Going into the 2024 season, there was not much reason to know anything about Brandon Young unless you were very, perhaps even unhealthily, invested in the Orioles farm system.. The 6’6” righty was originally an undrafted free agent signing by the team after the shortened five-round 2020 draft. In his second pro season, he suffered an elbow injury that wiped him out for more than a year. Young worked his way back from that surgery to pitch his way into the Jim Palmer Orioles Minor League Pitcher of the Year award for 2024.
Not a single mainstream prospect list had Young listed on it when the 2024 season began.