The player who represents perhaps the most desired outcome of Adley Rutschman’s upcoming career visited Camden Yards this weekend.
Buster Posey, the San Francisco Giants catcher whose career includes a Rookie of the Year honor, an MVP and three World Series titles, doesn’t personally know Rutschman, the Oregon State catcher who ranks among the options to be the Orioles’ first overall pick when the Major League Baseball draft begins Monday. But he knows the impact an offensively talented backstop can have on a franchise.
“If you can put a guy behind the plate that can hit in the middle of the order,” Posey said, “it’s just obviously gonna lengthen your lineup so much.