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Orioles’ Samuel Basallo announcement brings the future to Baltimore right now

Samuel Basallo is here.

The Baltimore Orioles have called up their top prospect, a top-10 prospect in the entirety of baseball. Fans have been waiting for him all season, and on Sunday, Basallo has been officially promoted.

Basallo is a catcher who can also play first base.

This season at Triple-A, Basallo has played in 76 games and has gone deep 23 times (a 49-HR pace for a full season). His OPS at that level is .966.

Basallo is 21 years old and should star with the bat no matter what position he winds up playing at the MLB level.

Long term, there'll be some question over what this means for Adley Rutschman, the Orioles' incumbent catcher.

For now, though, that's less important tha

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