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Friday Bird Droppings: Ruminating on the Orioles’ loaded farm system

Good morning, Camden Chatters.

Yesterday was a quiet day for the MLB hot stove, as every day has been for the Orioles so far, so let’s turn our attention for a moment to the O’s farm system. In case you’d forgotten, it’s absolutely loaded with talent.

Baseball America unveiled its top 10 Orioles prospects list yesterday, as ranked by longtime O’s beat writer Jon Meoli, and it’s a stellar list of one gloriously talented youngster after another. Long gone are the days of threadbare Orioles systems in which the top 10 list would include low-upside players who amounted to organizational filler at best.