When new Orioles prospect Garrett Stallings was about 7 years old, around the same age he answered “pro baseball player” on a homework question asking what he wanted to be when he grew up, he went to his first game at a Major League Baseball stadium. He watched the Orioles play at Camden Yards.
Stallings’ grandfather was originally from Baltimore, and Stallings grew up in Chesapeake, Virginia, not far from where the Norfolk Tides, the Orioles’ Triple-A affiliate since 2007, play. Last week, Stallings joined the organization as one of two pitching prospects acquired from the Los Angeles Angels for shortstop José Iglesias, putting him on a path to soon call Norfolk’s Harbor Park Stadium and Camden Yards home.