I think I am similar to many Orioles fans in that I get a little too excited about hot prospects that come up through Baltimore’s minor league system. Who knows what has made us this way. Maybe it’s knowing that we’ll never compete with the big spenders for top free agent talent, making drafting and developing players necessary. Maybe it’s been years of watching our prospects fail in Baltimore and succeed elsewhere, or be traded away at the deadline for a middling veteran. Maybe someday Mike Elias and company can cure us of this affliction.
In 2018, the prospect that Birdland got excited about, perhaps too excited, was Cedric Mullins.