Welcome to the Rookie Roundup, a weekly look-in on baseball’s best and most interesting first-year players. Last week, we dove deep on how an impressive group of rookie pitchers have buoyed the Los Angeles Dodgers amid a rash of injuries. Next up is a look at how the Baltimore Orioles dipped into their prospect pool for roster reinforcements.
We’re less than a week removed from a trade deadline that was something of a letdown. A big reason for that feeling of dissatisfaction is that most of the teams with a deep well of prospects to cash in for established stars ultimately decided against such a strategy. And no club embodied that tactic more than the Orioles.
