When it comes to Orioles prospects, we usually expect things to go wrong more than they go right.
Pitchers with sky-high potential fail to develop or get injured, or both. Promising young position players flame out before they reach the bigs. It’s not often that we actually see an Orioles prospect work his way up through the minors without incident and then contribute to the big league club as hoped.
Mullins’ professional career started with little fanfare. He was a 5-foot-8, 13th-round draft pick in 2015 out of Campbell University in Georgia and put up somewhat unremarkable numbers for short-season Aberdeen that season.