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on with the Tides. If they’re good Christian Yelich Jersey , they’ll be back."WhiteFanposts Fanshots Sections Commentary & AnalysisOrioles ProspectsOrioles Game RecapsOrioles News and RumorsCamdencastOrioles ProspectsOrioles prospects season preview: Norfolk TidesNew,6commentsA number of players who were on the Orioles last year are starting this season with the Tides. If they’re good, they’ll be back.EDTShareTweetShareShareOrioles prospects season preview: Norfolk TidesRyan Mountcastle may be the #1 guy to keep an eye on at Norfolk.Douglas DeFelice-USA TODAY SportsThe one thing that makes the 2019 Orioles season different from any other in recent years is that now they know they are rebuilding. There is no pretending otherwise, though that doesn’t make the season-opening series win against the Yankees with its two laundry cart shower celebrations any less fun. As the season goes along, it’s more likely that any excitement will be coming from the minor league ranks.New GM Mike Elias has not had much time to remake the farm system yet. He arrived too late to sign anyone from the current international amateur signing period, and maybe even too late for the big names for the next signing period. He has not yet had a draft to put his mark on the system. For now, he’s stuck with what Dan Duquette left him in the cupboard.Can the new analytics regime mine some unexpected talent out of some of the existing prospects? Will the spring training storyline about Orioles manager Brandon Hyde making sure his minor league coaching staffs are all on the same page make a difference in player development compared to the counterproductive chaos that reigned before?We might start getting answers to some of these questions over the course of the 2019 season. Whether the Triple-A Norfolk Tides roster is full of prospects or not, the likelihood remains that a number of the players on this team will be summoned to the big league when someone currently on the Orioles either gets hurt or isn’t good.The Tides are managed this year by Gary Kendall, who was promoted from being the Double-A Bowie skipper.Orioles top 30 prospects on the Tides rosterTop prospects as rated by MLB Pipeline. The break camp roster is subject to change before minor league Opening Day on Thursday.3B/1B Ryan Mountcastle (2)LHP Keegan Akin (6)OF DJ Stewart (16)RHP Luis Ortiz (19)RHP Branden Kline (22)A noteworthy name NOT listed above is outfielder Austin Hays, the #4 prospect in the system, who may have excited you with his spring performance before he was sent down to the minors. Hays then hurt his thumb sliding into a base in a minor league game, so he’ll begin in extended spring rehab instead of at Norfolk.Mountcastle has been sliding down the defensive spectrum since being drafted. He was a shortstop. They dropped him to third base last year. The new brain trust had him spend some time at first base in spring, where he’s expected to also spend time at Norfolk. You have to hit pretty well to be an interesting first base prospect. Mountcastle’s .297/.341/.464 batting line at Bowie last year would indeed be interesting at the MLB level.Akin will be the top-rated pitching prospect on the team. If you were watching or listening to Orioles spring training games, you did not hear a word about him because he was not invited to big league camp. Is that a sign of how Elias and company think of Akin, or was it just a matter of there were already a lot of pitchers in camp? Akin turns 24 today, which is getting old for a prospect. Hopefully he can build on a Bowie campaign in 2018 where he posted a 3.27 ERA and struck out 142 batters in 137.2 innings.Stewart had a respectable big league debut last fall, with an .890 OPS in 17 games, yet he finds himself pushed to the minors in favor of Dwight Smith Jr. and Joey Rickard. Ortiz, part of the Jonathan Schoop trade return http://www.brewersfanproshop.com/authentic-orlando-arcia-jersey , carries with him perpetual injury questions. Kline, who was born in Maryland, has an exciting local angle to his feel-good story of perseverance. He’ll be getting his first taste of Triple-A competition and hopefully does well enough to earn his way to Baltimore.Other 40-man players on the Tides rosterElias probably won’t be doing the kind of near-daily shuffling of the Orioles roster that his predecessor did, because there’s no pressure to win. Instead, he’s going to give people extended tryouts to find out who can hack it and who can’t. The first round of tryouts are going to those who made the Opening Day roster. The ones who aren’t up to the task will have these Triple-A players waiting in the wings, assuming they’re playing well enough that Elias wants to call them up.RHP Evan PhillipsRHP Yefry RamirezLHP Josh RogersLHP Tanner ScottC Chance SiscoOF Anthony SantanderRamirez and Rogers could be either back-end starters or long relievers if the likes of David Hess, Jimmy Yacabonis, or John Means falter at the MLB level, or if someone gets hurt. Someone is likely going to get called up the day that Rule 5 reliever Pedro Araujo can be optioned, now about two weeks away. That could be either of the relievers, Phillips and Scott. Opportunity will be coming soon.Less of a sure thing is when Chance Sisco will get that opportunity. Being shuffled aside for Pedro Severino in the last week of spring training can’t be fun. Sisco scuffled at the plate and defensively last season and seemed to end up in the Buck Showalter doghouse, which led to his getting just 43 starts at the MLB level. Does the new regime want him to work on his defense? Is there a plan that will help him? Can he rebuild his hitting confidence against Triple-A competition?For some of these players, the case may turn out to be that Duquette’s scouting crew were a bunch of dopes for thinking they had any value whatsoever. They could be shuffled out of the picture as this season progresses. For others, it may be instead that a different bunch of now-departed player development dopes were incapable of unlocking the best versions of these players. Hopefully, there are more players in this latter group than the former.Other injuredRHP Cody Carroll (#21 prospect)C Austin WynnsRHP Dean Kremer (#9 prospect)Kremer arrived in spring training with a minor oblique strain, so he’s not full-go to start the season. Wynns suffered his oblique tweak during camp and is on the MLB injured list. Carroll was ticketed for the minors regardless but had his back flare up late in spring training, which keeps him off the Opening Day Tides roster and probably out of the “first guy called up” picture.**The Orioles farm system was famously rated 30th of 30 teams by ESPN’s Keith Law just a few months ago. To him, the farm system was little more than a boundless sea of scrubs in every direction. As people who enjoy when the Orioles win baseball games, we have to hope that Law’s assessment is incorrect. Players who are starting the year with the Norfolk Tides will likely get their chances to prove him wrong as 2019 moves along. ARLINGTON http://www.brewersfanproshop.com/authentic-orlando-arcia-jersey , Texas (AP) Jurickson Profar helped the Texas Rangers get a big win in a matchup of retooling teams, and hand the struggling Baltimore Orioles another low this season.Jurickson Profar hit a three-run home run and a run-scoring single as Texas scored 10 runs during the first two innings, Rougned Odor homered and walked a career-high five times, and the Rangers routed the Orioles 17-8 Thursday night.The Rangers – who traded pitchers Cole Hamels, Keone Kela and Jake Diekman earlier this week – saw 13 runs driven in by players age 25 or younger. A Texas team that has occupied last place in the American League West since April 9 has won five of its last six games for its best stretch since winning seven straight from June 16-23.”It’s great to envision what these guys are going to be,” Texas manager Jeff Banister said, ”but what they’re doing now is nice. It’s why we decided to go in the direction that we’re going.”Yovani Gallardo (6-1) won his third straight start but lasted only 5 1/3 innings despite having a 13-1 lead through four. Gallardo, who pitched for the Orioles in 2016, allowed five runs on nine hits, including home runs by Mark Trumbo and Caleb Joseph, plus two walks on a season-high 104 pitches.The 17 runs and 18 hits were season highs for Texas, while the Orioles allowed their most runs this year.The Orioles have lost 12 of their last 13 away games and are 13-41 on the road this season, worst in the majors. At 33-76, they’re on pace to finish with the league’s worst record for the first time since 1988.Baltimore was even more active at the non-waiver trade deadline, dealing second baseman Jonathan Schoop and pitchers Kevin Gausman, Zach Britton, Brad Brach and Darren O’Day.Andrew Cashner (3-10) retired only five batters, allowing eight runs on seven hits. He struck out one, walked one and had a wild pitch.”It was just one of those days http://www.brewersfanproshop.com/authentic-orlando-arcia-jersey ,” said Cashner, who played collegiately at nearby TCU and pitched last season for Texas. ”I was just really struggling finding my pitches.”Odor, who hit .341 in July, hit a two-run homer into the right-field second tier in the sixth, his 11th of the year. His first four walks came in the first four innings.Joey Gallo hit his team-leading 27th home run for Texas in the seventh.Elvis Andrus had two singles and a double to extend his hitting streak to 13 games, the longest active streak in the majors.Eddie Butler, acquired from the Chicago Cubs in the Hamels trade, earned his first career save by pitching the final 3 2/3 innings.”I’ll take `em however I can get `em,” Butler said.Tim Beckham had his second three-hit game in the last four.ANOTHER POSITION PLAYER PITCHESFirst baseman Danny Valencia was Baltimore’s final pitcher and faced one batter, striking out Gallo looking. Orioles manager Buck Showalter had not done that since summoning Ryan Flaherty from third base to pitch one inning in a 12-2 loss to Houston on August 20, 2016.Showalter’s decision was based in part on Valencia’s next start as a hitter being scheduled for Saturday.”It’s a tough call,” he said. ”I don’t like doing it at all.”ROSTER MOVES2B Jonathan Villar played his first game with Baltimore after being acquired Tuesday from Milwaukee. He became the Birds’ 10th leadoff hitter this season and went 2 for 5. To make room for Villar on the roster, INF Breyvic Valera was optioned to Triple-A Norfolk. … Texas signed former Orioles RHP Chris Tillman, who was released July 27, to a minor league contract.TRAINER’S ROOMOrioles: RHP Jhan Marinez left after pitching one inning citing a tight hamstring.Rangers: Manager Jeff Banister said there’s no concern about OF Nomar Mazara (sprained right thumb) even though he hasn’t played since July 14.UP NEXTFriday’s game will match rookie right-handers. Baltimore’s David Hess (2-5, 5.94 ERA) will make his first start since June 29 and hasn’t won since May 25. Texas’ Ariel Jurado (1-1, 4.22) replaced Cole Hamels in the rotation last Saturday and held Houston to one run in six innings.—