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Baseball fans in Iowa should already be familiar with Peyton Williams, but they may not be familiar with the nickname he picked up recently.Williams is one of the most decorated high school players from central Iowa in recent memory who made a big impact in three seasons at the University of Iowa. He was a three-time first-team all-state selection for Johnston, where he helped the Dragons win a state title in 2017. He was the state's top-ranked senior in 2019 when he was named Iowa High School Baseball Coaches Association Player of the Year and Iowa Prep Baseball Report Player of the Year.At Iowa, where he was a Collegiate Baseball Freshman All-American in 2020 and a first-team all-Big Ten pick in 2022, he had a .317 career batting average and hit 21 home runs and 36 doubles in 107 games.The Toronto Blue Jays drafted him in the seventh round of the 2022 MLB draft. After hitting .268 with 27 home runs in three minor league seasons Williams — a sizeable first baseman at 6-foot-5 and 255 pounds — is gaining attention as a top-30 prospect in Toronto's system and for having one of the game's best nicknames. “We’ve been high on P-Willy for a while,” Blue Jays director of player development Joe Sclafani told mlb.com recently. No, not that nickname. In that same mlb.com article, Williams said he wore a T-shirt promoting a hometown neighbor's business once to the ballpark, a move that spawned the nickname "The Iowa Meat Truck."“I wore The Iowa Meat Truck (shirt) to a meeting and the coaches loved it,” Williams told reporter Keegan Matheson. "They said that every time I hit a double or a home run, I’ve just got to honk the horn. Our announcer up in Vancouver was wondering what the celebration was, so I told him and he loved it. Then, whenever something happened, he’d try to work it in there. My neighbor back home loves it. He’s loving it.” Matheson's story says Williams will likely play most of 2025 at Double-A New Hampshire. And his prospect profile says his ETA in the majors is 2026.Photos of Peyton Williams