Is today your birthday? Happy birthday! And happy 31st birthday to current O’s right-hander Austin Voth. Hopefully his fellow players are aware enough to vote him in as an All-Star reserve. (Dubroff does Elias a solid by not mentioning the Mike Yastrzemski-for-Tyler Herb swap.)Īustin Hays’ Orioles teammates believe he’s deserving of an All-Star nod: ‘It’s been a special first half’ - Baltimore SunĪustin Hays has been pretty darn sensational this year. Rich Dubroff looks back on Mike Elias trade history as O's general manager, and you won’t be surprised to learn that most of them have turned out quite nicely. It feels like this article could also use the perspective of an O’s beat writer, but The Athletic in its infinite wisdom laid him off last week. Keith Law offers his thoughts on the Orioles’ promotion of Westburg. Orioles to call up infield prospect Jordan Westburg, per source: What he brings to Baltimore - The Athletic Jackson Holliday edges out De La Cruz for the top spot in MLB Pipeline’s updated rankings. Oh, and if things weren’t already awesome enough for the Orioles, guess which team now has the #1 prospect in baseball again? Yeah, you know it. Updated Top 100 Prospects list for June 2023 - MLB.com And this headline doesn’t even mention Anthony Santander, who both hit a homer and robbed one. There were almost too many Orioles heroes to count yesterday. Linksīradish barrels through Mariners lineup, Bemboom gets key hit, Bautista gets redemption (updated) - Blog
And now Westburg is on hand to join them. Elly De La Cruz, the #1 prospect in baseball by some rankings who is 17 games in to his big league career, will face off against Adley Rutschman and Gunnar Henderson, who both held the title of #1 prospect at various points last year. The Reds are sort of like the 2022 Orioles - a recently moribund franchise that has transformed into a successful, fun, young team filled with athletic, exciting prospects.
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The Birds’ next three games against Cincinnati will be a must-watch, something that hasn’t been said about an O’s/Reds series since the 1970 Fall Classic. But that bat has the potential to play anywhere. It’s not immediately clear what position Westburg will mainly play, or if he’ll simply rotate around the diamond as he’d been doing at Norfolk (33 starts at short, 18 at third base, six at second base, and even five starts in right field). The ice-cold bats of middle infielders Jorge Mateo and Adam Frazier may well have played a role in their decision, too. It seems they’ve finally come to the conclusion that he has nothing left to prove in the minors. The Orioles, perhaps not wanting to disrupt a big league roster that has enjoyed plenty of success so far, have resisted the urge to call up Westburg until now. 295/.372/.567 with 18 home runs in 67 games for Triple-A Norfolk this year, following a half-season with the Tides in 2022 in which he OPS’ed. Westburg has appeared big league ready for quite some time now, batting. And the organization’s pipeline of young talent continues to burst at the seams, bringing yesterday’s news that much-hyped infield prospect Jordan Westburg will make his major league debut for the Orioles tonight. They once again boast the third-best record in baseball. 500 for the fourth time this year, securing a series win over the Mariners with a well-played, 3-2 victory in Sunday’s rubber game. The vibes are impeccable in Birdland right now. If there’s anyone reading this who is not already an Orioles fan, well.climb aboard the bandwagon! There’s plenty of room.
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