The Orioles introduced their 2022 minor league award winners Friday, naming infielder Jordan Westburg the Brooks Robinson Minor League Player of the Year and right-hander Ryan Watson because the Jim Palmer Minor League Pitcher of the Year.
Westburg, 23, hit .265/.355/.496 with 27 dwelling runs and 39 doubles between Double-A and Triple-A. The thirtieth general decide within the 2020 draft, Westburg was promoted to Norfolk alongside Gunnar Henderson — acknowledged earlier this week as Baseball America’s Minor League Player of the Year — and bought off to a powerful begin earlier than enduring a midseason dip as pitchers adjusted to him. But he adjusted again, hitting .284/.405/.551 with 11 dwelling runs in his remaining 46 video games with the Tides.
Watson signed as a free agent after going unselected in that shortened 2020 draft. The 24-year-old opened the yr as a bulk pitcher for Double-A Bowie, recording two good aid outings of 4 innings every. He then moved into the Baysox’s rotation and continued to pitch properly, posting a 3.41 ERA over 20 appearances. He allowed one or fewer runs in 11 of these outings, which every lasted not less than 3 2/3 innings. He then moved to Triple-A and labored in aid, with a 3.65 ERA and .174 batting common allowed over seven appearances. He ranked third in each ERA (3.44) and WHIP (1.10) amongst Orioles minor leaguers who pitched not less than 75 innings, rating fourth within the system with 107 1/3 innings.
The Orioles will acknowledge each gamers earlier than Tuesday’s sport towards the Toronto Blue Jays, at which level the crew will even honor High-A Aberdeen supervisor Roberto Mercado because the winner of the Cal Ripken Sr. Player Development Award and Scott Walter because the Jim Russo Scout of the Year.
In his first season in skilled baseball, Mercado led the IronBirds inside a sport of the South Atlantic League championship. Walter, an space scout primarily based in California, has been with the Orioles since 2010 and was the signing scout for outfielder Kyle Stowers, the 71st general decide in 2019 out of Stanford who made his main league debut this yr, and 2022 thirty third general decide Dylan Beavers, a university star at Cal.
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