[外電] BA Orioles Top 10
TOP TEN PROSPECTS
1. Manny Machado, ss
2. Zach Britton, lhp
3. Xavier Avery, of
4. L.J. Hoes, 2b
5. Dan Klein, rhp
6. Wynn Pelzer, rhp
7. Mychal Givens, ss
8. Ryan Adams, 2b/3b
9. Ryan Berry, rhp
10. Jonathan Schoop, ss
BEST TOOLS
Best Hitter for Average Manny Machado
Best Power Hitter Brandon Waring
Best Strike-Zone Discipline Brian Conley
Fastest Baserunner Glynn Davis
Best Athlete Xavier Avery
Best Fastball Zach Britton
Best Curveball Dan Klein
Best Slider Zach Britton
Best Changeup Dan Klein
Best Control Ryan Berry
Best Defensive Catcher Caleb Joseph
Best Defensive Infielder Manny Machado
Best Infield Arm Billy Rowell
Best Defensive Outfielder Matt Angle
Best Outfield Arm Matt Angle
Replacing their manager got all the attention, but the Orioles are making
modifications throughout the organization to try to reverse a 13-year run of
losing seasons since their last playoff appearance in 1997.
Dumping Dave Trembley became an obvious move after Baltimore got off to a
15-39 start in 2010, and interim replacement Juan Samuel was little better at
17-34. Hiring Buck Showalter at the end of July brought the team instant
credibility, however, and he won more games in his two months at the helm,
34, than Trembley and Samuel had in four.
Showalter also got credit for bringing a more professional approach,
discipline and confidence to the major league club, and the Orioles' young
players responded to the new outlook. Rookie lefthander Brian Matusz, for
example, went 3-11, 5.46 before Showalter was hired, then went 7-1, 2.18 the
rest of the way.
The changes went deeper than just the manager. Baltimore reassigned farm
director David Stockstill at the end of spring training, essentially having
him switch jobs with his brother John, who had been director of international
scouting. John Stockstill wants to oversee a return to The Oriole Way, the
uniform instruction of fundamentals at every level of the system. That
philosophy became the foundation of the organization in the 1950s and carried
the team through the rest of the century.
The Orioles will have fewer roving minor league instructors, choosing instead
to have an extra coach at each level in hopes of bringing greater consistency
to the daily instruction players receive. Stockstill himself will focus more
directly on personnel than farm directors traditionally do, working with
players in the majors as well as the minors in hopes that young big leaguers
will continue to develop rather than stagnate.
To that end, Baltimore also will have longtime batting coach Terry Crowley
move into a new system-wide hitting evaluation job, working with both major
and minor leaguers. Showalter will hire a new hitting coach, and the rest of
the major league and minor league staffs could see significant changes as the
hiring process continues through the offseason.
The Orioles dropped their longtime affiliation with Bluefield after sending
players there for 53 seasons. The organization decided that its resources
were spread too thin with seven affiliations and opted to go with one
Rookie-level club in the Gulf Coast League instead.
The GCL team will play in new digs in 2011, as a $33 million renovation
project nears completion in Sarasota, Fla. Baltimore moved its big league
spring-training operation back to Sarasota in 2010, putting their major and
minor league complexes in the same city for the first time since 1995. Both
facilities are getting complete makeovers, and the team has a 30-year lease
to stay in Sarasota for the foreseeable future.
Because of the renovations, the team could not hold a traditional
instructional league program in the fall, so it brought 15 of its top
position players to Camden Yards for 10 days of focused instruction and other
programs, such as dealing with the media and learning Orioles history.
Still, the Orioles face an uphill battle to compete in the American League
East. The farm system has thinned out despite the addition of Machado, with
numerous graduations in the last couple of seasons as well as an inordinate
number of injuries to top prospects in 2010.
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Do they still play the blues in Chicago
When baseball season rolls around
When the snow melts away
Do the Cubbies still play
In their ivy-covered burial ground
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