If you put money last spring on Cedric Mullins busting out in 2021 to become not just the Orioles’ best player by a landslide, but also an All-Star starter and Baltimore’s first member of the 30-30 club, well, good on you, I say.
Mullins came into spring training a .225 career hitter in 115 MLB games with dismaying splits: .251/.305/.394 as a lefty and .147/.250/.189 righty. His minor league numbers were not all that much better: a .291 average with 23 home runs as a lefty and .204 average with just six homers as a righty.