In the middle of their series against the Red Sox, the Toronto Blue Jays announced a couple of minor transactions deep in their farm system.
According to the MiLB transactions log, DSL Blue Jays Blue activated right-hander Angel Ynfante from the 60-day injured list.
At the same time, right-hander Tomoya Kinjo was assigned to DSL Blue Jays Red from DSL Blue Jays Blue.
Ynfante, a 21-year-old, hasn't appeared in a game for the organization at all this year, making his activation a real milestone even at this low a level, simply getting back to actual competition after such a long absence.
Kinjo, 23, signed with Toronto back in April, and his results so far have been genuinely rough.
Across 10 games, six of them starts, Kinjo is winless at 0-4, with just 14 strikeouts against 30 walks over 15 innings pitched.
That kind of walk rate produces a staggering 3.13 WHIP, numbers that suggest real command issues at the most fundamental level of professional baseball.
Why moves this far down the system still get tracked
Reassignments between DSL affiliates typically reflect roster balancing or a fresh look at a struggling player rather than anything dramatic, giving a pitcher like Kinjo a change of scenery within the same complex.
At the complex league level, struggles like Kinjo's are common and often part of a much longer development curve rather than a definitive judgment on a player's future.
It's a bit like moving a struggling new employee to a different team within the same office, hoping a different environment sparks better results without giving up on the hire entirely.
Does a lateral move like this actually help a pitcher working through significant control issues, or does he simply need more repetitions regardless of which DSL roster he's on?
For now, both moves represent the routine, constant transaction activity happening well below the radar of Toronto's big league roster, even during a series as high-stakes as this one against Boston.
Do these kinds of low-level DSL transactions matter to how you follow the Blue Jays organization?
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