Recent years have seen top 100 prospect lists stocked with Orioles. This season, even after Gunnar Henderson and Grayson Rodriguez graduated from prospect status and DL Hall’s trade to the Brewers, there are still five in Baseball America’s top 100: Jackson Holliday (No. 1), catcher Samuel Basallo (10), infielder Coby Mayo (25), and lefty-hitting outfielders Colton Cowser (34), and outfielder Heston Kjerstad (No. 41).
In terms of pure buzz, no one is unseating Holliday but an even younger player is coming pretty close: the 19-year-old catcher Basallo. As CC’s Tyler Young put it at the end of last season: Basallo’s recent rise through the prospect rankings has been nothing short of remarkable.