Every few days, the Orioles bring top prospect Adley Rutschman over from their minor league site at Twin Lakes Park to their major league facility across town in Sarasota, Florida, and give him a taste of what it’s like.
On the other side of the baseball world in Arizona, the two players selected after him in the 2019 draft — Kansas City Royals shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. and Chicago White Sox slugger Andrew Vaughn — are playing far more often and forcing conversations to make their teams.
That’s no cause for any kind of second-guessing a selection that landed the Orioles one of the consensus top prospects in baseball, a catcher that has generated lofty expectations for when he arrives in the majors by virtue of his talent and track record in college.