I am doing a series where I offer up three fantasy baseball questions for every MLB team. I look at under-the-radar stats, playing time projections, projected roles, and off-season news to try and highlight the issues facing you in your 2025 fantasy baseball drafts. We’ll do this thing in divisional order, and this time around I’ll consider three questions for the 2025 Toronto Blue Jays.
3 Fantasy Baseball Questions for the 2025 Toronto Blue Jays
Will Bo Bichette Bounce Back?
Talk about a sudden fall for Bo Bichette. It’s an easy 10-round decrease from his fantasy peak, but it’s important to remember that Bichette is still in the prime of his career. The shortstop heads into his free-agent season at age 27. But can he bounce back?
In fairness to Bichette, he wasn’t healthy last year as he played in just 81 games. Bichette failed to produce as he hit .225 with just four home runs, five stolen bases, and 31 RBI. That came a year after he hit .306 in 135 games with 20 home runs and 73 RBI. Considering he’s fully healthy entering 2025, there’s no reason why Bichette can’t return to those levels. For as bad as last year looked, Bichette didn’t lose all his talent or forget how to play baseball.
Prior to 2024, Bichette had three sustained years of success. What we do have to keep an eye on though, is that after 25 stolen bases in 2021, Bichette has seemingly ceased running. With that being said, there’s nothing to stop him from getting to 10 stolen bases with 20 home runs. Bichette will be batting in the middle of Toronto’s lineup once again, so he should be in prime RBI and runs-scored territory. And if he does leadoff, there are benefits to that as well.
Does Orelvis Martinez Have a Path to Playing Time?
Right now in the starting lineup, it’s Ernie Clement standing in the way of Orelvis Martinez. Nothing against Clement, but he’s a utility player who shouldn’t block a prospect.
There have never been questions surrounding Martinez’s bat, but the problem is that his glove might hold him back. At some point though, Toronto should get Martinez’s offense into the lineup and give him a chance to show what he can do at the big league level.
In 74 games at Triple-A last year, Martinez hit a solid .267 with the rest of his production catching our attention. Martinez continued a strong track record of minor league production with 17 home runs, 49 RBI, and 54 runs scored. At this point, there’s nothing more for Martinez to do in the minor leagues. So can Toronto live with some issues in the field?
If Martinez gets a full slate of at-bats, he could be a Rookie of the Year contender.
Does Max Scherzer Have Anything Left?
With a career that could potentially end in Cooperstown, Max Scherzer doesn’t have anything left to prove. But we know that’s not the case as Scherzer isn’t going to go out the way last year ended.
Things have been rough for Scherzer in the last few years as he’s begun to show his age and health issues have been popping up. When he’s been on the mound though, while not elite, Scherzer has pitched to solid results. In 2023, it was a 3.77 ERA with 10.26 strikeouts per nine innings while he followed that up with a 3.95 ERA last year. His strikeouts did drop to 8.31 per nine innings, but the sample size was small (43.1 innings) and he wasn’t at full strength.
At this point, it’s almost a guarantee that we can’t expect Scherzer to remain healthy all season. The good news is that his draft day price reflects that. Granted it’s just 5.2 innings, but Scherzer has looked good so far this spring. At this point, there’s no risk in drafting Scherzer, and he’s still better than a lot of other options out there.
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