SARASOTA, Fla. – Samuel Basallo won’t make the club out of spring training. He never stood a chance. He didn’t report thinking that it could happen. That isn’t why he’s here again.

The Orioles want Basallo to experience a full slate of workouts after he reported last February with a stress fracture in his elbow. They want to keep him near Adley Rutschman and Gary Sánchez, bench coach and former catcher Robinson Chirinos and catching instructor Tim Cossins, absorbing as much as he can hold.

“I want him to get the experience of major league camp,” manager Brandon Hyde said yesterday. “Last year, he was here but he wasn’t playing, so getting into some major league spring training games behind the plate, getting at-bats against major league spring training arms. And just kind of soaking it in a little bit.

“And then being in groups with the guys he’s in groups with that are having good seasons in the major leagues. Just him being around and taking it all in. He’s getting a lot of at-bats. I’m going to play him.”

Basallo is receiving the most attention in the first week of anyone who isn’t competing for a job. He’s one of the top prospects in baseball and he’s only 20 years old, so he wasn’t going to sneak in and out each day. But his batting practices, work behind the plate, size and maturity also get him noticed.

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The Orioles are reported to have interest in reliever Ryan Brasier, 36, with his market also including the Cardinals, Rangers, Dodgers, Angels and Cubs. He isn’t the starting pitcher that executive vice president/general manager Mike Elias has tried to procure. He doesn’t appear to be a necessity with the club holding so many relief options.

Elias indicated on the final day of the Winter Meetings that he’d monitor other opportunities with relievers, whether through a trade or signing, but the urgency seemed to be fading after the Orioles signed closer Craig Kimbrel.

"There's room for more, but I would feel like this group now stacks up really well around the league with what we have now," Elias said in Nashville. "We also have the possibility depending on how our rotation pursuits and our rotation competition goes in Sarasota, that some of the talented guys we have in that mix could spill over into the 'pen.