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Heston Kjerstad, Orioles’ second overall draft pick in 2020, ‘finally back to swinging the bat’ after heart issue | NOTES

PHILADELPHIA — About a month ago, Orioles executive vice president and general manager Mike Elias announced that Heston Kjerstad, Baltimore’s second overall pick from the 2020 draft, would begin working out at the club’s Sarasota, Florida, complex. That work has progressed to the batter’s box.

A slugging outfielder out of the University of Arkansas, Kjerstad posted a video Tuesday of him taking swings on the backfields of the Orioles’ Ed Smith Stadium complex. The 22-year-old has yet to play for a Baltimore affiliate because of a bout of myocarditis (heart inflammation), preventing the left-handed power that captured the Orioles’ interest from being displayed in their farm system.