About an hour before the scheduled start of the Orioles' game Sept. 5, the team made an announcement that many fans were eager to hear.
The Orioles were bringing 22-year-old outfielder Austin Hays to the major leagues.
Hays, who was the team's third-round draft choice in 2016 and is the favorite to be named the Orioles' Minor League Player of the Year, becomes not only the first member of his draft class to make it to the majors, but he also got there before all the Orioles' draftees from 2014 and 2015.
