Pick a day down at the Orioles’ secondary camp site in Bowie, and there’s likely to be a pitching prospect starting the intrasquad game who has a claim to be part of the next great Orioles rotation.
There are the crown jewels (former first-round draft picks Grayson Rodriguez and DL Hall), the more advanced prospects (Dean Kremer, Michael Baumann and Bruce Zimmermann) and recent trade acquisitions (Kyle Bradish and Kevin Smith).
The site is ostensibly for keeping major league depth players ready to help the Orioles in the way at Triple-A team would in normal years. But for the club’s top prospects who are part of the 60-man pool, the work being done to keep their development on track has been productive in all the ways it needs to be, director of pitching Chris Holt said.