The Orioles’ big league club has been the most disappointing team in baseball in 2025, edging out the historically awful Rockies. The farm system is also struggling. The Orioles rank near the bottom in most hitting and pitching categories across the minors, and their four full-season teams are all well under .500 as of early June.

Baltimore does have some prospects who are emerging both on the mound and at the plate, but scouts watching their teams see below-average impact talent, and the team now only has two Top 100 Prospects.

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Read on below for prospect graduates, risers, fallers, new additions and injury updates below. Top 30 updates for all 30 teams can be found here.

Graduates

Heston Kjerstad, OF: Kjerstad has gotten his first regular at-bats in Baltimore this year, but it hasn’t gone as he or the Orioles had hoped. He’s shown little power, very poor corner outfield defense and strikeout issues.

Risers

Trey Gibson, RHP: Don’t pay too much attention to Gibson’s ERA. He’s generating plenty of swings and misses with his slider and curveball. He could end up as a bat-missing reliever, but he has enough control to have a shot to start.

Stiven Martinez, OF: Martinez is just getting going in the Florida Complex League, but scouts are impressed with his well-rounded promise.

Fallers

Trace Bright, RHP: Bright’s below-average control has become well below-average this year. He isn’t getting squared up, but his 55% strike rate is not enough to effectively get through four or five innings. He has to more consistently find the strike zone to let his average and above-average stuff play.

Vance Honeycutt, OF: The concerns that dogged Honeycutt in college are even louder now. He has the tools to be a power-speed center fielder, but his 37% strikeout rate at a not particularly aggressive High-A assignment raises further worries that he just won’t hit enough to get to his power.

Griff O’Ferrall, SS: O’Ferrall lack of power didn’t prevent him from being a very steady performer at Virginia. It is getting in his way of being a solid performer in High-A. He’s a solid defender and he doesn’t strike out much, but he also rarely makes an outfielder take a step backward.

Injuries

Brandon Young, RHP: Young is expected to miss significant time after experiencing right shoulder discomfort.

Alex Pham, RHP: Pham has been on the 7-day IL with right forearm inflammation since early May.

Michael Forret, RHP: Forret has been sidelined since early May with a back injury.

Keeler Morfe, RHP: Morfe walked 12 batters in two innings before going on the injured list with a finger injury

Patrick Reilly, RHP: Reilly will miss the remainder of the 2025 season as he recovers from Tommy John surgery.

New Additions

Braxton Bragg, RHP: Bragg has added a kick-change and several ticks of velocity, which has helped him add real stuff to his already existing pitching savvy.

Levi Wells, RHP: Wells has a big fastball and a more consistent delivery this year. He’s been one of a pair of very nice breakouts in the Double-A Chesapeake rotation, along with Bragg.

Nate George, OF: George has some of the best speed in the Orioles’ organization and he also has enough strength to be a power-speed threat. He’s off to a great start in the Florida Complex League.

Esteban Mejia, RHP: Mejia is a teenager with power stuff to go with some deception to his delivery. He should profile at least as a power reliever with a chance he could develop as a starter.

Yasmil Bucce, C/1B: After spending four years in rookie ball, Bucce has been a surprise standout this year. The switch-hitter shows an excellent batting eye combined with a short stroke and power potential.