Magnolia alum Jordan Groshans traded to Miami Marlins

A Magnolia High School alum and a top prospect of the Toronto Blue Jays is on the move.

On Tuesday, just a couple hours before the Major League Baseball trade deadline, infielder Jordan Groshans was dealt to the Miami Marlins for a pair of righthanded relief pitchers in Anthony Bass and Zach Pop. The Blue Jays will also receive a player to be named later.

MLB.com already rates Groshans as the No. 4 prospect in the Marlins minor league system. He was the No. 80-rated prospect in MLB at the beginning of the 2022 season.

Groshans was drafted directly out of Magnolia High School in June 2018 as the No. 12 pick.

In 67 games at Triple-A Buffalo this season, the 22-year-old Groshans slashed .250/.348/.296 with a .644 OPS. He has one homer and 25 RBIs.

Groshans has played 218 games of minor league baseball since the summer of 2018. He has a minor-league career batting average of .283 with 15 homers and 120 RBIs. The former Bulldog battled injuries in the first couple seasons of his pro career. He played just 23 games in 2019.

Bass returns to Toronto after two seasons in Miami. He has a career ERA of 3.98 in his 11-year career.

Pop was a seventh round pick by the Dodgers in 2017 and made his MLB debut last April with Miami. He has pitched 741/3 innings in his MLB career with a 3.98 ERA.

Toronto is contending in the American League East. It entered Tuesday 57-45 and 12 games back of New York. The Blue Jays are three games up on Tampa Bay and Seattle in the wild card hunt. Starting this season, the top-three wild card teams advance to the playoffs

Groshans was drafted to Toronto four years ago alongside high school teammate Adam Kloffenstein, who is the No. 11 Blue Jays prospect. He is currently in Double-A.

During his senior year at Magnolia, Groshans was the Montgomery County Offensive Most Valuable Player. He batted .444, had 11 homers, 36 RBIs and 14 extra-base hits that season as the Bulldogs reached the regional quarterfinals.

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