Orioles Writer Notes How The Team’s Future Has Arrived

The Baltimore Orioles are finally a competitive team.

Well, they were one last year when they finished with an 83-79 record.

Now, they are a bona fide playoff contender: they are 57-36 and just one game behind the Tampa Bay Rays for the AL East lead.

Talk about an impressive turnaround: this is a franchise that was 52-110 as recently as 2021.

Now, the O’s have some of the best hitters in baseball.

Their lineup has taken a huge step forward with some impressive prospects getting the call in the last two years.

Orioles insider Jacob Calvin Meyer highlighted how the future, in Baltimore, is now and is here.

“An Orioles lineup featuring Gunnar Henderson, Adley Rutschman, Colton Cowser and Jordan Westburg takes on the Dodgers today,” he tweeted.

An Orioles lineup featuring Gunnar Henderson, Adley Rutschman, Colton Cowser and Jordan Westburg takes on the Dodgers today pic.twitter.com/0gwrkJvIut

— Jacob Calvin Meyer (@jcalvinmeyer) July 18, 2023

All those names were on the top-100 prospects list last year and this season, too.

Rutschman was the consensus top prospect in baseball entering 2022; and Henderson took his place this year.

Both of them have graduated and are mashing day in and day out.

The best of all is that there are still talented prospects in the high minors looking for a chance: Coby Mayo and Heston Kjerstad are two of them, for example.

The Orioles have Tyler Wells and Kyle Bradish, but if they can get their hands on one or two impact starters at the deadline, they could leapfrog the Rays before the season expires and would turn into true World Series contenders.

They have the trade pieces, they just need to find a way to maximize them.

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