DL Hall, the Orioles’ top pick in the 2017 draft and one of the top left-handed pitching prospects in all of baseball, was finally getting his 2019 season back on track at High-A Frederick when an oblique injury ended his season a month early.
The wait to get back on the mound in real games proved to be much longer than he could have ever imagined as the coronavirus pandemic wiped out the 2020 minor league season and cost prospects like Hall valuable development time. He would have likely spent all of 2020 at Double-A Bowie, putting the 22-year-old left-hander on the cusp of the big leagues at Triple-A Norfolk this year.