Chesapeake Baysox

This year I don't know that we have a true outlier, but there are some really interesting things here.

Baseball America released this last week, and then Nick wrote up about it over our Substack, oriolesandthebirds.substack.com. Basically taking the data from Baseball America and distilling it down to the four full season ballparks, Norfolk, Chesapeake, Frederick, and Delmarva.

And Nick, before we start to get into the specific ballparks, I know that the three of us always like to see this data every year, just because as I mentioned, it's a good way for us to kind of get an accurate snapshot of what's going on at these ballparks.

But as you dug into the data from Baseball America and then wrote it up yourself over at Substack, what kind of st- what storylines emerged for you?

But I feel like for the most part, like Norfolk not being so hitter friendly, we obviously know that, uh, to an extent.

Although I, I always kind of felt like with Norfolk's big outfield and you see a lot more doubles, a lot more triples, like you still see some offense, but that turned out not to be as true this year.

Chesapeake obviously very home run friendly.

Frederick an extreme outlier in terms of home runs, but in other aspects of the game actually not so much, which is probably the, the most intriguing storyline of this entire point, I think.

Yeah, that was a, that was a weird week.

Uh, we were in Bowie, Maryland, playing the Chesapeake Bay Sox.

And, you know, you're kind of in the boonies a little bit.

You're in the, in the woods and, um, everyone knew that the trade deadline was coming and, you know, it-- there had been rumors swirling that a lot of our guys were on, you know, in trade rumors.

And although by the end of his time in double A, he had ironed it out.

Keegan Gillis also had some walk issues when he was with the Bay Sox.

So let's go over this question now from Daddy Batty.

It's another prospect related question.

My mom's from Bowie, which is pretty nearby Baltimore.

And my grandfather and uncles would always take me to a Bowie Bay Sox game and a Baltimore Orioles game every summer when I was up there.

So it was a big part of my childhood.

So just being part of the organization was a dream come true from the start.

And coming up on today's episode, with the Orioles-Blue Jays game postponed due to rain on Tuesday night, we're gonna chat about some things that went on in the minor leagues this year.

With the season ending for the High-A Frederick Keys and the Double-A Chesapeake Bay Sox, we're gonna look at four players who ended their season at each of those level in the Orioles system who really impressed in 2026 and should be some of the Orioles' most exciting prospects heading into 2027.

And then we get you ready for the Orioles double header coming up later today [lip smacks] against the Blue Jays.

And can't say I minded this game being canceled Tuesday, right? The Orioles aren't playing the greatest of baseball, and hey, it meant that there was no way the Orioles could be eliminated on Tuesday.

I, I'm excited to see him next year against some better hitting competition.

All right, that's the Frederick Keys who were incredible.

The Chesapeake Bay Sox at the double A level They were, it was kind of a rough start.

But when they got that infusion of keys players in the promotions in the second half, they were really, really good in the second half of the season.

people just wanted the box signed.

The best thing we did was hoard those pictures that they had at the Bay Sox game.

At the Bay Sox

game, some overzealous guy.

I hate my picture in that.

picture, but they printed out about, like, A thousand little postcards.

Four by six or five by seven little photos.

And maybe we send a hundred of them at the Bay Sox game.