Adley Stan Rutschman is an American professional baseball catcher for the Baltimore Orioles of Major League Baseball. He played college baseball for the Oregon State Beavers. He was named the Pac-12 Conference Player of the Year in 2019.
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Rutschman went to Sherwood High School. After graduating from high school, he studied at Oregon State University and excelled at college baseball there.
Adley was drafted in the 40th round of the 2016 Major League Baseball (MLB) Draft by the Seattle Mariners. He did not sign with the Seattle Mariners. Instead, he enrolled at Oregon State University and played for the Beavers.
Fantasy:
After years of anticipation and weeks of speculation, Adley Rutschman has arrived.
The Orioles on Saturday promoted baseball’s top overall prospect, setting the stage for one of the most anticipated big league debuts in recent memory and marking a milestone in the franchise’s rebuilding efforts.
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The No. 1 overall pick in the 2019 Draft, he’s been ranked one of baseball’s top two prospects since the summer of 2020 and is currently No. 1.
Rutschman is in the Orioles starting lineup Saturday against the Rays, batting sixth and catching right-hander Kyle Bradish.
“I’d say about as excited as I can be right now,” Rutschman said at Oriole Park on Saturday afternoon. “I mean, this is probably about the coolest thing, the coolest moment that I’ve had so far. I’m really excited for it.”
Draft:
The Orioles will promote Rutschman, a 24-year-old catcher, and he’s expected to make his major league debut Saturday night against the Tampa Bay Rays. The top prospect in the organization and, in the eyes of several publications, the sport, Rutschman has been long-awaited at Camden Yards since Baltimore drafted him out of Oregon State.
By virtue of the Orioles’ franchise-worst 115-loss season in 2018, Mike Elias inherited the first overall pick in the 2019 draft when he became Baltimore’s executive vice president and general manager, promising to build an “elite talent pipeline” that would allow the Orioles to be a perennial playoff contender.
