{"id":616144,"date":"2026-03-10T04:18:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T04:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/616144\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T04:18:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T04:18:26","slug":"baltimore-orioles-prospect-suffers-rankings-decline-during-spring-training-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/616144\/","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore Orioles Prospect Suffers Rankings Decline During Spring Training"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Baltimore Orioles<\/a> have produced some of baseball’s highest-ranked prospects this decade, but shortstop Gunnar Henderson is the only one who’s turned into a superstar. The jury is still out on several of their young pieces, but outfielder Enrique Bradfield Jr. got demoted from No. 3 to No. 10<\/a> on the Orioles’ new prospect ranking, per MLB.com. He was No. 3 in 2025.<\/p>\n

Baltimore drafted Bradfield No. 17 overall in 2023, and he rose from Rookie League to High-A that year before getting to Double-A in 2024 and Triple-A in 2025. The 24-year-old has a career slash line of .264\/.369\/.359 with 135 stolen bases over 209 minor-league games, but has just seven homers and 60 RBIs. He’s had similar struggles with slugging in spring training, as he’s had just one extra-base hit in 17 career contests as a non-roster invitee since 2023. This year, he’s 1-for-9 with two walks and two runs scored, and his only hit was a bunt single.<\/p>\n

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Bradfield has been surpassed on the prospect ranking by outfielder Dylan Beavers, who went from No. 6 last year to No. 2 this year. The 24-year-old has displayed more power so far, as he’s slashed .278\/.383\/.459 with 44 homers, 180 RBIs, and 87 stolen bases over 361 minor-league games. He also logged a .775 OPS with four homers over 35 big-league games last season.<\/p>\n

The Orioles selected Beavers No. 33 overall in the Competitive Balance Round A of the 2022 MLB Draft. The California native has had one more year to develop professionally than Bradfield, but he’s clearly more MLB-ready.<\/p>\n

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Baltimore Orioles outfielder Enrique Bradfield Jr. \u00a9 Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Although Bradfield has run into adversity, he still has time to turn it around. If he improves his power-hitting in the minors over the next couple of years, he could finally earn big-league playing time.<\/p>\n

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Either way, Baltimore has plenty of other players who could develop into long-term pieces. For example, catcher Samuel Basallo (No. 8), Beavers (No. 69), and outfielder Nate George (No. 93) are all on MLB Pipeline’s Top 100 Prospects list<\/a>, and young big-leaguers like Jackson Holliday and Colton Cowser are not close to their primes yet.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, veterans like Henderson, Pete Alonso, and Taylor Ward will help the Orioles contend while the young pieces develop, so they have a promising outlook both now and in the future.<\/p>\n

Up next for Baltimore is a spring training matchup with the Houston Astros on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Baltimore Orioles have produced some of baseball’s highest-ranked prospects this decade, but shortstop Gunnar Henderson is the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2374],"tags":[143,47,2538,5,1125,13462,39411,916,54,1514,4,125,74,7326,5694,1362],"class_list":["post-616144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baltimore-orioles","tag-baltimore","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-baltimoreorioles","tag-baseball","tag-colton-cowser","tag-dylan-beavers","tag-enrique-bradfield","tag-gunnar-henderson","tag-houston-astros","tag-jackson-holliday","tag-mlb","tag-orioles","tag-pete-alonso","tag-samuel-basallo","tag-taylor-ward","tag-the-orioles"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116202957693376091","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}