Maxwell Costes remembers being a little bit child and sitting in his mother’s lap along with his dad and older brother by his aspect as they watched the Orioles play at Camden Yards. He remembers being part of the workforce’s junior fan membership and considering he was within the coolest ballpark on this planet.
On Wednesday evening, the previous Maryland and Gilman star’s baseball journey got here full circle when he signed with the Orioles as an undrafted free agent.
For Costes, who grew up within the higher east aspect of Baltimore City, you couldn’t write a greater story.
“I used to always be [at Camden Yards] and be like, ‘I’m gonna be like them one day,’” he stated in a cellphone interview. “There are no real words to describe what it means to live your dream.”
Costes was a standout first baseman throughout his 4 years at Maryland, batting .298 with 40 house runs and 145 RBIs. After hitting .310 as a junior, Costes batted .296 with 16 house runs and 52 RBIs as a senior to earn third-team All-Big Ten Conference honors.
He performed an enormous position in Maryland’s historic 2022 season, serving to the Terps set a program report for wins (48) and host an NCAA Tournament regional in College Park for the primary time.
Costes burst onto the scene as a freshman in 2019, slashing .266/.397/.547 with 15 house runs, 15 doubles and 49 RBIs. He began in all 58 video games that season and was named first-team All-Big Ten.
At Gilman, Costes was named first-team All-Metro by The Baltimore Sun in 2018 after hitting .392 with six house runs and 21 RBIs whereas racking up seven saves on the mound.
“I went to Gilman, played four years at the state’s flagship school and get to stay home and play for [the Orioles],” he stated. “You can’t really write stories better than this. It feels unreal.”
Costes might someday be part of his brother within the large leagues, too. Marty Costes, a former star at Archbishop Curley who performed at Maryland for 3 seasons, at the moment performs for the Triple-A Sugar Land Space Cowboys after being drafted within the twenty second spherical by the Houston Astros in 2018.
The record-setting Terps additionally had three gamers drafted earlier this week in junior left-handed pitcher Ryan Ramsey, junior outfielder Troy Schreffler Jr. and fifth-year senior outfielder Chris “Bubba” Alleyne.
Ramsey, who threw the second good sport in Maryland historical past in April, was drafted by the Kansas City Royals within the thirteenth spherical. Schreffler was taken by the Philadelphia Phillies within the fifteenth spherical after slashing .340/.421/.557 in 2022. Alleyne, the Big Ten Player of the Year, was picked by the Los Angeles Dodgers within the nineteenth spherical after he turned first Division I participant since 2018 to report at the least 20 house runs and 20 stolen bases in a season.
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Source: www.bostonherald.com