{"id":674805,"date":"2026-04-13T15:06:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T15:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/674805\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T15:06:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T15:06:55","slug":"blue-jays-jojo-parker-finding-his-rhythm-in-dunedin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/674805\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays&#8217; JoJo Parker finding his rhythm in Dunedin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/teams\/toronto_blue_jays\/29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a>  prospect who&#8217;s been gaining more attention is 19-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/players\/jojo_parker\/929366\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JoJo Parker<\/a>. Parker was drafted No. 8 overall in the 2025 draft.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>The left-handed shortstop is batting .286 with four doubles, seven RBI and an OBP of .444 across eight games with Dunedin. He&#8217;s transformed his game following initial struggles, pointing to his resiliency in his professional career.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s found his rhythm, recording an OPS of .947 across his last four games. Parker is ranked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/milb\/prospects\/bluejays\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">second<\/a> among Blue Jays prospects and has been demonstrating clutch hitting with high velocities (100 mph+).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Toronto Blue Jays prospect who&#8217;s been gaining more attention is 19-year-old JoJo Parker. Parker was drafted No.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2378],"tags":[5,377,2554,4,282,70,2553],"class_list":{"0":"post-674805","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-mlb","12":"tag-toronto","13":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","14":"tag-torontobluejays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116398026564930931","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674805","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=674805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}