{"id":763878,"date":"2026-07-28T18:36:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T18:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/763878\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T18:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T18:36:15","slug":"im-relentless-blue-jays-first-rounder-carlon-determined-to-be-a-big-leaguer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/763878\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I&#8217;m relentless&#8217;: Blue Jays first-rounder Carlon determined to be a big-leaguer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/toronto-blue-jays\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"toronto-blue-jays\" data-league=\"mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> first round draft-pick Cole Carlon has his sights set on becoming a major-leaguer as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Carlon, selected 39th overall by the Blue Jays in this year&#8217;s MLB draft, said he&#8217;s ready to do whatever the team needs to get to the major-league level.<\/p>\n<p>The six-foot-five left-handed pitcher spent three years at Arizona State, coming out of the bullpen in his freshman and sophomore years before making the transition to the starting rotation as a junior.<\/p>\n<p>He said that although his role changed heading into his junior year, his mindset didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m relentless,&#8221; Carlon said. &#8220;I&#8217;m going to try to get to two strikes as soon as I can &#8230; and go right at guys with my stuff.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Carlon said he took notes from Cy Young winner Tarik Skubal, who threw a bullpen at ASU in the off-season, as he embarks his own quest to reach the major leagues.<\/p>\n<p>Carlon&#8217;s upper-90s fastball and wipeout slider proved to be effective as a starter in his junior year, where he put up 133 strikeouts in 83.2 innings with a 14.3 K\/9, while issuing only 33 walks.<\/p>\n<p>He credits his ASU pitching coach and former Blue Jay Jeremy Accardo for a part in his success, who emphasized to him that Toronto is a great place to be.<\/p>\n<p>Carlon himself has never been to Canada, but he said he&#8217;s &#8220;looking forward to seeing what their culture is like and what the city is like.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Blue Jays first round draft-pick Cole Carlon has his sights set on becoming a major-leaguer as soon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2276],"tags":[5,2291,4,1586],"class_list":["post-763878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb-draft","tag-baseball","tag-major-league-baseball-draft","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-draft"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116999053870977893","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763878","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=763878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}