Baltimore Orioles top prospect Adley Rutschman won’t break camp with the big league squad, destined to begin the 2020 season with either the High-A Frederick Keys or Double-A Bowie Baysox, but fans are getting a heavy dose of the future of the franchise before spring training games kick off this weekend.
The Orioles are going to struggle, responding to a second-straight 100+ loss season by slashing payroll to the 2nd lowest team payroll to start 2020 at $65 million, more than half of that being paid out to Chris Davis and Alex Cobb (combined -3.