With the regular seasons for their full-season minor league affiliates coming to an end, the Orioles can look back on what players have accomplished to start handing out some awards. Lefty pitching prospect Alex Wells is first up, with the Orioles announcing on Tuesday that Wells is the winner of the Jim Palmer Minor League Pitcher of the Year for the 2017 season.
Wells spent the season pitching for the Delmarva Shorebirds. The 20-year-old, who the O's signed out of Australia, was up to the challenge of his first year in full-season ball, with a 2.