SARASOTA, Fla. — The substitutions happened all at once.

Manager Brandon Hyde started to empty his bench with four innings to go Friday, giving the Orioles’ starters the rest of the afternoon off in the bottom of the sixth in their Grapefruit League game against the Minnesota Twins. Enrique Bradfield Jr. replaced Heston Kjerstad and took over in center field. Dylan Beavers entered the game for Dylan Carlson in right. Jud Fabian trotted out to left as part of a double switch.

For four innings, Hyde deployed three of the organization’s top outfield prospects at once, giving the three close friends the chance to roam the outfield with “Orioles” written across their chests. What ensued was a monster comeback as the Orioles erased a 10-5 deficit in the ninth inning with an eight-run rally, led by Fabian’s game-tying, two-run double and Beavers clearing the right field wall for a go-ahead, two-run home run.

“We try to win every game we come into,” Fabian said. “We have that fight. It’s been instilled in us during our development and throughout the minors. They’re like, ‘Hey, never quit. Never stopped going.’ So, we really just kept it going through all nine innings.”

Fabian, Beavers and Bradfield are all in major league camp for the first time in their careers this spring, getting the chance to work with the Orioles’ coaching staff and soak up as much as they can from the club’s veteran players. Fabian and Beavers have been teammates at nearly every stop of the minor leagues and they’ve shared several clubhouses with Bradfield since the Orioles drafted him in 2023, creating a bond between the three young outfielders.

“It’s pretty awesome getting to go through it with other guys who are doing it for the first time too,” Beavers said. “One, it takes off pressure, but it’s, OK, we’re kind of moving through this space together, trying to navigate through it being our first time here. So, it’s nice having other guys alongside you to do that.”

Their time in big league camp was relatively short-lived, however. On Sunday, the Orioles reassigned all three outfield prospects to minor league camp.

During their time away from the field, the trio can most often be found playing PGA Tour video games. They’ve each created their own players in career mode, and so far the bragging rights belong to Fabian, who modeled his character after himself and just recently graduated from the Korn Ferry Tour and won his first PGA tournament a few days ago.

On the actual course, Beavers plays the cleanest game of the three. Fabian’s skills on the sticks don’t translate as well to the tee box, where he says he’s “pretty terrible.” Bradfield says he can drive the ball well but, in true casual golfer fashion, he doesn’t always know where it’s going.

“I would just describe it as good friends being able to work together,” Bradfield said of their rapport. “We play video games together some days, we come to the field, we hang out, we might go grab some food. So, it’s just being able to spend time with people that you actually enjoy and be able to work on your craft at the same time. It’s a lot of fun.”

That fun extends to the field as well. Fabian and Beavers have an ongoing competition to see who can catch the most fly balls in camp. So, whenever one of them is in center field during outfield drills, they’re always trying to call the other off on balls in the gap to rack up more catches.

“I can honestly say Jud will be a lifelong friend for me,” Beavers said. “It’s a blessing. What are the odds that I’m from California, he’s from Florida and we end up playing on the same team all the way out through the minors. So, he’s a great guy. He’s got a great family, so I’m going to probably be close with him for a really long time.”

Bradfield also stayed with Beavers for part of the offseason and he’s become close with the two outfielders drafted a year ahead of him. Beavers described him as “another one of those guys that I’ll probably be close with for a long time” while Fabian said he “lightens up the clubhouse, lightens up the field, lightens up the dugout.”

The three of them represent the next wave of outfield talent making its way through the Orioles’ farm system. Baseball America ranks them as three of the club’s top 10 prospects heading into the 2025 season. Bradfield and Beavers were drafted in the first round while the Orioles took Fabian in the second round of the 2023 draft, 34 picks after Beavers.

With Colton Cowser and Heston Kjerstad exceeding rookie limits last season, Beavers and Fabian are the top candidates to get the call to the majors if an outfield spot opens up in 2025 after they reached Triple-A Norfolk in the second half of last season. Bradfield isn’t far behind, impressing with his speed and defense during his short stint with Double-A Chesapeake.

Though they have allowed themselves to occasionally dream of sharing an outfield in Baltimore one day, they also understand the reality of being in a competitive organization. The Orioles’ outfield is already crowded, a fact that led to the trades of veteran Austin Hays and prospects Kyle Stowers, Mac Horvath, Matthew Etzel and Billy Cook at last year’s deadline.

They don’t know how many times they’ll have the chance to suit up together like they did for Saturday’s comeback win, but the relationships they’ve built with one another help them soak up the time they have now in camp.

“I think it’s easy for me personally,” Bradfield said. “I like to be where my feet are. I have to be present on a daily basis but the competition around this organization brings out the best in everybody. Everybody is working hard. Everybody is moving in a good direction. You’re all doing it at the same time so it makes it a lot of fun to have such a competitive environment, you’re going to get everybody’s best each day and that’s honestly what makes teams great.”

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