The most ambitious trajectory would have had Orioles top prospect Adley Rutschman taking at-bats at Camden Yards barely more than a year after he was drafted last summer.
No one would have envisioned then that he’d be doing so as part of a summer training camp in July to prepare for a season that hasn’t started yet.
Still, the 2019 overall No. 1 draft pick has checked off a memory of a lifetime in the team’s intrasquad games as he was added to the camp roster Friday and took some at-bats with the big leaguers over the weekend.