Jordan Groshans

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Biographical Information[edit]

Shortstop Jordan Groshans was the top selection by the Toronto Blue Jays in the 2018 amateur draft, with the 12th overall pick, out of a high school in Texas. His high school teammate, Adam Kloffenstein, was the Jays' third-round pick that same year.

After signing with Toronto, he began his professional career with the GCL Blue Jays in 2018, and was promoted to the Bluefield Blue Jays of the Appalachian League before the end of the season. Altogether, he hit .296/.353/.446 in 48 games in a fine debut. In 2019, he played 23 games for the Lansing Lugnuts of the Midwest League, and was off to a great start, hitting .337, when he was felled by a season-ending foot injury in May. Thus, the forced pause caused by the Coronavirus pandemic in 2020 came at a bad time, as he was finally ready to get a first full professional season under his belt. If there was one small bright spot, it was that as one of the team's top prospects, he was invited to spend the season at the Blue Jays' alternate training site, where he could work out with players much more advanced than him in his development. He was then invited to major league spring training in 2021, although he was still considered a couple of seasons away from being able to actually make his big league debut.

He spent the 2021 season in the Double-A Northeast, with the New Hampshire Fisher Cats, where he batted .291/.367/.450 in 75 games. He hit 23 doubles, scored 46 runs and drove in 40, while splitting his time between shortstop and third base. In 2022, he was in AAA with the Buffalo Bisons, also appearing in a few games with the Dunedin Blue Jays of the Florida State League on a rehabilitation assignment. In 67 games at Buffalo, he hit .250 with 1 homer and 24 RBIs. On August 2nd, he was traded to the Miami Marlins in return for two major league relievers, Anthony Bass and Zach Pop. He made his major league debut with the Marlins on September 13th, starting at third base against the Philadelphia Phillies and going 0 for 3 in a 2-1 loss. He hit .262 in 17 games with Miami, with 1 home run, 9 runs and 2 RBIs.

Jordan spent all of 2023 with the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp, the Marlins' top farm club in the AAA International League. He played 125 games, splitting his time between third base and first base, and hit .244/.339/.330 with 6 homers and 60 RBIs. At the start of spring training in 2024, the Yankees claimed him off waivers from Miami and had him start the year with the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders, still in the International League. He did not hit much in 17 games, being at .228 with 1 homer and 7 RBIs and at the end of April was demoted to the Somerset Patriots of the AA Eastern League, where he again failed to get his bat started. In 33 games there, he was hitting .234 and slugging an anemic .262. On June 23rd, he was traded to the Oakland Athletics in return for 3B J.D. Davis, who had just been designated for assignment, but who had a track record of success with the bat in recent years.

His brother Jaxx Groshans has been playing in the minors since 2019.

Further Reading[edit]

  • Jonathan Mayo: "Q&A: Groshans talks family, his power and more", mlb.com, March 8, 2022. [1]
  • Jordan McPherson (Miami Herald): "To maximize chance to crack roster, this Marlins player is learning a new position", Yahoo! News, March 3, 2023. [2]

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