Throughout a summer with no blueprint for how to best serve the young players in their organization, Orioles executive vice president and general manager Mike Elias often noted that his concern for young hitters.
Elias said that he fretted most about how the loss of a vital minor league season would affect hitters who recently came out of high school.
In the case of 2019 second-round draft pick Gunnar Henderson, who got one of those coveted spots in the Orioles’ secondary camp at Bowie in the second week of August, the hope is that that experience not only mitigated some of those losses, but turned them into meaningful gains.