Sometimes it seems as if every pitching staff in baseball is loaded with an endless supply of flamethrowers who can hit 100 miles per hour on the radar gun. Or at least, every pitching staff except for the Orioles. The team finished the 2025 season with the second-slowest average fastball velocity across its entire pitching staff, just 93.1mph. They are going to have to find a stream of hard-throwing prospects to catch up.

Before the 2025 season began, several prospect lists took note of an 18-year-old right-handed pitching prospect, Keeler Morfe, for being just such a player. Morfe was 15th in the Camden Chat composite top Orioles prospects list heading into the season, ranking as high as 9th on MLB Pipeline’s list. On that Pipeline list, the Venezuelan righty ranked higher than every ot

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