Buck Britton, manager of the Double-A Bowie Baysox and the Orioles’ 2021 recipient of the Cal Ripken Sr. Player Development Award, was quick to deflect to his coaching staff when discussing his honor Tuesday at Camden Yards.
He also noted that the best way to be a good coach is to hang around the best players — and he spent Tuesday with three of them as Adley Rutschman and Kyle Stowers were honored as the co-Brooks Robinson Minor League Players of the Year and Grayson Rodriguez was honored for the second time in as many seasons as the Jim Palmer Minor League Pitcher of the Year.