At early camp, next wave of top Orioles prospects prepare for 2023
Many of the Orioles' best young players are at major league camp. A still-impressive group is filling their void in early minor league camp.
With all of their top-10 prospects and a handful more promising young players under Brandon Hyde’s watch at major league camp, it might seem like the minor league early camp would be a depleted one. That’s anything but the case.
This year’s early minor league camp, which runs concurrent to major league spring training across town in Sarasota and features the top prospects not at big league camp, has quite a different look to it this year. So many of the tentpole prospects for the Orioles’ farm system are across town, and in their place, a new group of players are getting the extra work in with the coaches as they get a head start on preparing for the season.
“We’re always looking at the future,” director of player development Matt Blood said. “That’s always going to be the case. Now, the guys we thought were the future are there in big league camp and they’re either going to be on the major league team or really close, and the guys in early camp are going to get their chance in a year or so and we’ll have others in early camp. That’s just sort of our world that we live in, and it’s our job to make sure they are the future.”