Center fielder Slater de Brun, chosen by the Orioles with the 37^th overall pick in this year’s draft, draws comparisons to Arizona’s two-time All-Star Corbin Carroll based on his tools and stature.

There’s also got to be a musical comp for de Brun, who’s a duel threat as a baseball player and musician/producer.

The 5-foot-10 de Brun carries big aspirations on and off the field. He goes by “Lil Slayyy” when he’s in music mode, putting out country singles like “Break My Heart” and “Find Me a Bar” – the irony, of course, being that he’s too young to get served.

“Music is like an outlet for me, it’s a creative outlet for me, and it helps me get my thoughts not on paper but out of my head,” he said last week at Camden Yards. “Also, I like when people listen to my music because it shows that I’m like a vulnerable person. I’m not just a baseball player but I’m more than that. So I think it probably brings more people around me, I would hope, and that’s why I like music.

“We have time on our hands right now in the afternoons in Sarasota, so there’s a lot of extra time in professional baseball and you’ve got to fill that doing productive things, and for me, that’s a very productive thing.”

The music can reflect the emotions that de Brun is experiencing. He doesn’t know many songs that relate them to baseball.

“It’s a lot,” said de Brun, whose mother had him playing piano and signing at an early age. “I’m an 18-year-old kid living by myself, trying to learn how to live life like an adult without college, so there’s a lot with that, and I think music’s a good outlet to kind of release some of that anxiety.”

Having the Orioles select him in the competitive balance round was “a life change,” de Brun said, “but a life change that I wanted and a life change I was ready for.” He didn’t make his professional debut, his last games played at Summit High School in Bend, Oregon.

“I’ve been training nonetheless (in Sarasota) and I kind of got in the rhythm pretty quick,” he said. “I’m just happy to be there.”

Vanderbilt University had a commitment from de Brun but couldn’t get him on campus.

“It was extremely hard to say ‘no’ to them,” he said.

“Deciding factor was, my dream is to be a big leaguer and I want to start that process as soon as possible and get up here as soon as possible, and I felt like this was the best route to do that. … They have players past and present on this roster that are very similar in profile to me, so I felt confident that they know my profile and are able to develop a player like me.”   

de Brun batted .370/.586/.603 with nine doubles, a triple, two home runs, 26 RBIs and 22 stolen bases in 29 games during his senior season. He’s a 65-grade runner and 60-grade fielder who put in extra work with coaches on his defense in Sarasota.

“In high school and just in the amateur baseball level, you think you’re good at defense, but you’re playing at a different game speed,” he said. “The game speed is way slower in amateur baseball. Here, the baserunners are always looking to take an extra base, so your transfers have to be faster, your throws have to be more pure. Everything is just faster. And I thought I was good at defense going in, and I was not, so I’ve really worked on all the little things.”

* Interim manager Tony Mansolino provided some injury updates yesterday for the assembled media in Toronto.

Catcher Adley Rutschman is close to beginning a rehab assignment as he recovers from a strained right oblique. He’s got time to return before the season ends.

Reliever Shawn Dubin, placed on the 15-day IL yesterday, will undergo tests Monday on his right elbow. His season is over and Mansolino said there is “concern.”

Dean Kremer, who left his last start with right forearm discomfort, should get back on the mound later this week.

* Tomoyuki Suguno will make his next start against the Yankees at Camden Yards. The teams play a four-game series beginning Thursday and running through the weekend.

Sugano doesn’t have to face the opposing starter, but he’s pitched opposite a 200-game winner in his last three outings – the Giants’ Justin Verlander, the Dodgers’ Clayton Kershaw and the Blue Jays’ Max Scherzer. Dave Schmidt is the only other Orioles starter to do it, in 1987 against the Twins’ Bert Blyleven (twice) and Joe Niekro, per the Elias Sports Bureau.

Sugano is the first with three different starters.

The last major league pitcher was Washington’s Jason Bergmann from Sept. 25, 2007-April 3, 2008 against Tom Glavine and Jamie Moyer (twice). The Marlins’ Scott Olsen is the most recent in the same season in September 2006 against Moyer and Glavine (twice).

The Orioles keep seeing top starters in every series, with the Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani and the Pirates’ Paul Skenes in the mix.

* I mentioned earlier that Mansolino became the fifth Orioles manager to post a winning record in his first 100 career games with the club. He was 51-49 going into the weekend Pirates series, which the Orioles swept.

The other four managers are Hank Bauer and Earl Weaver at 61-39, Joe Altobelli at 59-41 and Buck Showalter at 53-47. Weaver and Showalter did it over multiple seasons.

I asked Gunnar Henderson about Mansolino’s work as interim manager.

“Obviously, it was tough in the beginning, but I feel like he just kind of gave it to us pretty honest and got us back to playing loose in a sense and just going out there and playing freely, and I feel like that’s freed up a lot of guys to play their best ball. And I feel like that’s been showing out there,” Henderson said.

“Obviously, I spent a lot of time with him infield-wise and obviously now as the manager. He’s been nothing but awesome for me, and I know a lot of guys, they say the same about him. I feel like he’s e a very deserving candidate and I’d love to see him back.”