He’s not the player Orioles fans tune in to see. That would be Adley Rutschman, or perhaps Ryan Mountcastle, or Cedric Mullins, or Trey Mancini.
But the player who is most likely to grab a viewer’s attention when he comes into the game? It’s hard to come up with a better fit on the current Orioles roster than Felix Bautista.
You can’t miss him. He’s credited as being 6-5 and 190 pounds on Baseball Reference, but that’s laughable. Bautista might be taller than that. He’s certainly heavier than that. And when he comes into the game, batters might not gulp in fear, but they’re not breathing a sigh of relief, either.