher carted off field after scary injury<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For Parker, the eighth overall pick in the 2025 MLB Draft, it\u2019s his first professional assignment after finishing his senior season at Purvis (Mississippi) High School.<\/p>\n<p>Barrirera, a 22-year-old left-hander, is repeating the level for the third season after losing time to injuries the last two years.<\/p>\n<p>More to come on this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dunedin Blue Jays, the Class-A affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays, announced their season-opening roster March 31.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2378],"tags":[5,377,2554,10384,5194,4,83713,282,70,2553],"class_list":{"0":"post-654822","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-blue-jays","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-blue-jays","10":"tag-bluejays","11":"tag-brandon-barriera","12":"tag-dunedin-blue-jays","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-professional-assignment","15":"tag-toronto","16":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","17":"tag-torontobluejays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116324951873789625","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}