It seems Kyle Stowers can’t help getting overshadowed.
The 24-year-old Californian with the blinding blond locks, a 2019 second-round pick out of Stanford with a prolific minor league career, wasn’t the most ballyhooed O’s prospect from his draft class to debut this year. Heck, he wasn’t even the second most.
While Adley Rutschman and Gunnar Henderson — who each ranked as the #1 prospect in baseball at some point this year — arrived in the majors to breathless acclaim and national media attention, Stowers slipped onto the roster with barely any notice outside of Baltimore.