What's the latest on Jordan Groshans? Call it the Pentecost-effect, but these DL stints that seem to linger on scare me a little.

From Sportsnet

"Jordan Groshans suffered a stress reaction in his foot and his season is on hold until the problem fully clears up"

Obviously, not ideal but caution is better than aggravating the issue.

2080 baseball posted reports in June on 7 Dunedin players, from May viewings:
https://2080baseball.com/2019-scouting-report-library/

Al Kirk with a June spotlight plus a whole bunch of kids at extended, including Kloff, Orelvis, Hiraldo:

https://2080baseball.com/2019-prospect-spotlights/

Borucki rehabbing for Bluefield. 3 ip, 0 base runners, 6ks. Would be great to see him back in the majors before long.

That's great, glevin. 

Borucki being followed by Pardinho who has gone two hitless innings so far.

Pardinho finished up with 4 scoreless innings

Nice that our injured pitchers are recovering.

With so many of our top prospects graduating to the bigs, where does our system rank at the moment?  Going by MLB pipeline for convenience, we've seen Vladdy, Jansen, Thornton, Pannone and Tellez moved off the list this year, with Biggio next in line.  Alford and Bichette could follow. 

The draft seems to have been a success, with perhaps some impact talent at the deadline, but that's a lot of prospects graduating close together.  I can't recall the last time we had a team with so many promising rookies. 

I think we'll have to see how things shake out. I imagine we're still a top 10 farm system, possibly top 5, but it'll really depend on the back half of this year. We've had some players take a step back, but we've had lots of players take a step forward. However most of those steps forward are at the low levels. I can't imagine anyone beats us in overall catching prospect depth though.

Top ten seems realistic to me. 

no doubt about the catching, and that's with the retirement of Pentacost, and the graduation of Jansen.   I barely knew either Kirk or Moreno before last year started, and while they excelled, it's a long way from rookie ball to full season baseball.  Riley Adams and Reese McGuire both look like quality backups, and Hagen Danner was a 2nd rounder in 2017 out of HS, so perhaps he still has time to get his hitting going. 

If we sign our 9th rounder, Phillip Clarke, things only get better. 

If Stroman and Giles and Smoak get traded, you would have to think the Jays would be in the top 10, even if they only receive a couple of B/B+ and a couple of C/C+ prospects in return.

Last time with so much promise from kids was probably around 1995... Rank in brackets with position
21 years old: Shannon Stewart (72-CF/LF), Tomas Perez (IF)
22: Shawn Green (6-RF), Alex Gonzalez (8-SS)
23: Carlos Delgado (1B - lost rookie status previous season but just 161 PA pre-1995 otherwise would've been top 3 or so), Howard Battle (3B)
24: Sandy Martinez (77-CA)

Pretty decent group, organization farm system ranked #3 at the time. (Chris Carpenter in the minors, but wouldn't get to the bigs until 2 years later for example).

In 1996 the system dropped to #7, #8 the following year (when Halladay finally was on the top 100), #17 going into 1998 (despite Halladay & Vernon Wells plus unranked Felipe Lopez, Jay Gibbons, Orlando Hudson, Michael Young, Josh Phelps, Cesar Izturis, Kelvim Escobar, and others being in the system).

So system rank isn't everything by any stretch, nor is having a ton of talent a #1 sign of the future (1995 was 1 year into the purgatory of a long stretch of no playoff appearances).

With Vlad, Biggio, Jansen, and possibly Bichette gone from prospects lists after this season, where the Jays rank will depend on how highly evaluators view the team's younger prospects (Groshans, Pardinho, Kloffenstein, Martinez, Hiraldo, Kirk, Moreno, Conine, etc) in addition to what the team gets back in trades. Pearson will be the obvious top prospect. The rest of the higher upside talent is a bit further away, which might impact how highly evaluators will rank them. It should still be a pretty good system either way, but a bit dry in the upper minors (again, depending on what the trade returns look like).

Jays ranking also kinda depends on weak or strong other teams systems are. Which is something that we have little clue about.

John, we don't even need to go that far back. 2011-2012 we were perceived very highly. This was of course when we had Gose, Drabek, Lawrie, Stewart, D'Arnaud, Arencibia, Marisnick, and then drafted Sanchez, Syndergaard, McGuire, Wojciechowski, McGuire, Nicolino. It's actually quite incredible how few assets ended up panning out for us out of all that.

Nice game from Jon Harris for NH tonight, 5 innings 1 run, 5 K's no BB's. Since starting his AA stint 1 for 15, Logan Warmoth is 6 for 19 with as many walks as strikeouts. Josh Palacios is hitting .305 with 6 steals in his last 18 games.

Absolutely dominating game for Joey Murray with Dunedin - 6 innings, with only 2 hits, no walks and 12 K's. He now has an ERA of 1.71, WHIP of 0.97 and a K/BB ratio of 59/13 since his promotion to advanced A ball, 38/6 K/BB in his last 5 games. Maybe he gets a shot at AA this year. Good appearances again for Brad Wilson and Jackson Rees in the Dunedin bullpen. Wilson now has an ERA of 1.67, WHIP of 0.74 and 41/6 K/BB ratio, while Rees is 0.26, 0.71 and 56/7.

Davidi writes that the Jays are getting close to signing Dasan Brown.

And with Vandy winning the CWS last night, Clarke is available to be signed as well.