Baltimore Orioles Top view with a large start to spring training

The Baltimore Orioles are loaded with a lot of potential with young goals.

Players like Shortstop Gunnar Henderson and the right Colton Cowser are already cornerstones of the franchise. They hope that the second Baseman Jackson Holliday will be different so quickly this season.

All three players are 24 years old or younger and give the Orioles a very shiny future

But here your young talent doesn't end.

Corner-Infield Coby Mayo is classified as the second best view of Baltimore and overall in 14th place in the entire league.

His path to the Big League season is cloudy in 2025, since both Infield spots in the corner of solid seasons do.

The third basis is locked up by Jordan Westburg, and until the point would probably require an injury that he does not start on the opening day. The first Baseman Ryan Mountcastle has been unspectacular, but stable in the past two years. If Mayo would leave the management with little choice but would increase it, the probability of Mountcastle or the designated Hitter Ryan O'Hearn would take a role.

The problem is that Mayo did almost nothing through the first eight games of the team's spring training.

At the time of writing, he leads the team in Fats (17) and he is second in the played games (seven), but he only has one goal and a walk to show it. There is no reason to panic through the spring production, but so far it lowers .059/.111/.059.

During a 41 bat league-League stint last year he lowered .098/.196/.098.

These are both very small sampling sizes, but this will not push out solid veterans from the season for a competing team like the Orioles.

A silver strip for this slow start is Mayo, most opportunities to see in the team despite its production. Spring training is a melody for established players like Henderson or Catcher Adley Rutschman, so what you do in these games is meaningless.

For unproven talents like Mayo, it is a shop window and an opportunity to force a larger role.

Getting so much work indicates that management wants it to be successful so that they have a difficult decision when squad is completed. It is still a lot of time for him to be more productive this spring, but it is unlikely that he will crack the starting line -up to open the year.

The decision will be if he as a Big League role player would be more suitable or played full -time in the minor?

In one scenario, his path comes to a significant playing time when a Eckfield spot opens up by a current starter due to injuries or an overwhelming game.

In view of his slow start and his uneventful debut in 2024, Power-Hitting Mayo could make sense to bring more bats to the minor at the start of the year.