The easiest thing about being among the worst teams to ever play a 162-game baseball season is that, once August rolls around, you can start to play some of your big league-ready prospects. One problem for the Orioles that led them to the cellar in the first place is that they don’t have many of these ready for an audition, but they do have at least one in Cedric Mullins.
Mullins didn’t join the team the moment that the trade deadline passed, but other than that, the O’s mostly got his arrival right. They got the buy-in from Adam Jones to move him to right field and they called up Mullins for his debut on August 10 and he has been their center fielder of the present and hopefully future ever since.