When Buck Showalter was watching Yovani Gallardo get his innings pitching in a High-A minor league game at Twin Lakes Park on the Orioles’ day off Monday, he took notice of a 5-foot-8, speedy switch-hitting outfielder named Cedric Mullins.
The Orioles manager wanted a closer look, so he included Mullins – the Orioles’ 13th-round pick in last year’s draft out of Campbell University – on the team’s list of minor leaguers making the trip to Bradenton for the Orioles’ Grapefruit League game against the Pittsburgh Pirates at McKechnie Field.