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Beneath is an evaluation of the prospects within the farm system of the Baltimore Orioles. Scouting reviews have been compiled with data supplied by business sources in addition to my very own observations. That is the fifth 12 months we’re delineating between two anticipated reduction roles, the abbreviations for which you’ll see within the “place” column beneath: MIRP for multi-inning reduction pitchers, and SIRP for single-inning reduction pitchers. The ETAs listed typically correspond to the 12 months a participant needs to be added to the 40-man roster to keep away from being made eligible for the Rule 5 draft. Guide changes are made the place they appear acceptable, however we use that as a rule of thumb.
A fast overview of what FV (Future Worth) means might be discovered right here. A a lot deeper overview might be discovered right here.
The entire ranked prospects beneath additionally seem on The Board, a useful resource the location provides that includes sortable scouting data for each group. It has extra particulars (and up to date TrackMan information from numerous sources) than this text and integrates each crew’s listing so readers can evaluate prospects throughout farm programs. It may be discovered right here.
Different Prospects of Word
Grouped by sort and listed so as of desire inside every class.
Fringe 40-Man Varieties
Aron EstradaUTIL
Edgar PortesRHP
Edwin AmparoINF
Carter YoungerSS
Estrada, 20, is a bodily, medium-framed, switch-hitting Venezuelan prospect who posted a 133 wRC+ at Low-A in 2024 earlier than a late-season promotion to Aberdeen. Whereas I’ve doubts in regards to the sustainability of his offense given the size of his swings, Estrada’s largest challenge is his protection. He doesn’t at present have the arms or actions to play the infield in any respect, and he would possibly quickly be restricted solely to left discipline. It is a prospect the place my visible eval is an effective bit decrease than no matter a mannequin would doubtless spit out given Estrada’s TrackMan information. Portes was a 40 FV on final 12 months’s listing as a free, projectable righty with below-average stuff. His stuff has plateaued and he’s sitting about 90 mph this spring, however the best way he’s constructed and strikes provides the 22-year-old Dominican an opportunity so as to add velo as he matures. Amparo is a switch-hitting 20-year-old infielder whose construct, swing, and defensive skills evoke Abraham Toro. He’s mixing second and third base at Delmarva. Younger was a well-known excessive schooler who ended up at Vanderbilt because of perceived hit device threat. He hit nicely sufficient at Vandy to signal for $1.3 million when he was drafted in 2022, however he’s struggling to duplicate that in professional ball.
Huge and Tall
Kags gilliesRHP
Sebastian GongoraLHP
Yeiber CartayaRHP
Jared BeckLHP
Riley CooperLHP
Gillies is a 6-foot-8 righty who put up online game numbers at Tulane and has reached Double-A in a reduction capability as a professional. This man’s extension and launch peak each hover round seven toes. His fastball is as steep as a runaway truck ramp and he bends above-average sliders into the highest of the zone. He may very well be a misleading center reliever. Gongora sat 90-94 mph final 12 months at Louisville, and was 93-95 and touched 96 in his first outing of 2025. He has a misleading, quick arm motion and a good mid-80s breaking ball, the look of a lefty specialist. Cartaya is a 6-foot-5, 22-year-old Venezuelan righty who’s sitting 95 out the gate. A 40 athlete who has struggled with walks, Cartaya struck out 89 in 64.2 innings final 12 months. His breaking ball is fairly blunt and sluggish to interrupt, but it surely has good trying two-plane form and actually carried out in 2024. Beck is a seven-foot lefty out of Division-II Saint Leo College in Florida (you’ll be able to guess their nickname). He has amassed 173 strikeouts in 132.1 profession innings thanks largely to a superb slider, however he walked a batter per inning in 2024. Cooper, 23, is a 300-pound low-slot lefty with a superb slider and an upper-80s fastball.
Advanced Follows
Adriander MejíaC
Luis GuevaraSS
Félix Amparo2B/1B
DJ Layton, SS
Jemone NuelSS
Alexander RinconCF
Hector Campusano2B/OF
Kevin VelascoRHP
Mejía is a squat Venezuelan catcher who, in his second DSL season, led the Orioles down there in touch price at 84%. He’s quick to the ball, however isn’t particularly toolsy or projectable. He didn’t flip 18 till final August. Guevara, 19, is one other smaller up-the-middle DSL participant with good really feel for contact. Amparo minimize his strikeout price approach down from his 2023 DSL debut and Ok’d at an 8.2% clip in 2024 whereas slashing .313/.383/.503. He’s a free rotator whose finest rips appears nice, and whose worst ones look lengthy and disconnected. His defensive match is unsettled; he has performed everywhere in the infield however isn’t technically sound and he would possibly find yourself at 1B/OF. He’s an athletic sleeper with good bat velocity. Layton is a switch-hitting shortstop who signed out of a Charlotte highschool for $715,000 in final 12 months’s draft. He runs nicely and is an effective athlete who’ll must learn to hit. Nuel is an 18-year-old Jamaican shortstop who can actually choose it. Look ahead to him to chop his strikeouts in a 2025 DSL repeat; he Ok’d 30.3% of the time final 12 months. Rincon is an 18-year-old lefty hitting outfielder with actually whippy wrists and good bat velocity. His swing usually appears imbalanced; he would possibly get away if issues develop into extra fluid and linked. Campusano is a wispy multi-positional teenager who spent 2024 within the DSL. He’s a free, whippy athlete who must get stronger to wield the bat with nice authority, however his really feel for his age and measurement is fairly good. Velasco is a 6-foot-1 Venezuelan righty who posted a 0.88 WHIP in final 12 months’s DSL. He’ll throw high quality strikes with 93-94 mph fastballs and flash an above-average low-80s slider.
Exhausting-Throwing Righties
Carter RustadRHP
Zane BarnhartRHP
Simon LeandroRHP
Adrián DelgadoRHP
Rustad was a 2024 senior signal (he was first on the College of San Diego, then Missouri) within the fifteenth spherical who has had a velo spike on the onset of 2025 and altered his secondary stuff. He was sitting 92-93 on the finish of the 2024 faculty season, however was 94-96 in his first professional outings. His curveball has morphed right into a low-80s slider and his type of changeup appears prefer it’s morphed right into a splitter. The velo spike would possibly solely be because of Rustad’s transfer into the bullpen, and the way his arm power developments all through the season will dictate whether or not he strikes onto the principle part of the listing on subsequent replace. Barnhart will contact 98 and has a fairly good sweeper, and appears like he’s including a cutter. He may very well be a center reliever. Simon is a thin 6-foot-3 man who’ll contact 97, whereas Delgado was touching 98 in final 12 months’s DSL however walked a batter per inning.
Injured
Randy BerigüeteRHP
Carter BaumlerRHP
Justin ArmbruesterRHP
Berigüete is a 6-foot-4, 22-year-old Dominican righty who sits 95 and has a plus-flashing slider. A scarcity of command has result in A-ball walks and fewer Ok’s than his stuff would recommend. He started 2025 on the 60-day IL. Baumler was as soon as a high-profile highschool signee who has handled a litany of accidents as a professional, most just lately shoulder irritation. Armbruester is a cool cutter man who seemed like a low-leverage reliever when wholesome, however he left a current outing in numerous ache whereas grabbing at his armpit space.
System Overview
The very prime of this method is in a form of mini disaster, as Coby Mayo has been struggling since his huge league call-up, Samuel Basallo has had two consecutive seasons start with elbow soreness that has prevented him from catching, and Chayce McDermott is working his approach again from a lat pressure. Of the three, I suppose I’m most involved about Mayo, as a result of the margin for error his offense has a primary base-only man is so skinny, although clearly I’m not fearful sufficient to have moved him. The gamers with the most effective probability to leap into that higher group are a revamped Austin Overn and Elvin Garcia. If you wish to mission somewhat extra aggressively on, say, Griff O’Ferrall’s power, or Luis De León’s command, or Vance Honeycutt’s hit device, then you can argue these three are additionally in that blend.
There are 23 prospects with 40+ or higher FV grades right here, which is loads, and recall that Baltimore traded about 10 prospects away all through 2024, a number of of whom (Joey Ortiz, Jackson Baumeister, Price -chaceand extra) are huge leaguers or prospects of consequence.
The most important growth right here, as a result of it contrasts so sharply with Orioles farm programs of previous, is the sudden inflow of Latin American expertise. There have been two Orioles DSL groups final 12 months, they usually have been fairly deep. The crew has a model new Dominican Academy and is investing closely on this beforehand ignored market. These aren’t the Angelos Period Orioles.
Within the home draft, pitcher growth has been key for Baltimore, as plenty of these guys find yourself with new changeups, and/or some form of breaking ball alteration, normally transferring to a firmer pitch sort. The changeup dev (numerous them are splitters) is a really constant function all through the org, as is added velocity. The Orioles have additionally been situationally extra risk-tolerant within the draft room. They nonetheless take their share of O’Ferralls and Ethan Andersons, gamers whose faculty contact efficiency provides their profile extra stability, however Honeycutt and Jud Fabian are the antithesis of that archetype. Experimentation with totally different defensive positions (have a look at the flexibility up and down the org) helps guarantee numerous these guys will be capable to play a related complementary function within the huge leagues even when they fall wanting being true on a regular basis gamers.
Extra is coming. The Orioles have 5 of the primary 69 picks (19, 30, 31, 58, 69) in a 2025 draft that I consider to have a deeper second and third spherical than common. It means Baltimore can add high-upside pitching to the large league roster through commerce in the event that they’re inclined, after which reload within the draft (or vice versa). The crew did disappointingly little on the pitching entrance in the course of the offseason (the “We Tried” messaging round Corbin Burnes started final week) and already they’ve handled quite a few accidents rendering them skinny. If the Brewers’ commerce for Quinn Priester is any indication, desperation prices. The Orioles have grown their very own huge league-ready depth within the type of Brandon Younger and Cameron Weston, however they haven’t but developed the form of high-end influence that helps you scrap by way of October.
