KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Putting hyperfocus on any individual swing can lead to the type of pressure the Orioles have tried to avoid placing on Adley Rutschman, but there’s no avoiding it — not when all of Baltimore searches for a sign that Rutschman can find his footing at this level.
The top prospect in all of baseball has been in the majors for three weeks. He entered Saturday afternoon’s game against the Kansas City Royals with a .153 batting average and an OPS+ of just 32, with 100 being average. And yet, in his three games in Kansas City, the swings have deserved the intense scrutiny for how good they’ve looked.
Rutschman’s performance Saturday was the best of his three-week-old major league career, as he finished with three hits in the Orioles’ bounce-back 6-4 victory.
