What was meant to be a 2020 season in which the Orioles’ new minor league hitting program paid immediate dividends the way the pitching program had the previous year never materialized.
Fortunately for the Orioles, the dynamic group of instructors were nimble enough to implement their plan virtually and on the fly — and at the very least came out of 2020 with leaders who were bought into their methods on the field.
The alternate training site at Bowie was filled with many success stories who came up and helped the major league team, but in top prospects Adley Rutschman and Gunnar Henderson, the camp was an opportunity to get an immersive experience in the data-driven, challenging and personal program the new hitting staff was implementing.