The Toronto Blue Jays’ prospect pipeline got significantly heftier on Monday night after the club selected a pair of 6-foot-6 right-handed pitchers on day one of MLB’s annual (Rule 4) amateur draft. Taken with the 11th overall pick was Alek Manoah, a beefy hard-thrower out of West Virginia University, while in the second round the Jays selected high schooler Kendall Williams from Florida’s IMG Academy.



In Manoah, they get a power pitcher that amateur scouting director Steve Sanders says had “blossomed” in his junior year with the Mountaineers, and who ESPN’s Keith Law tweeted was “a coup” for the club and “the best college pitcher in the draft class.”



Manoah split time between starting and relief in his previous two years, but the Blue Jays are confident that he’ll be able to start. “We see him as a big strong durable guy who has the chance to take the ball every five days in a major league...