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Friday Bird Droppings: Where the Orioles earned some end-of-season honors

Good morning, Camden Chatters.

As miserable as the 2021 season was for the Orioles as a team, it’s worth remembering that there were a few individual standouts who made the club eminently more watchable.

Ryan Mountcastle, in his first full year in the majors, lived up to every bit of offensive potential he’d shown in the minor leagues and then some. Mountcastle shook off a slow first month of the season to develop as a middle-of-the-order threat for the Orioles, bashing a team-leading 33 home runs — tops among all MLB rookies — and 89 RBIs while posting a .