You know there’s a lot of preseason buzz around your team when your most valuable player from the year before gets only a supporting nod in spring training storylines. It’s true: over the course of one year, the 23-year-old Gunnar Henderson shed the “MLB Top Prospect” label and moved firmly into “Face of the Franchise” territory, just like Adley Rutschman before him. Now we greedy Birdland residents have moved onto talking about things like when Jackson Holliday is going to land in the big leagues, which prospects are hitting, and who is going to seize the remaining roster spots.
Orioles 2024 preseason projections: Gunnar Henderson
