Arms on the Farm wraps for the 2023 season with Seth Johnson, whose return to the mound in August gave the Orioles yet another fascinating young pitcher to watch.

Rare is the field manager who gets to see a rebuilding process through from the losing years to the winning ones, but Hyde is one of them.

Competing for a championship was always the near-term goal of this rebuild, though that was obscured at times by the fact that for years nothing seemed to be getting better for the Orioles on the major league side.

Orioles batting practice pitcher Rubén Francisca has shown the two most desired qualities for someone in his role: the ability to throw strikes, and the ability to throw for hours on end.

Félix Bautista has reason to trust the Orioles, and Mike Elias has evidence that pitchers can be effective after a UCL injury. But fans should still be cautious when they envision what’s next for the All-Star closer.

No team entered Thursday with more wins than the Orioles’ 34 since the All-Star break, and they’ve been winning at a .680 clip since the beginning of July.

There’s no blanket skill set the Orioles seek, but there are plenty of common traits among their top pitching prospects.

The Orioles will spend the weekend in Arizona, where Santander has tasted success before.

Adley Rutschman was fated for greatness as soon as the Orioles selected him, but Gunnar Henderson — taken out of high school — represented more of a gamble. Could the O's develop young talent into top-level players? The answer, increasingly, appears to be yes.

Ryan Mountcastle, Austin Hays, Anthony Santander and Cedric Mullins have helped steady the Orioles with their veteran presence — but they’ve also taken turns carrying the offense as talented, but young, players find their way.

It will require scans and doctors to determine the prognosis for the All-Star closer. No such expertise is needed to explain how daunting a stretch run without The Mountain would be.

Even after an up-and-down start Tuesday, this much is clear: Grayson Rodriguez is ready for a high-pressure role in the playoffs. He and Kyle Bradish should give Baltimore the type of 1-2 punch teams need to succeed in October.

A run of strong performance has helped Beavers to an .833 OPS over two levels in his age-21 season, a debut representative of the talent the Orioles acquired with the 33rd pick of last year’s draft out of Cal.

The right-hander has struck out 35.7% of the batters he’s faced at High-A Aberdeen, with a 15.6% swinging strike rate.

Now, a generation of Orioles pitchers receive the same benefits on a broader scale from the same crew Means worked with five years ago.

Orioles CEO John Angelos chose Mike Elias to lead baseball operations nearly five years ago and, while clearly constraining him from a budgetary standpoint, has mostly allowed him to operate as he sees fit without ownership interference. Should Angelos do this for the rest of the business?

Ryan Mountcastle had to step away from the game for an unexpected reason. He used the downtime to reset, and then worked his way back as a better hitter by focusing on the Orioles’ swing-decision philosophy.

Baltimore was always unlikely to give up a top prospect, and Mike Elias showed once again that the plan is to build with young talent — not use prospects to acquire help.