Through the June draft and the flurry of July trades, the Orioles had the opportunity to add a number of new and hopefully exciting names to their farm system. If many of those players work out, the team’s rebuild will be shorter than we fear. The same is true if many of the O’s prospects who’ve been here for more than three months work out. O’s fans can still hope for a player like Alex Wells to work his way to the big show.
Wells’s changing place on the Orioles top prospects list might be the biggest sign of how the team has transformed its farm.