2014 Baltimore Orioles

C – Chance Sisco –  LoA Delmarva – 19 yo;  – (2013 – 2nd round)  –
  • .340 -5 HR – 63RBi – 56R – .406/.448/.854 slash   –  – PAG: 3.10
  • BA/#10 – MLB Pipeline (mid-season)/#3 – BP/#9
1B – Trey Mancini – LoA Delmarva/HiA Frederick – 22 yo;  – (2013 – 8th round) –
  •  .284 – 10 HR – 83RBi – 67R – .326/.409/.753 slash  –  – csPAG: 2.93
  • BA/#25 – MLB Pipeline (mid-season)-NR  –  BP-NR
2B – Ronarsy Ledesma – Short Season Aberdeen/GCL Orioles/LoA Delmarva – 21 yo;  – (2013 – NDFA)
  • .289 – 7 HR – 28RBi – 24R – .344/.479/.824 slash  – – csPAG: 2.91
  • BA-NR  –  MLB Pipeline-NR  –  BP-NR
3B – Drew Dosch – LoA Delmarva – 22 yo;  – (2013 – 7th round) –
  • .314 – 5 HR – 50RBi – 76R – .379/.404/.783 slash  – – PAG: 2.97
  • BA-NR  –  MLB Pipeline (mid-season)/#11  –  BP-NR
SS – Ricardo Andujar – DSL Orioles1 – 21 yo; – (2014 free agent signee) –
  • .318 – 0 HR – 18RBi – 34R – 15 SB – .400/.393/.793 slash  – – PAG: 3.06
  • BA-NR  –  MLB Pipeline-NR  –  BP-NR 
LF – Mike Yastrzemski – LoA Delmaarva/HiA Frederick/AA Bowie – 23 yo; –  (2013 – 14th round)
  • .288 – 14HR – 75RBi – 96R – 18 SB – .364/.490/.836 slash  – – csPAG: 3.81
  • BA-NR  –  MLB Pipeline-NR  –  BP-NR
CF – Glynn Davis – HiA Frederick/AA Bowie – 22 yo; – (2010 – NDFA) –
  • .299 – 2HR – 43RBi – 74R – 23 SB – .356/.391/.747 slash  – – csPAG: 3.07
  • BA/#29  –  MLB Pipeline-NR  –  BP-NR
RF – Brenden Webb – HiA Frederick – 24 yo; – (2009 – 30th round) –
  • .230 – 11HR – 49RBi – 48R – .300/.390/.690 slash  –  – PAG: 2.76
  • BA-NR  –  MLB Pipeline-NR  –  BP-NR
Heading into 2014, the Baltimore system was viewed as a ‘middle ground’ organization in regards to overall prospects in both the American and National Leagues.  The Orioles have always been a top heavy organization and their graduation rate has proven quite successful.  With SP Kevin Gausman and 2B Jonathan Schoop making their mark with the big league club, this left a bit of a prospect hole with all due respect to SP’s Hunter Harvey and Dylan Bundy.  I think Baltimore takes a hit in overall ranking this coming season.  Several hitters are good/solid, but the system needs improvement to become great again.  I feel catcher Chance Sisco has the skills to become one of Baltimore’s better hitting prospects (at a premium position to boot) and third baseman Drew Dosch’ official debut season was a big success after missing all of 2013 with a knee injury.  Both Dosch and Sisco were amongst the organizational leaders in on-base percentage; and I could see aggressive 2015 assignments to HiA Delmarva  giving both a possible boost in offense.
 
 
 
Top 5 Starting Pitchers – Mention Points/TPS
 
1. LHP Steven Brault – (13) cSR/TPS .102
  • 22 years old (LoA Delmarva/HiA Frederick)
  • 11th round – 2011
  • Ranked 14th by Baseball America
  • UTR Mention on May 13th
2. RHP Sebastian Vader – (12) SP/TPS .125
3. LHP Mitch Horacek – (11) SP/TPS .085
  • 22 years old (LoA Delmarva/HiA Frederick)
  • 9th round – 2013
  • 3-Time UTR Mentions (May 8th, May 31st, June 5th)
4. RHP Hunter Harvey – (10) SP/TPS .070
  • 19 years old (LoA Delmarva)
  • 1st round – 2013
  • Ranked
    • 4th – Baseball America
    • 21st – Baseball Prospectus Top 50 (mid-season)
    • 2nd – MLBPipeline
5. RHP Parker Bridwell – (10) SP/TPS .093
  • 22 years old (HiA Frederick)
  • 9th round – 2010
  • 2-time UTR Mention (May 13th, May 30th)
  • Ranked 19th by Baseball America / 12th by MLBPipeline
 
Top 3 Relief Pitchers – Mention Points/TPS
 
1. RHP Jon Keller – (13) RP/TPS .069
  • 21 years old (LoA Delmarva/HiA Frederick)
  • 22nd round – 2013
  • Ranked 17th by Baseball America / 20th by MLBPipeline
2. RHP Jimmy Yacabonis – (7) RP/TPS .098
  • 22 years old (LoA Delmarva/HiA Frederick)
  • 13th round – 2013
3. LHP Bennett Parry – (5) cSR/TPS .073
  • 22 years old (Short-Season Aberdeen/LoA Delmarva)
  • 40th Round – 2011
  • Impact made in the bullpen to begin 2014 season with LoA Delmarva. Later moved into a starting role with some success.
 
Top 5 TPS – Starting Pitchers  
 
1.  RHP Hunter Harvey – SP/TPS .070
  • 19 years old (LoA Delmarva)
  • 1st round – 2013
  • Ranked
    • 4th – Baseball America
    • 21st – Baseball Prospectus Top 50 (mid-season)
    • 2nd – MLBPipeline
2. LHP Brian Gonzalez – SP/TPS .072
3. RHP Jonatan Isenia – cSR/TPS .077
4. RHP David Hess – cSR/TPS .081
5. LHP Mitch Horacek – SP/TPS .085
  • 22 years old (LoA Delmarva/HiA Frederick)
  • 9th round – 2013
  • 3-Time UTR Mentions (May 8th, May 31st, June 5th)
 
Top 3 TPS – Relief Pitchers
 
1. RHP Patrick Baker – RP/TPS .057
  • 2o years old (GCL Orioles)
  • 29th round – 2014
2. RHP Alex Santana – RP/TPS .068
  • 22 years old (Short-Season Aberdeen/LoA Delmarva/Double-A Bowie)
  • Undrafted – 2009
  • UTR Mention on June 20th
  • Santana should be on your watchlist in 2015
3. RHP Jon Keller – RP/TPS .069
  • 21 years old (LoA Delmarva/HiA Frederick)
  • 22nd round – 2013
  • Ranked 17th by Baseball America / 20th by MLBPipeline
 2014 Breakout Grades
The following pitchers were chosen in early March. Their selection was based solely on their previous season’s TPS rating and using the UTRMinors.com criteria for those under the radar.
 
SP Stephen Tarpley had modest success in 2014 with Short-Season Aberdeen. The 21 year old left-hander went 3-5 with an 3.66 ERA over 66.1 IP in 13 appearances. Grade B-
 
RP Caleb Kellogg – Did Not Play on the DL
 
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