![]() ![]() Either way it is an exciting development that could lead to the Orioles having another top 10 prospect in baseball entering the 2023 season.Ĭadyn Grenier –. 817 OPS and 123 wRC+ despite a serious two week slump, since he is a polished 23 year old player drafted out of college from a competitive school and he impressed in his time at spring training a few months ago. I see that as much more likely for his fellow infielder Westburg, who finished his time in AA with a. ![]() He doesn’t turn 21 until the end of the month and has put himself in a position where he could potentially force his way into a major league debut before the season ends. He also leads all Orioles prospects with at least 50 plate appearances in OPS (1.025), on-base percentage (.452), and is second in slugging percentage (.573) only trailing AAA Norfolk’s Jacob Nottingham. His 178 wRC+ leads all Orioles minor leaguers (by a lot) and was the second best in the Eastern League. In the end he walked (19.7%) more than he struck out (18.3%) for the Baysox all while matching his batting average (.312) and ISO (.261) from his dominant stint in A Delmarva to start 2021. He was already very young for AA and didn’t face a single pitcher younger than him in his time with Bowie and now becomes the youngest player in all of AAA by several months. Henderson didn’t give them much of a choice. The Orioles rewarded Gunnar by promoting both him and Jordan Westburg to AAA Norfolk on Monday which now places seven of the Orioles top nine prospects at AAA or above as the future gets closer and closer to the present. 500 with five extra base hits en route to earning a player of the week honor. He did strikeout seven times and only walk once this past week but I think you’ll take that when you hit almost. Henderson is the gift that keeps on giving for Orioles fans and executives alike. ![]() (You can discuss this on the BSL board here.) Also be sure to check out my threads on the message board that are tracking both pitching and hitting statistics for the Orioles top prospects. Hopefully this will help in keeping track of the progress of the prospects playing for the Norfolk Tide, Bowie Baysox, Aberdeen Ironbirds, and Delmarva Shorebirds. Every week I will highlight the three hottest and three coldest players in the Orioles minor league system from the previous week. Welcome to ‘Down on the Farm’, a minor league spin-off of my weekly article ‘3 Up, 3 Down’. ![]()
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