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Baseball America Names Five Orioles in Top 100 Prospects

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January 22, 2026

Baseball America released it’s annually anticipated Preseason Top 100 list on Wednesday this week. Five Orioles farmhands were listed, including three Tides from the 2025 season: C/1B Samuel Basallo (No. 9), OF Dylan Beavers (No. 21), and RHP Trey Gibson (No. 72). OF Nate George (No. 86) finished 2025 with

Baseball America released it’s annually anticipated Preseason Top 100 list on Wednesday this week. Five Orioles farmhands were listed, including three Tides from the 2025 season: C/1B Samuel Basallo (No. 9), OF Dylan Beavers (No. 21), and RHP Trey Gibson (No. 72). OF Nate George (No. 86) finished 2025 with High-A Aberdeen, while LHP Luis De León (No. 95) reached Double-A Chesapeake.

SAMUEL BASALLO played 76 games with Norfolk in 2025. He hit .280 with 23 home runs and 67 RBI. He was named an International League Postseason All-Star for his efforts, an is the first Tide since Todd Hundley (1991) to be named a postseason All-Star at the catcher position. Shortly after his MLB debut in mid-August of 2025, Basallo signed an eight-year contract to play long-term for Baltimore. Basallo is ranked as the best catching prospect in MLB.

DYLAN BEAVERS played 94 games with the Tides in 2025 and hit .304 with 18 home runs and 51 RBI. Beavers won the International League MVP Award, while also being named an All-Star. He is the eighth Tide to win the International League MVP Award, and the second to do so as an Orioles affiliate (Ryan Mountcastle in 2019).

TREY GIBSON finished the 2025 season in Norfolk, starting seven games. He graduated from Grafton High School (Yorktown, VA) in 2019 and attended Liberty University. He went undrafted in the 2023 class and signed a minor league contract with Baltimore. Gibson is the highest ranked pitching prospect in the Orioles organization, and earned the Jim Palmer Award in 2025 as the top pitching prospect in the Orioles organization.

NATE GEORGE played his final month of the season with Aberdeen. In 87 minor league games, he hit .337 with 5 home runs and 42 RBI. George earned the Brooks Robinson Award as the top offensive prospect in the Orioles organization. 2025 was his first professional season after being drafted in the 16th round of the 2024 draft from Minooka High School (Illinois).

LUIS DE LEÓN pitched in 20 games (18 starts) between Single-A Delmarva and Chesapeake in 2025. He went 5-3 with a 3.30 ERA and struck out 107 batters in 87.1 innings. After the All-Star Break in 2025, De León didn’t allow over three earned runs in an outing, going 4-1 with a 1.80 ERA with 65 strikeouts in 45.0 innings in his final nine games.