This spring training, everyone at the Orioles’ Ed Smith Stadium complex has been introduced to a new baseball sound, one that could soon make its way to Camden Yards: The noise Samuel Basallo ...

An elbow injury last spring meant catcher Samuel Basallo was on the periphery of his first major league spring training. This time around, the 20-year-old’s involvement in camp will be the ...

Basallo went 1-for-3 with a three-run triple in Friday's Grapefruit League game against Detroit. Basallo added to a promising start to spring training with a bases-clearing triple in the first ...

The sounds of baseball are as universally recognized as the game itself. The sound of a ball smacking perfectly in the pocket of a catcher’s mitt. A batter digging his cleats into the dirt.

One of their more exciting players has yet to join the 40-man roster, though. Samuel Basallo is Baltimore's No. 2 ranked prospect heading into this season. The catcher was signed by the Orioles in ...

Basallo is the talk of Orioles camp. The physically imposing, baby-faced 20-year-old is the best catching prospect in baseball, and he’s looked like it through the first four days of spring ...