On June 5, the Orioles got some bad news: No. 1 pitching prospect Grayson Rodriguez, who was in the middle of a white-hot season, would be out until September with a lat strain. Just a day later, good news galloped to the rescue: two of the system’s highest-ranked infield prospects, Gunnar Henderson and Jordan Westburg, had made the jump from Double-A Bowie to Triple-A Norfolk.
At the time, Henderson was playing so well that Camden Chat felt obligated to inaugurate the ALL CAPS GUNNAR HENDERSON nickname to express the excitement. GUNNAR would play just 65 games in Triple-A, OPS’ing .