Orioles News & Notes - April 2025

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From the 4/19 MLB pipeline article 10 former Top 100 prospects taking flight in 2025:


Shane Baz, RHP, Rays
No. 12 prospect before 2022

If it feels like we’ve been waiting for the Baz breakout for years, it’s because we have. The right-hander ranked as a Top 100 MLB Pipeline prospect on four occasions, beginning in 2018, and was included in the massive trade that sent Chris Archer to the Pirates and Tyler Glasnow, Austin Meadows and Baz to the Rays. After returning from Tommy John surgery last season, Baz looks fully healthy and like a burgeoning frontline starter. The 25-year-old was running a 1.42 ERA with 27 strikeouts and just four walks in 19 innings across his first three starts before allowing five runs against the Yankees on Saturday. In those first three outings, Baz was downright unhittable with his curveball and changeup, punching out 20 of 38 hitters in plate appearances ending on those pitches.